I didn't report my team's outgoing transfers because I didn't know I needed to :)
I suggest, if that's important to you, to make separate forum thread for transfers where each team can have it's post (like regular season schedule post) where we could edit every transfer, and you would have it all easily accesible.
It's not a lot of work since we make almost no transfers at all, everyone would know it should be done because of the separate thread.
Sometimes info gets lost in a lot of text, it's easy to miss. I have no time to read long responses on forum, so let's keep important stuff as short as possible.
Other soultion is to have separate thread where there would be only important info, in short sentences, easy to read and accessible at every time, where you could write when you need some info.
This message wasn't written in a spirit of trying to throw anyone under the bus by trying to say you're no good as you didn't do it, so all please remember that. It's just necessary to remind everyone of it now.
And I also said it because I wouldn't want to start enforcing penalties on this, if possible. On these "absolutely non-critical" things, it's often times good to with softer route to begin with, and give managers chance to correct their habits. (Like you mentioned, you didn't even know of this though).
And yes, I know that's a challenge that there is lots of information, and no way to easily distinguish extra important information from "basic" information/guides. (On the other hand, what is basic information anyway, and what's important? I guess most of the rules are important, because that's what keeps running HGL as it is - everything affects everything to some extent, and I've tried to not create rules/practices that have 0% reason/meaning behind them).
It is unfortunate that we have to deal with handling everything through forum and BBMails. ((If it would be on a separate website, then it would be easier to make it more user friendly (given that one would know how to create such site)).
Neither of these are especially user friendly, either to "owner" of the thread (there is 0 WYSIWYG-type of editing possibilities where you could just easily change locations, not to mention by doing that by dragging and dropping, etc.) or to user.
However, while I understand you and actually agree with your reasoning and point, I'm very hesitant creating even more HGL threads, especially for something that isn't requiring lots of entries.
And informing of transers is just one small part of HGL, so with the same logic we would have to have several extra threads (and based on some feedback, already two separate threads are sometimes thought to be too much - I don't think so though)...
I think we can follow the same procedure as until now; when you do get rid of player (fire, sell) or buy back one of your previous players, you just simply send message on either of two Official HGL Threads, Scores or Main Thread. That way, it will be easily enough accessible, if everyone would for example start their message with *HGL player transfer announcement*, or somewhat similar statement like that.
I believe this "informing of transfers"-requirement will be mostly solved as soon as managers know about it. However, I do remember that some manager(s) haven't done this on earlier season(s) either, so let's assume this reminder given again corrects the issue for good.I'm working on keeping important stuff as short as possible, but on the other hand, I want to be comprehensive enough so that things don't get delayed (or that I'd have to login to BB constantly to see if someone has presented questions due to my inadequate quide on doing something) because guide hasn't been comprehensive enough.
But problem is also, how to distinguish "important" stuff from less important stuff, as I'll keep also writing long, not "essential" posts. Using forums, no easy solution in sight...