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Banning and Censorship - Firstly, we require that members read our rules before they begin posting. We make this abundantly clear at every step of the way.
- Members who do not read -- or adhere to -- the rules, are putting themselves at greater risk of being banned by default.
Who can ban me? - The site administrators and all members of The ‘Management Team’ have the power to ban/suspend members and adjust censorship.
- For a complete list of the management team see elsewhere.
- Depending on who is doing the banning, there are variations on how "harshly" a situation might be judged.
- The Management Team have full permission to ban members at their own discretion, although 99.9% of the time, the issue will be discussed in the moderator area before enacting it.
- To date it has been usual practice for the site administrators to enact the ban - and so far as I am aware, has been performed solely by the website administrators.
Why was I banned? - This is quite an open question and deep down you probably know the reason. Banning someone from the site is something that is only done after careful consideration.
- On many occasions, we'll give someone a warning. And mostly, it'll be done in the form of a Private Message. On some occasions, especially if the staff member in question feels that the member doesn't have a lot of potential for improvement - a ban might be immediately enacted.
- Ultimate Bass reserves the right to ban/censor anyone without warning or reason.
- Typical examples are:
- Bad conduct within our message board/chat room
- Consistently arguing with a moderator or member of our community
- Offering sexual services
- Defamation & Illegal conduct
- We will also ban members should it be discovered that they have been banned from another website - or behaved in such a manor that they no longer share the philosophy of Ultimate Bass.
- Of course there are many other reasons, too many to mention here.
- Should you find yourself banned then you are bound by our usual terms and conditions that you agreed to when registering to use www.ultimatebass.com.
May we remind you of the following: - You must not attempt to bypass an issued ban.
- Further abuse will lead to your ISP being informed for site abuse.
Why wasn’t I contacted? - Ultimate Bass is a community of more than 1,000 people and publishes thousands of posts a month. A Moderator may have to deal with a handful of issues a day. Therefore it is increasingly difficult for us to send a message to someone with an elaborate ban warning as our membership numbers increase. It's not realistic.
If you've violated the rules that you agreed to (by default) when you registered...then there's really not much point in you being here. Of course, there are occasions where someone is banned by accident or too quickly. But these instances are incredibly rare. I have only ever un-banned maybe a handful of people, in the site's history.
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