It's not a bad list, as far as it goes. That said, I've moderated forums before, some of them for the better part of a decade - That ruleset is way too wordy to

It's not a bad list, as far as it goes. That said, I've moderated forums before, some of them for the better part of a decade - That ruleset is way too wordy to be effectively applied, IME of various sets of rules. Probably not at any great damage, because I expect people to deal with it the way they do must such rules, i.e. make a good faith effort while largely ignoring them. You have, maybe, three or four points that you can really pick out when you're giving people rules, preferably not in prose but in bullet point form, and the rest of it's down to how people conduct themselves in the community and how your moderators interact with people when they go wrong. People are not going to be constantly checking their posts against a big list of things they barely remember. Ideally you want to get it down to one overarching rule, like don't be a dick, with a handful of examples of what dickish behaviour is; what the tone of your specific forum would be. You really have to keep this stuff very concise. Explanations for why each rule is there can, if necessary, be included further down; underneath the short summary that you want everyone to have read. Personally I've never found much need for such explanations, that's more something you'd do in PM if someone was questioning them - by and large people seem to understand well enough from examples.