What do you have to do to get banned from WF?

You're making it sound too scary, like everyone has to walk on egg shells all the time. I seriously doubt anyone gets banned for anything close to 30 days for doing something accidentally, once. You have to work pretty hard at it to get a long ban like that. Read the rules and use common sense and most likely the worst that'll happen is you get a thread or two deleted for some reason.

Only a few days, no biggie. as for the time, that was US time, not AUS!

Though when it comes to all this banning stuff, I mean come, really, it doesn't matter that much... just run your business as *you* will run your business - you need to brand yourself as someone here to has a personality and isn't afraid of showing it; just don't go out of your way to belittle others in your quest for greatness - at all times show respect, if not for others then certainly for yourself.

The WF is just one marketplace of many; never let your "business" be solely reliant upon it.

Paul Barrs

I think you missed the joke

Red, You may not have used those exact words. It's been a while. I consider all angry "Why was my thread deleted" posts to be "freedom of speech" rants, and you were quite angry. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't remember it clearly enough to even recall it was you, much less the whole sequence.

There was something in the posts that made me think, "This is a reasonable person who's frustrated, not some self-entitled schmuck who's going to be a problem forever." That's why the ban was temporary. I'll take your word for that. That's the one detail I wasn't sure was you.

I can definitely believe you were in axe-wielding mode, though.


Paul

And that Belknap guy, of course, who is half cue-ball ...

Thomas, Depending on who you listen to, we are too [strict|lenient], too [quick to ban|slow to ban], biased toward or unfair to [buyers|sellers], [heads|tails] on any other issue you can think of.

It's part of moderating. You can't expect to make yes/no decisions about people's dealings every day for years without knowing there will be a lot of people who will disagree.

Comments like James', though, go beyond simple disagreement.


Paul

Fluff,

This is an ongoing problem. We often go into a thread to check on a reported problem and see the sorts of "What the *#&$ is wrong with the mods? Why hasn't this been shut down?" comments, and not a single one of the people making them has bothered to report the problem.

For some newer folks, that's understandable. They don't know about the member moderation functions. This is especially likely in the WSO section, where we see a lot of people who don't comment in the discussion areas. But some of these folks know exactly how it works. You can tell when you see reports from them all week long, whining about how somebody left a negative (and civil) review of their product.

One guy, who's close to being removed from the forum for it, regularly reports the same post 4 or 5 times over the course of a day.

And then, there's always the flip side. People who report something and expect that we will immediately ban someone based on an unsupported allegation. Quite often, these turn out to be deliberate distortions of what happened, outright lies, or serious misreadings of what someone may have said.

Or they just didn't get their refund within 15 minutes of having asked, at 5 AM on a Sunday in the seller's time zone...

But, we have the members who help by reporting the problems they see. Those are the folks who make it possible to keep this place running. Without all those extra eyes, there would be pure chaos in next to no time.


Paul