Every moderator and admin is going to come upon this choice. It's a guarantee when you start a forum that their are going to be members that are troublesome, that spam and ones that you will need to ban. For a successful forum there will always be bumps in the road. However some forum admin's make big mistakes when they ban there users. Thats what prompted this guide by me, I've been banned for wrong things and I can honestly say I've banned (once) for the wrong reasons as well. When To Ban. - When a user has posted pornographic imaging/ Child Porn or any illegality - Spammed your site at all - Broken your rules over 10 times unless these are major rules - Is offending other users - Constantly Swearing - Contribution nothing to the community When NOT to Ban This is the best part. - For Personal Reasons.. If "bob" yelled at you at school yesterday.. Why ban him from a site it has nothing to do with it - Because you don't like them - When you do that it shows that your not professional and makes others notice your attitude about your site - For critiques - Don't ban a member for complaining about a part of your site. I hope you enjoyed my article. I liked writing it. (Remember if you like this you can order my Writing Service )
Good article but I think it reflects bad on you to consider banning people who do bad with one reason is they not donate... it kinda seems like you see good members as ones who donate and bad as ones who dont. Myself, whether you donate or not, if you do something bad enough to get banned, your gonna get my 14" cyber boot in your arse LOL
You ban people for not financially contributing to your forum?? I'm sorry but that's a really bad reason to ban someone and that comment throws your whole article into a big negative black hole for me.
This "article"(if you can even call it an article) really seems that it's targeted to one small portion of the admins and the greedy part of them. I personally won't ban if they're constantly swearing, people who talk to me a lot know that I am a sailor mouth. ^^ If a person doesn't contribute it's what they want, you shouldn't ban because they don't give you money, as long as they're posting, they're contributing enough. Seems to be a poorly written "article", if you could even call it that.
What I never put a dollar sign in there. I mean when they contribute nothing to the forum guys. Holy! ---------- Post added at 04:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:41 PM ---------- I put contribute 0. Like there posts have no value to the forum. My Gosh! Umm no I mean contribute to the forum with there posting. I did not mean money. Oh My Gosh. I think this post was edited. ?
Ok, It was a typo I would say.. I meant contributing nothing.. I hope you guys forgive me for the typo. Fixed it.
Add exactly to that line what you MEAN by no contribution. Put examples. Don't make people read this entire thread to see what you intended. Incidentally, I confirm that initially it stated as: $0 Therefore, all the posts responding to it did NOT misinterpret it at the time.
I cannot trust the quality of any article when the writer cannot use the words 'there' and 'their' correctly. It may seem harsh, but when the author is selling their services, extremely basic schoolboy errors are unacceptable.
I have some issues with that. I forgot to run this article through spell check. This does not reflect my article writing and you cannot expect perfection in every post I make on every site. I'm sure with all of you that every post you make is completely grammatically correct and perfect in every way. Cheers! Caleb
No, but there is a difference between a post and an article. You chose to post this here as an article and therefore we should expect perfection in your writing style. If you wanted to be let off on small errors you should have posted this in Managing Members where it would have been far more appropriate. But calling a thread you make an article means you will be held up to higher standards than if you'd have just called your thread and thread and posted it as such. ..and if you're going to publish an article there is no excuse for not using spellcheck.
Sorry mate, but I'm going to take issue with this. Spell check is fine, but it will not distinguish between 'there' and their' for correct usage. Every post I make is correct and perfect as I take care over what I post. OK, occasionally a typo sneaks through but hey, I'm not charging for posts. If I was charging for posts, articles or anything else, I would make damn sure that I was word perfect.
Thanks Barry.. Thanks Guys. Heres the deal. I'll write a great article for you guys tonight. Professional Quality and publish it free in the articles section. I will spell check, look over and make sure its perfect. But, In return I would ask that you guys rate my article writing service and others based on that article and decide whether to purchase based on that. Cheers, Caleb
