New Rules to Prevent Arguments on the Forum

[EmzieAngel]

Great idea

[Changes]

Originally Posted by petforum

Yeah, healthy debate is fine, its just the petty arguments and bitching which we are trying to prevent. Save that for the playground and not the open forum.

Mark

There's a playgorund

lol

[kath123]

Great idea, and lets hope that is now the end of all the squabbling then.

Happy Pet forum. xx

[reddogs]

Well done mods, good call.

I had thought that some of the comments made by people were a little excessive, rude and unnecessary so I hope this stops them after all why pick a fight with someone you don't really know except on a forum.

You have to remember that once you have put something in to cyber space it does not go away and will come back to bite you at some stage in the future.

[rottiesloveragdolls]

Originally Posted by petforum

Hi All,

Recently we have noticed certain people who often start petty arguments on threads and take the threads off topic which ruins the thread and ends up getting it closed.

Please note that this will not be tolerated from now on and any arguments started on the open forum will be dealt with quickly to prevent it from happening again. For anyone who starts the argument and takes the thread off topic, they will firstly be given an infraction, if they continue, they will be given a 1 day ban as a cooling off period. After this ban, if they continue they will be given a 2 week ban and then a permanent ban from using the forum.

When a member is banned, any pm's from users to mods or admin regarding the ban will be ignored and any threads started as to why a member is banned will result in an infraction and then a ban for the thread starter and the thread will be deleted. Any decisions made to ban a user by admin or a mod should be respected.

Please note that these rules have been created to stop the petty arguments that have been hapenning on the forum which get out of control and put our visitors off joining this forum.

Many Thanks for your understanding
Mark

Originally Posted by Vixie

I would just like to add that anyone who is reported to be sending vile messages via pm to other members in order to bully them will also have the above infractions given then the stated bans if they continue, debate through pm's is fine trying to sort out your differences by pm is fine but under no circumstances if foul language or bullying allowed and if reported and the offending pm's found to brake the rules then we will have no option but to follow the new guidelines, hopefully this will make the whole forum a much happier and friendlier place from now on

thank you

well its about time something was done, pehaps now we can all get back to how it used to be, getting/givin advise helping each other, and having a laugh

[clueless]

Hopefully this will work. I do think though that if someone is being bullied via a PM it should be an instant ban Good Work

Originally Posted by clueless

Hopefully this will work. I do think though that if someone is being bullied via a PM it should be an instant ban Good Work

I agree

[shortbackandsides]

if someone is abusing the pm option and using it to intimidate couldnt that option be taken away from them?? but then saying that if they were banned it would be anyways
All good work mark and mods

[petforum]

Lets hope this makes people think twice before posting something nasty. After all, weve put these rules in place to prevent this, we dont want to have to ban anyone from the forum at the end of the day. We want people to enjoy themselves on here

[sequeena]

Thanks Mark, I hope this works!