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I've noticed (and we've had quite a few complaints regarding it) that the forum has somehow created a small trend of slating customers doing their own jobs, other tradesmen asking for advice when they're not plumbers, people asking about training courses and advice on how to get into the plumbing trade, and even new plumbers being knocked-down somewhat.
I could pull up posts to back my findings, and mention names of repeat offenders. But I want to give you all the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't mean to be offensive or cause harm in any way.
Though now I've noted this, I want this to change.
There's a simple BE NICE rule in the forum rules that you've all agreed to. If you can't be nice to a member and help them out, don't reply to the thread.
I'll give it a day or two for people to get chance to read this message, and then I'll personally see that I take action against anybody offending other members, or breaking the rules.
Out of the three main popular forums we run, this is the least, and I can see why now I've spent a bit of time here going through some of the more recent threads.
It's a shame that a small number of members can have a such a big impact on a forum, but this place is a community-driven website and without people chipping in nicely, it can go downhill quickly.
Though I'd be quite happy to get rid of that small number of members and make the forum a nicer place for all those who do want to use it within the forum rules.
If you have any questions then please do respond to clear them up, you could end up getting your account removed permanently if you don't understand what I've said and do continue to break the forum 'Be Nice' rule.
Thanks to all for reading this, thanks to the nice members for being nice to others, and to those that are not so nice, take this as a warning, there will be no others.
Cheers
Oh, and the way to go about reporting a post that is offensive towards you is to click the report post icon which is in each post, which looks like this:
Responding to an offensive post directly within a thread yourself is just as costly moderation time wise as those that originally offended. So please DO NOT respond to anything offensive, and certainly don't agree with them as you too could end up having restrictions placed on your account.
Clearly this isn't something we just like doing, but it is something that does need doing. And it's all to simply keep the forum an attractive place to newer members as possible.
I could pull up posts to back my findings, and mention names of repeat offenders. But I want to give you all the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't mean to be offensive or cause harm in any way.
Though now I've noted this, I want this to change.
There's a simple BE NICE rule in the forum rules that you've all agreed to. If you can't be nice to a member and help them out, don't reply to the thread.
I'll give it a day or two for people to get chance to read this message, and then I'll personally see that I take action against anybody offending other members, or breaking the rules.
Out of the three main popular forums we run, this is the least, and I can see why now I've spent a bit of time here going through some of the more recent threads.
It's a shame that a small number of members can have a such a big impact on a forum, but this place is a community-driven website and without people chipping in nicely, it can go downhill quickly.
Though I'd be quite happy to get rid of that small number of members and make the forum a nicer place for all those who do want to use it within the forum rules.
If you have any questions then please do respond to clear them up, you could end up getting your account removed permanently if you don't understand what I've said and do continue to break the forum 'Be Nice' rule.
Thanks to all for reading this, thanks to the nice members for being nice to others, and to those that are not so nice, take this as a warning, there will be no others.
Cheers
Oh, and the way to go about reporting a post that is offensive towards you is to click the report post icon which is in each post, which looks like this:
Responding to an offensive post directly within a thread yourself is just as costly moderation time wise as those that originally offended. So please DO NOT respond to anything offensive, and certainly don't agree with them as you too could end up having restrictions placed on your account.
Clearly this isn't something we just like doing, but it is something that does need doing. And it's all to simply keep the forum an attractive place to newer members as possible.
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