No moderation is permanent, all members who get moderated can undo their own damage and its not by apologising or the like, its simply undoing what they did wrong in the first place. Prove otherwise, prove you can follow rules and work within the community and not against it as a whole.
A member won't go into moderation challenging me, arguing with me or telling me their two cents.... it all slides off me and I don't mind good healthy debate. What I do mind though is when an individual takes upon themselves to create or do their own thing outside of the forum general rules. This is why I minimised rules back to a bare basics level, so there are common rules that apply to us all, and outside of those go hard as I acknowledge what PTSD is and what it entails.
Very rarely would I ever ban someone, again, as mentioned in the bec thread I was the least likely person to do such, instead it was another who wanted to ban a person. Spammers get banned immediately, no issue with that one. A person who argues with me doesn't get banned or moderated. A person who comes on the forum as a troll, in other words, they try and disrupt the forum entirely towards all members, they will be moderated.
Members will typically not ever require to be moderated unless they break some basic rules, such as:
- Posting here in anger constantly
- Posting here when drunk or drugged constantly
- Posting here where the posts are so hard to read they disrupt thread topics
- Fail to comply with the basic rules of grammar, spelling, linking, etc.
- Lie, cheat or be deceptive in nature to me or members surrounding issues (not trauma therapy obviously)
No member need be an A+ speller, as you can use tools such as Firefox with a dictionary that will help you, thus negate the issue for the most part. I compensate for that, I provide links to the tools to help members who struggle in those areas, I have lessened rules to a bare minimum so the community as a whole is more relaxed and easy.
So in essence, very rare for a member to be moderated or banned, unless that member wants to be an individual and not follow simple community rules.