Question Thread

[Bee]

Thanks for all your help, Naj and TruBlu. That makes sense

[lillyrush1977]

Oct 23, 2009 21:35:43 GMT -5 Trublu said:

Oct 23, 2009 7:13:03 GMT -5 Bee said:

I have a question!

How does someone get a "warning level" or "banned"? Because I noticed that one of the longterm posters here (I haven't visited in a while) has been banned, but I clicked on that person and I didn't see any posts of an inappropriate manner. Not questioning your judgement, mods, just wondered!

Hi Bee,

Since I've been administrator, I've set up a protocol for how we handle issues that arise. Said protocol is the same no matter if the member has posted a lot, or posts a little. That protocol includes discussion among the staff members about appropriate consequences for actions that break our rules (which are linked around the forum), and also we remove the offending posts. Reason being is that they aren't conducive to a productive forum environment, hence why they are against the rules in the first place. We do keep them as "evidence" of sorts, just in case a member escalates.

When a person is breaking our rules, they are contacted extensively before they are warned, and still more before banning ever occurs, and banning is for extreme cases only, where the member is destructive to the community.

I was wondering about this myself. Glad I looked around the forum! Awesome job by the way TruBlu!