Moderator Post

Dear Community Members,

We appreciate that not everyone has the same opinions or experiences, and it can be frustrating to see things that you don’t agree with being posted. We have noticed a lot of this happening across the Community recently, and we do understand that this can feel upsetting. 

However, I would like to take the opportunity to remind everyone about rule 4 of our Community: Be nice to one another and enjoy chatting with others. We encourage conversation and respectful debate; please be aware that individuals may give opinions which are not shared by other members. Insulting posts or comments making personal jibes will not be tolerated.

Please be aware that disagreeing with a post is not against the rules and flagging posts as abusive solely because they disagree with your point of view is a misuse of this feature.  

If posts do continuously break rule 4 then we may be required to lock the thread without warning. To be most helpful to the original poster it may be helpful to keep responses directly relevant to the question that they have asked or thought/experience that they have shared.  

Please be assured that our moderators do see the posts that are made, and we are aware of situations where individuals have been upset at posts made by another person. Concerning posts are acted upon and although we may not always make our actions public for a number of reasons, we do take action where we have a duty of care to ensure our members are safe.

To read our rules in full, please find them here: https://community.autism.org.uk/p/rules

Thank you all for your contributions to our Community,

Kind regards,

Clare Mod