# Hide 'Welcome to the forums' for admin user. Make reading it mandatory

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-welcome-to-the-forums-for-admin-user-make-reading-it-mandatory/28669>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [12 مايو 2015، 12:55ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-welcome-to-the-forums-for-admin-user-make-reading-it-mandatory/28669 "2015-05-12T00:55:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![kensims](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@kensims](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kensims)\
**Post date:** [13 مايو 2015، 3:47ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-welcome-to-the-forums-for-admin-user-make-reading-it-mandatory/28669/3 "2015-05-13T03:47:26Z")

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> [@AmiAthena](#):
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> I do like the idea of pushing the guidelines a little harder. A depressing number of people just plain don’t read them. I just picked a random user who has trust level 3 on the forum I moderate and he does not have the badge for having read the guidelines. That seems weird to me.

Are your guidelines short?

There **was** an issue where if the guidelines were short enough that the whole thing would fit in the viewport with no scrolling, the badge would not be granted. I **think** that was fixed, but of course that wouldn’t grant badges retroactively.

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