How people get banned:

Step 1. Either someone clicked the report member button on someone’s page, or sent me a message reporting someone. In either case, the admin or I will check for proof. This can be given by the victim in the form of a screen shot- you make a screen shot by pressing the Prt Scr button on your keyboard, which will make a copy of a portion of your screen, which you can open using MS paint or other graphic editing programs such a photoshop, paint shop pro, or painter. You upload the image to photobucket.com or imageshack.org and send it to me.

Step 2. If we find proof or are sent proof we will give the reported user a warning. Why? Because some people just make mistakes, are dim towards the site’s etiquette standards, or simply need the warning in order to behave in a way that allows this site to remain open to all ages. Anyway, we give the warning UNLESS the user has posted pornographic images, is making a member feel extremely unsafe- including asking that member for sex, a photo, a full name, a phone number, or an address-, has threatened to kill someone, or is attacking someone based on race, religion, gender preference, or age.

Any and all members doing such things will have their accounts deleted permanently.

Step 3. If the reported user has been issued a warning and continues to break rules then they will be banned. If they were just using foul language then the banning may be short for a first offense. If they continue their behavior the banning period won’t get longer… they’ll simply lose their accounts forever. The end. No pleas from friends and family, no rallies against the staff member who banned that person.

In fact, harassing staff members is just a good way to get that person in even MORE trouble. Why invite a member back when they’ve encouraged their friends to disrespect a staff member? The staff is here to make this site as great as we can, while keeping it as safe as we can. It’s hard work to moderate this site and even harder work to admin it, and thus we deserve appreciation. If you don’t like us or our rules, then kindly leave the site we work so hard to maintain.

We’re not a corporation. So before you start yelling “WHY WAS MY FRIEND BANNED FOR NO REASON” and calling names and saying you want staff members to die or that they are scary, think about the fact that we are just people like you. And even consider what you would do if a member who had always followed the rules and was praised as such a kind person was suddenly messaging you saying their mom or dad or legal guardian was not going to allow them to be on the site any more.

When you ask why, you get to hear their guardian yell at you about the language on the site, or the bullying, the death threats, the constant chatter about suicide that makes it sooo common it’s like you’re insane not to kill yourself when you miss the bus on a rainy day and have to walk. So that member who has done absolutely nothing wrong has to leave. What would you do? What would you do if you got messages like that EVERY DAY?

--Eve. Your friendly Drawing Now moderator