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Originally Posted by SquawkVFR
Out of curiosity, what kind of warning other than written can you dispense? I’m a little frightened by that.
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The following are my ways of handling situations... This is not universal.... Rule 13 of the rules of posting....
There's a public warning, the PM warning and the official warning... Technically all of them are written but two are less formal....
The public warning is usually for me a suitable comment related to the thread... and then I'll move the thread to the proper location and mention that part in the comment as well.
The second warning, the pm is a courteous comment to the person with direction to consider where they post threads....
The last one is a formal warning infraction with what they did wrong and potential future infraction penalties....
These are all specific to and determined by the individual moderator.... We do support each others decisions...
Further penalties are bans for predetermined days or days decided by the moderator... or a potential permanent-ban.....
Since multiple accounts are not permitted, we can usually count on trouble makers to start a new account within a few days, often within hours.... We will usually find these within hours or days as well.... It all depends on the individual.... Some are savvy and hang around with a second account for quite a while... Others, I've banned a few, with a note in their signature comments about why they were banned before they receive their email notification.
I moved one the other day literally three days ago, and sent the guy a pm.... He fired a nasty pm back to me asking why I didn't edit out the bad parts and save the thread.... There are roughly 200,000 members on three sites and 15 of us.... I'm not editing anyones post that cant read the rules and follow them... well not someone with all of "1" post....I fired back and copied the site owner and another moderator... His leash is very short, like I have a hand on the collar....
If a member I know is pushing buttons I might edit out forbidden parts and mention it, or laugh and they laugh with me.... Or... go to the above if needed.... Most times, they realize I'm just another guy trying to keep the size friendly and user compatible....
First and foremost, I'm a Camaro owner and enthusiast... I joined this site just like everyone else.... Very early on, I even had a thread that devolved a bit and it was locked... I think it's still on here.... so after about two years, I was contacted by another moderator via personal phone and asked if I would be willing to assist in moderating the site, so here I am.... but I'm still an enthusiast and owner operator of a Camaro...