Warnings would show up on your profile though only user who has them can view them, also only mods could assign. A user would 3 black boxes that fill up after after warnings. The Warn icons would be as follows No Warnings-3 blank black boxes on profile 1st Warning1 green filled box every warn, after 3, 1 week ban 2nd Warning-1 red filled box for every warn, all 3 results in permanent ban. Basically this for showing how close a user is being banned.
as far as im concerned, if your new to the site you should get a free period so you can adjust to the rules and way the things work. after a certain amount of time however your free game to be banned or get a stern warning,whatever the mods so choose to do with your sorry excuse of an account.
No, when you get your first warn, you get a temporary ban, second warn = longer temp ban, third warn= perma-ban.
Yes but each rule is different. Depending on the rule, a warning should be anything between a simple warning (no punishment) to perminant ban. It all depends on what the user did wrong.
Anyways the rest of my opinions are in my previous posts.
Alright, minor rules-1 square filled Major rules- Posting porn, threating members, Promoting spam,etc=instant ban. Perhaps you should lose only warn per month, and it would be impossible to lose a warn after you hit the red warning, or it would take a year to clean your slate.
[quote=Drognar]Alright, minor rules-1 square filled Major rules- Posting porn, threating members, Promoting spam,etc=instant ban. Perhaps you should lose only warn per month, and it would be impossible to lose a warn after you hit the red warning, or it would take a year to clean your slate.[/quote]
Those are some great ideas! You should be able to fill more than one square on more serious offences.
There are a few things bothering me. Everyone is acting like it is easy to break rules on this site and people are getting banned for accidently breaking rules. This is not true. I am 100% sure that every single person banned on this site knew the reasons why they were banned and that they all knew that what they did was wrong.
Anyways, there is already a warning system! When a member breaks a rule, a mod will tell them what they did wrong on their profile. If a mod does not say anything, what they did was bad enough for them to get perminantly banned. In this case there is no reason to warn them because if you get perminantly banned then you know what you did wrong. Why come up with a complex system for something that already works.
I say that the system the mods have now works because when a user gets banned after a mod warns them through a profile comment, who is to say that the check mark box thing would scare them any more? In fact, if I had 3 boxes to tell me how close to being banned/perminant banned, I would probally be less threatened than if a mod simply told me I was in trouble.
If anything, I beleive a mod should be allowed to change their profile comment text color to red. If a mod comments someone with red texts then that would easily show that the comment is a warning.
I knew someone would say something along the terms of "Well they could fill more than one square at a time then."
Even if so, this is a pontless system that would only confuse and become more work than what is necessary. A verbal warn works better than some box being changed colors. If a verbal warning does not work then the box will definately not do any better.
Proof or an example? The mods always have proof. They should not have to show proof to the person who has done wrong.
Ummm no i dont agree with you there , in courts across the world , the defense is always shown the proof the accuser has , why not do the same here , the person who is about to get banned should give a valid reason why he/she commited such an act
The reason why I said that was because in court, the proof is represented to a judge not the person accused of a crime. The judges are the mods and if you do something wrong then why the hell do you need someone to show you what you yourself did wrong? You should know what you did wrong.
If you do get a warning... which the already do(which is why this idea is not necessary)... and if you honestly want them to prove it to you then you can ask the mod to proove it themselves!
Anyways if you are going to dissagree with me and give me a reason, don't pick at a few of my sentences. I want you to tackle everything I said (or at least some of it). It is not hard to pick one sentence and use it against me but you will find my arguement as a whole makes plenty of sence.
I think that this would actually a good idea but if a new member broke the rules and didn't know would he still get a box marked off?Although I presume they would but I think it is a great idea.
Realy it is not hard to know the rules on a forum. The things new members have problems with in forums is not so much getting to know the rules as it is to become a mature poster.
The rules are common sence and are common courtassy. If you have the ability to post in these forums you must be old enough to know common courtassy.
