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A new warning system has been devised closely resembling the old point-based system. It was agreed that a tally should be taken of each offense by a member and recorded in the staff forum for reference.
We have, however, done away with the system where X points leads to a permanent ban. Instead, once a member accumulates enough points to be considered a considerable disturbance, the forum staff will review the history and incidents of warnings to decide on banning.
If it is determined that a member should be banned, the staffers have the right and authority to do so. The type of ban will depend largely on the severity of offenses. Some may recieve a temporary ban, but non-permanent.
In this way, spamming and flaming still do not hold the same weight when deciding if a member should be allowed to stay or not.
The members start out with 0 points. Each offense has its own weight or point value. Every time a member violates our policies, they will have a specific number of points added to their record. Here is how the warning system breaks down:
1 point for spamming
1 point for off topic posts
1 point for advertising
2 points for pornography
2 points for inappropriate content
2 points for trolling
3 points for flaming
3 points for blatant discrimination
If a member's sole intention is to spam up the forums, they can be banned straight away. No questions asked.
Naturally, some points will wear away after a given amount of time. For instance, points for spamming will diminish about a month after the official warning was given.
If members wish to challenge a warning, they may bring it up to any forum staff members or regular (non-technical) administrators who will then address it to the rest of the forum staff. |
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| I like how posting porn is less severe than calling someone a stupid ****. |
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However, tranny porn of the kind Milly described sounds hot.
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I dont see how flaming can be worse than trolling either.
Also, will the staff be having some sort of dsciplinary system like the warning system? Or will the warning system be enforced on to them by other staff members?
Also, it might be best to release the revised forum rules up before the new warning system is put into play. There was a draft copy of it posted in the vets forum, and a few people commented on it, but i dont know whether it was improved on or anything.
Good to see things coming together and getting organised all the same though 
If this warning system had been posted and discussed in at least the vets forum first as the staff agreed on doing on the first day then we couldve helped with it. Just because a few of the vets are now on the staff isnt a good reason to go shutting out everyone else again.
Dont make the mistake that Afterlabs staff regime made by never asking the members for help and advice.
By the way, just thought I'd mention that this thread is directed towards the staff as a whole not any single entity. |
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Last edited by Turks : 05.26.06 at 13:45:49.
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I think ECCENTRICHOCOBO missed out on explaining a huge point that I was trying to make. Instead of giving out actual points for warnings, we let offences accumulate, and occasionally review members who have accumulated a large number of offences, and then use common sense - has this member done bad enough to the general forum's atmosphere to outweigh the good things he's done?
This way we're trying to avoid mass-production style issuing of warnings. And precisely because we use a common sense approach instead of a systematic one, you don't get stupid **** like calling someone a stupid **** when he was really asking for it being worth more than posting porn.
I think overall this is going to be quite a bit fairer to everyone. |
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So just say someone flamed someone else. Would they be told that they were getting 3 warning points or would all points just accumulate without the member actually knowing.
If so then I dont see this as being fair, as people wont be able to fight their case, and when it comes to being reviewed they may not remember some of the events or why they happened.
As long as members are told when warning points are added though, i think this could be a very successful system. |
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| No, everyone gets notified when the staff considers they do something bad. The hope is that they will review what they have done wrong, make any inquires about it if they have any, and hopefully adjust their behaviour to be in accordance with the rules, as probably will be the case with most most most of the people. |
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| Ummm out of all my years here at FFR, I think this is the first time I've heard of "trolling" mentioned here (or I just don't remember). Can someone kindly explain that for me? |
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| When you go on a topic and purposely flame it and defeat the purpose of it. Basically, just causing trouble in that thread. |
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| In other words, when making a post aimed at insulting people in general, trying to piss them off and try and make them flame you. That basically is trolling. |
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