Hey everyone,
The October to February period is the busiest period in the TCLA forum. I wanted to use this opportunity to flag how the TCLA team can help you if a user is acting inappropriately:
Our terms and rules can be found
here, which includes any personal attacks on users, from the language they use to posts that are deliberate attempts to anger other users. A user's first offence leads to a warning, followed by a temporary ban and a permanent ban. If the offence is a serious breach of our terms and rules, it will lead to an immediate ban.
We take a harsh stance because there is no place for users who put other people down in this community. This is a community for providing support and advice and there are other communities they can go to if they want to do this.
Now, during this time of the year, we always see one or two users with provocative posts. They are dismissive of other people, deliberately provocative in the language they use and arrogant, often with the thought process of 'the legal journey is tough, everyone else is being too nice, so
I need to be the one to point this out'. They also come in with many assumptions about what they feel the profession is actually like and present this as a truth.
With this in mind, you can really help
@Jessica Booker,
@axelbeugre and I to identify these posts by reporting any language or behaviour that falls foul of our terms and rules. To do this, simply hit the report button underneath a post and we are notified. If this takes place through private messages, you can also private message
@Jessica Booker or
@axelbeugre with the details and we will take action.
Thank you very much. I would stress that I feel very lucky that 99% of our community is so kind-hearted and supportive of one another. I want to make sure that we are doing our part in supporting you and keeping it that way.