The thing is that if popups or whatever egregiously annoying method of making people visually notice the rules are overdone, they'll be ignored even more readily than they already are. The last thing we want is for people's ad-blockers to block the rules because of how they were presented, and this is leaning towards "too much like pop-up ads for anyone's taste", even if they're important. No thanks.
I won't disagree that having a way to ensure people read the rules is a good thing, but shoving them in people's faces probably isn't the way.
ok i see what you are saying here but i didn't really mean it in that way i was trying to convey that there needs to be something that makes it catch their eye so to speak so whether it's a pop up type thing or the rule board will flash red