Your TOS will fail the brethren.
You might quote the Scripture but in other places, the big print giveth and the small print taketh away. There is NO SUBSTITUTE for the Word of God.
Your TOS puts the Lord's people BACK under the law of TOS.
The true Christian cannot operate or behave when all these laws are dictating their behavior instead of the Word of God.
Case in point. You quote:
Luke 6:31
“And just as you want people to treat you, treat them in the same way.”
This is a fail because how can a brethren respond in kind to a moderator lording it over the brethren with warnings, infractions, and even excommunication? It's ONE-SIDED. Luke 6:31 CANNOT be obeyed.
Here's what's going to happen.
You either remove these worldly rules upon the brethren which are directly from the god of this world and you end up with a worldly sort, or let the people police themselves, remove the moderators and make them EQUAL in standing to the people of God, and bring the Word of God in so that God may have rule over His people.
I'm going to tell you, Stove, unless you allow Christians to be Christian and allow them to log in with their call intact, allowing them to exercise their spiritual gift(s) and their pound, and let them be themselves - good or evil - just as you would walk into a Church Fellowship (which there are none of these TOS when Christians gather with Christ in their midst), then you exclude God and in TIME you will learn whether this is a church-plant of God or not otherwise, this site will go the way of ALL the other sites that condition the brethren in the rules of the world and the god of this world INSTEAD of the Word of God.
Matthew 4:4 (KJV)
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
That should be the ONLY TOS for the Biblical Christian IF this is a Biblical site. Otherwise, it is only "Christianly."
And Christianly sites that place the people of God in bondage will fail.
Or you will.
IT IS UNBIBLICAL that a person violates the Word of God and has the sole authority to excommunicate brethren from fellowship for violating the bondage-laws you place on the brethren. What's the matter? You don't trust the very brethren you serve to invoke Matthew 18:15 et.all when they have an issue with brethren? You won't allow them to work out their own salvation among brethren?
You have such a grand opportunity here to do something that's NEVER been done (except when I did it in 2012 with a fellowship of 15) but tell me....and I been to a great many so-called "Christian sites" that have the same rules and laws that ONLY the brethren must follow but NEVER the moderators. The Elite Moderators. The Untouchables. They exercise such POWER OVER the brethren and GOD IS NOT PLEASED. These Moderators need to be SAT DOWN!
But let me take two of them in the back so I can teach them about RESPECTING THEIR ELDERS!
You are at a crossroads. The Word of God or the god of this world.
It’s very biblical to correct brothers who are promoting unbiblical ideas, attitudes and doctrine.
I guess when you have your own forum, you can set the guidelines.
Until then please learn to submit to the authority of this Forum.
If you have some teaching you would like to share, please open a thread and share.
If you just want to promote strife, then please do it elsewhere.
JLB