Abrasive or just plain rude.......

[Deleted member 17779]

If you have someone on your forum who is rude or just abrasive on your forum, how do you handle that?

When I say that someone is rude or abrasive, I mean they typically rub people the wrong way in general.....

 

[StarbucksCoffee]

I'd go ahead and give them a warning. However, it depends on your forum polices. Usually a warning should be enough. You can tell them that you want to guarantee a great experience on your forum, and that their comments aren't really helping. Behind every post there's a real person, with emotions and feelings, so you could just tell them to keep it easy on others.

 

[Moonface]

I've rarely encountered it, but when I have had a user go out of their way to be rude it's normally been after smaller infractions already and they've just continued to escalate. I had one user who kept lighting fires under another member which then branched out to targeting more people and even myself, so I just banned them. I don't need the toll on my mental health to be babysitting someone who wants to act like an arse.

 

[Page]

Depends who they are aiming to regards a group of members or maybe they are just attacking one single member then whatever the outcome they ill be given messages stating the why and if it goes on too far they end up with warnings points or even a ban when they go higher then eight warnings

 

[Nomad]

There is something that I can not tolerate such as racism, gender-based discrimination, promotion of porn or drugs. I can allow the rest of the things in the name of free speech.

 

[Katrina]

I've had a few members who know how to skirt the rules line and can be rude without actually flaming. It's frustrating to members but I can't just give out warnings when a rule hasn't been violated, even if I don't like how the person is behaving. I try to be fair to everyone.

 

[zappaDPJ]

I mean they typically rub people the wrong way in general.....

Luckily that's a very rare occurrence on the forums I own and usually solved via a pm if it does happen.

I've had a few members who know how to skirt the rules line and can be rude without actually flaming.

I've recently encountered something similar on another forum I admin. For privacy reasons I can't go into any detail but it's created quite a dilemma for the entire staff that remains unresolved. It's one of the few times I just want the member to blatantly break the rules so I can ban them without repercussion.

 

[tahssa]

I usually try to give them a warning but if they keep it go to a ban and if they come back tell the itnernet provider to cancel there service

 

[Demon_skeith]

I've had one person on my site, dealt with others on other sites. They were usually well known members who came down on their luck and we tried to be fair with them, in the end they ended up banned 🙁

 

[Jay™]

I usually try to give them a warning

Do you have a site up?

 

[tahssa]

Nope Im still new to the forums but I was a mod of paltalk chatroom