Board Thread:Staff Only/@comment-5354013-20140612200023

Hi guys!

I just want to make clear the procedure for violations of policy, most notably, spam, vandalism and uploading unreleased material.

First, it is helpful to have a place for users who have been banned to have a place to go to talk to the admin who banned them. I would suggest that all of you create an account at Community Central and use your message wall there for that purpose.

2.  When you ban someone, make sure to check all the boxes. Being banned also means being unable to communicate with anyone here. They can still log in and read all the information, but are unable to edit or comment.

For Rollbacks, please write a warning on the offenders wall and if banning is necessary or you are unsure what to write,  please contact me.


 * Spam

If you see spam. go to the user's page and see if this is a first violation. If so, write a polite message asking them not to spam and warn them that any further occurrences may result in them being banned for a time. If they have been warned before and have now repeated the behavior, ban them for a reasonable length of time and write an explanation on their wall. Make sure to check all the boxes. They are not to communicate with anyone during their absence.

Unreleased Content

This is becoming a major problem. Again, make sure to warn the person so they know what they are doing is wrong. Delete the info or the image. If it happens again, ban them. Warnings are the way for other admins to know what has transpired in the past. It's very important since a different admin may see it and not be familiar with what happened before. Everyone should check the users contribs and investigate what has happened before this, just to make sure.

Vandalism

This requires no warning. Ban the person immediately and then write a brief explanation as to why they are banned (As if they didn't know, but we will do the correct thing anyway). Rollbacks, contact an admin ASAP if you see vandalism.

If you have questions, please post them here. That way we can all benefit from them.  