Puppy Pride Ban Procedure

Please note these apply ONLY to the official Puppy Pride chat rooms. All other rooms will follow their own policies and you should refer to the room admin's for them

If someone is causing problems, or you believe that you are being subjected to abuse or harassment by another individual on either on the website on the chat then this is how the issues WILL be sorted.

Step 1: Whoever believes that they are being subjected to abuse needs to contact one of the admins.
Step 2: The admin will need to collect evidence of this abuse, including but not limited to; screen shots from group chats, screen shots from personal chats with abuser, and public messages on the website or other public areas.
Step 3: The admin will then collate the information and provide an overview to the Alpha pack, this is a group with all the admins in.
Step 4: The Alpha's will review all evidence and decide upon the seriousness of the accusation, and will then vote upon the action that should be taken.
Step 5: The users are both told, privately, the decision that was decided on.

Actions normally follow the steps of;

First written warning,
Second written warning,
Temporary ban from 1-4 weeks,
Permanent ban.

In serious cases the Alphas may decide to skip steps if they feel like it might be necessary to maintain and friendly environment.

Serious case examples; homophobic abuse, hetrophobic abuse, xenophobic abuse, repeated death threats, anything illegal.

Anyone under 18 will be banned until their 18th birthday, this does NOT require discussion with other Alpha's and will be enacted immediately.

In the case of a serious breach of the peace in the chat, all members partaking in the issue can be temporary removed from the chat group for a period of no more then 24 hours while the Alphas discuss the issue, and to allow those members to calm down.

Alphas seen not to follow the correct procedures will lose their admin privileges. Only members of the Alpha pack will be granted Admin privileges.