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urko View Drop Down
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    Posted: 07 September 2005 at 6:16am
Hey guys,

Just wanted to ask you something.

If you have a forum when do you bann users? Right away ( without warning ) if he makes a post where he's swearing, offeding others, or do you first send him a PM to warn him?

Reason why I'm asking you is that I was banned from one forum ( non related to this 1 ), where I only asked a question:
Do you have a problem with that?
I was reffering to his previous post.
He was a site admin that I was reffering to, so I got banned right away.

Also thing is that even though I also have a forum on my site I only banned 1 user so far and only cuz he was offending others , swearing all the time, etc...
Otherwise I always send a PM to a user and warn him about his posts and that in future he/she can be banned.

Anyway would appreciate your advise or thoughts
Urko
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Points: 3627 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dj air Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 September 2005 at 10:31am
i only ban iof they are spamming, repeatly.

or they really are out of order and told before via pm

it seems as they where an admin they didn't want you to show them up.

sort of abusing their powers.

my view not sure its valiud Wink
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Some admins are heavy handed and some are not.  I try not to be heavy handed, but I don't allow people to create problems either.
 
I almost got banned from one forum simply because I didn't realize I had a PM warning me!  He didn't want me to link to my website as he considered it competition.  I complied, but if I hadn't read the PM in time, I would have been permanently banned.
 
I prefer issuing temporary bans instead of permanent bans, unless they are really out of control.  But I usually can talk some sense to them and get them to behave.
 
But in the end, its like house rules.  In my house, its my rules.  Its the same with forums.  And people feel more welcome in certain forums than others as a result.
 
Create the atmosphere you want in your forum.  After all, its your forum. Smile
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Long time no see, what have you been up to?
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