Deletion Procedure

[Felice]

Forum URL: thenewoldie.proboards76.com

I am the admin of the above forum which is newly formed following deletion of an earlier forum, apparently for TOS violation.

I was not the admin of the deleted forum, so I am unaware of the actual circumstances. I am not asking about those circumstamces now.

Most of the active membership of the deleted forum has successfully transferred to my new forum - however I have been asked by my members to clarify the procedure leading up to deletion for a TOS violation.

1/ Presumably ProBoards cannot actively monitor the 100s of 1000s of forums, and therefore rely on forum admins to keep in good order?

2/ Assuming 1/ above to be correct, presumably ProBoards only become involved following a complaint or TOS-violation report?

3/ In the event of a TOS-violation by a member that the admin should reasonably know about, such as racist postings or pornography, is any warning given or is deletion virtually 'instant'. Is any warning that may be given directed to the admin, or to the member or members concerned.

4/ Is a warning given, and to whom, in the event of a TOS-violation that the admin could not have reasonably known about, such as posting of copy-righted pictures where the copy-right is not obvious.

5/ In the event of any warning being given by ProBoards, is it time-dependant such as "You have x hours to remove the violation, or deletion will automatically follow.

6/ Are warnings cumulative, i.e "3 strikes and you're out"?

Neither I, or my members are "looking to see how far we can go"! - more for information and interest, having been the fall-out from a deletion.

Thanks

[Ross]

The normal prodedure is that anyone can send in a Violation report via the proboards website. These reports are then read and followed up by ProBoards.com staff. If they find a violation they will do one of the following:
1. Remove the violation. Sometimes this happens if it's a fairly minor violation (like something posted by a guest) and there isn't any active staff
2. Instant deletion. Used for vioations where the staff of that forum were either involved or aware that it was a violation.
3. 72 Hour warning given to the main admin to rectify the problem. The time on this may vary depending on how extreme the violation is. However, if it seems that the main admin has not been online to even read that warning, then the time may be extended (eg. if they're on holiday)

That's the way I understand it anyway

[Felice]

Thanks Ross, for a comprehensive response.

I'll copy it back to my members.

[Martyn Dale]

An addition to that.

If its a minor violation and staff are not present, eg 1 post by a guest, just that would be removed (as stated above), but if there are constant violations (even small ones) as a result of no staff ever being present, its also going to result in the forum being deleted, an admin or mod not being present is not an excuse to have a forum with bad content