So the thing here, how can you have rules written down for players that don't know the rules and make them up from word of mouth from other players? While documenting what these rules are is one thing, you can't actually put them out as real rules of the game since the whole point to those made up rules is that they are made up by people who don't know the real rules and are half remembering what some drunk friends or their uncle taught them. There are already established pool rules that are the same in 99% of pool halls and tournaments, outside of break rules, that deal with what a legal shot is, what the punishment for a foul is, where balls get placed, what equipment is called, etc...
Actually making a set of bar rules is like a computer pro writing a document for computer use based on what people do often instead of the real things to do. If a bunch of people start deleting random files form a computer because it's running slow, and they tell 20 people that, is that a "rule" that one should follow? Common people don't have the knowledge or expertise to create new rules for something they don't understand, no matter what our new liberal "everyone is right in their own way" society tries to tell people.
I took at peek at the site, outside of some grammar issues, your is not the same thing as you're, the rules for calling a shot don't have anything to do with having to spot a ball that went in by accident, even in a standard pool table. If you make a ball in the wrong pocket, it does not spot back up, you just lose your turn.
There was a funny Onion article about a person that thought he can become an architect because he walked around a bunch of buildings and that was his experience, this is players that barely know how to hold a cue stick passing down misinformation to others. Until one can discuss the differences between different rails, cloth, ball sets, etc... there should be no talk about changing the rules, at least not for anything "official" that can be pointed to. Unofficial official rules can't possibly exist, outside of documenting them. Like old time medicines. No one thinks putting cocaine in products makes them cure anything now, but it should be documented as a historical thing that was done. Not talking about you specifically, but in general. Bar rules are bar rules just because they change based on where you are and from player to player. Any good player can play another good player and can assume they know the rules of the game. When we play some random people you can never be sure of what they think is OK to do or not. Imagine playing baseball and dealing with local rules in every town. They put 1st base where 3rd base is and you need to run the opposite way but they don't tell you that till after you hit the ball, there are 4 strikes not 3, that you can't touch the ball unless it hops 4 times on the ground, and only 4 times. If it hops once and stops then it's a home run. I don't like chaos in my rules.
This is the #1 reason I avoid playing with random people unless I can see that they actually know what they are doing, it's more trouble than it's worth to try to figure out what they have in their heads for rules.
