Community is king at 99designs and while most of the time people respect the rules and each other, it is necessary to clearly define our policy and the consequences for not respecting the community.

99designs has a Three Strike Policy

By participating in the 99designs community members are agreeing to act in a professional manner and respect the Designer Code of Conduct and Contest Holder Guidelines.

If it is determined a member is breaking rules they will earn strikes against them.

Any member who earns three strikes will be permanently banned from the community.

Major infractions such as submitting a design that has been clearly copied in total or in part from someone or somewhere else will result in an immediate strike.

Each strike earned will result in a suspension:

Infractions such as leaving an inappropriate comment may result in a written warning, however, if it is found that a member regularly leaves comments that are negative, aggressive or otherwise abusive, that member will earn a strike.

A record of warnings and strikes will be kept for all community members.

99designs reserves the right to hand out suspensions, strikes or ban a community member entirely as it sees fit.