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Forum Moderation
Your friendly and supportive team of volunteer moderators do an amazing job to help and support you during your time on our forums.  Between them, they’re on duty 365 days a year helping to keep the forums safe, accurate and supportive in accordance with our community guidelines.

The moderating team do not have a clinical background, but have all experienced Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder first-hand or through loved ones, and between them they have over 25+ years of moderating experience.

Why we moderate
When moderating we endeavour to:
• Prevent any misleading or unhelpful information being posted.
• Prevent anyone misusing the OCD-UK forums or breaching the forum guidelines.

This means that sometimes we may edit or remove messages, but rest assured we will only do that if we have a good reason to.  Sometimes we may remove something in order to review it within the team, but will make the topic visible again if deemed appropriate to do so.

How we moderate
We don’t approve posts before they go live, we trust and respect our users to self-moderate. But what we will do:
 
  • Review the site every day for inappropriate posts.
  • Rely on our community to report anything you think is inappropriate.
  • Will remove without explanation anything that we feel is deliberately inappropriate.
  • On occasions we may make a topic invisible whilst we offer to work with the user to make their post more appropriate and family-friendly.

During our moderation we always bear in mind that people make mistakes, often born out of the frustration and desperation that OCD can cause, so we try to moderate with a light touch.

Sometimes we may feel a time-out is helpful for everyone, so we may lock topics overnight or suspend a user overnight to allow a cooling off period. We only issue permanent bans to users as a very last resort where we believe it is in the best interests of our forum community.
 
The OCD-UK forums are your space to talk about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and we want to protect your community but you can help us through self-moderation and by supporting our moderation.

Help us moderate
If you notice another member posting misleading information, misusing the site or breaking the terms and conditions in any other way, please contact a moderator by using the 'report post’ button in their message. You can also email the team directly using the ‘contact’ button at the top of the forum bar.   If you do report a post, we are not always able to explain exactly what action, if anything, was taken but rest assured that we do always review each and every report, usually within an hour of the report being made.
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