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[Clint]

The new update to the forum has allowed us to create an infraction system. This will work to keep punishments consistent and allow us to keep a record of prior infractions.

The system will work as follows. When you do something against the rules you will be issued an infraction. With this infraction comes a set number of points that will stay with you for a length of time. If you accumulate enough points you will become an inmate for a length of time. Naturally the more points you accumulate before they become inactive the more of a punishment you receive.

Admins also have the option to give you a warning, which is an infraction with no points or give you an infraction with a custom number of points at their discretion.

The infractions and the length of time that the points remain are as follows:


The number of points that correspond to a punishment and the length of that punishment are as follows:

[Clint]

Naturally this system will take some time to iron out all of the kinks. So there may be some adjustments and they will all be noted.

Also if you have any questions or don't quite understand what all of this means just ask.

[Brutus]

so ur saying if you accumulate 10 points, no matter how, you will be an inmate for 3 days??

[lottie-12]

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[Quintessential Studmuffin]

Originally Posted by lottie-12

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[Clint]

Originally Posted by Hunchbacked Lemur

so ur saying if you accumulate 10 points, no matter how, you will be an inmate for 3 days??

Yeah if you accumulate 10 active points. If you get 5 now and 5 in a year, then the first 5 still wouldn't be active so you would only have 5 total.

[Severn]

Whatever happened to throwing guys in the hole? That seemed to work fine.

[Clint]

Originally Posted by Severn

Whatever happened to throwing guys in the hole? That seemed to work fine.

People expected a list of everything they had done prior whenever they where made inmates (we had no way of keeping track of all of that) and when they didn't get it they would flip out and get themselves permabanned.

[smoogy]

Some of the infractions aren't really clear. Whats the difference betwen the three levels of flaming, or borderline/flagrant racism?

Its a positive step to have more explicit rules like this but at a glance it seems like there are some arbitrarily steep punishments, and some infractions appear hard to enforce. For example, some people called Bullock a racist for his AMX signature... under this system you'd either have to let him off the hook or give him a two week inmate term. Also, admins being able to add infaction points at their discretion, without restrictions, could undermine the system of having standard penalties.

[Brutus]

it sounds like it will be a great system once all the kinks are worked out. on the other hand, it seems strange to me that creating a duplicate thread, which 99 percent of the time is an innocent mistake, warrants a 2 point penalty that sticks for 3 month. maybe a month or so for that would be cool to me but thats JMO. like i said tho, the system will work itself out.