User blog comment:Pastamonster1/New here/@comment-4643170-20130105174635/@comment-5643552-20130105175610

The overwhelming majority of users don't even bother reading the front page. So yeah. A lot of people are just too lazy to check the rules, and then they complain that they "didn't know" when they are banned. This wouldn't be such a problem if people just read them.