You know, I have tried to give people information to help them in the forum where it will be read--on the following pageshttp://www.hatrack.com/writers/writers/index.shtml
http://www.hatrack.com/writers/writers/how-to-join.shtml
with
http://www.hatrack.com/writers/writers/how-groups-work.shtml
giving information on how to do an online critique group.
I don't know if people even read these pages.
Any guidelines posted here in the actual forum will disappear into the ether if the topic isn't kept current by additional posts.
Perhaps what I should do is start some kind of "Rules" topic (since the FAQ area doesn't seem to be getting much use) and take from the discussion of what the rules might be to come up with better introductory web pages to replace the ones linked to above.