# Pad, pad, pad

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pad-pad-pad/383556
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [September 22, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pad-pad-pad/383556 "2025-09-22T16:38:59Z")
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### Author: ![Bas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bas/32/294929_2.png) [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 7:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pad-pad-pad/383556/6 "2025-09-23T07:01:00Z")

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1. Warn
2. Suspend
3. Ban

That’s how you deal with misbehaving members.

The warning can be in public, friendly at first, but a strong moderator note at the end. Then you move to a warning PM.

If people don’t listen, chuck them out for a few days, that usually gets their attention.  
If afterwards they continue to waste your time / devalue your community, you just ban them.

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Or as said above, consider lowering the limit if that’s better for your community 🙂

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