Two birds with one stone here.
Infraction points:
An infraction is given as a warning for a misdemeanor.
The points are given out as befits the infraction (crime so to speak) In general 1 point is handed out at a time until the receiver gets 10 points then one of a number of things will happen. You could be banned for an hour, day, week or indefinitely. Or you may lose forum privileges like sending PM's or similar for a period of time.
If it is felt an infringement is really bad, (for instance, slander and malicious unfounded lies against another member) it is probable the perpetrator could receive all 10 points in 1 hit and be banned indefinitely until the matter was cleared up.
The point accumulate over a period of time (usually 10 days but this can be extended for as long or as short a time as the moderator or admin giving the point sees fit) and then if they don't reach 10 are wiped and the slate is clean again, until the next time. Hopefully there will never be a next time.
Banning is done as the very, very last resort. We do not like doing it and try everything in our power to resolve a problem rather then ban a member. If you are banned by a moderator that ban can be overturned at any time by any of the administrators if it is deemed the banning was unjust or or pay back etc. To date there has been less than a handful of banned member reinstated there have been hundred banned. Mostly spammers and peddlers of .
I hope all who are interested can understand what I have written above. If so it is as simple as that,
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Originally Posted by outback
Ok if we are all honest we know what complete drivel is, but without some guidlines, which we are all happy to follow, I feel we are running scared.
The boundaries for drivel:
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Below is copy of the only instructions given by me to the mods re drivel. I have been loath to put this on because it shows the boundaries that I know some of you are going to push. However for the sake of some peace and rational thinking from some members I have put them on here.
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Not worried about drivel in anything other than real forums.
Woodies Jokes and A Woodies Yarn are fun and if they want to drivel in there then who cares.
Polls to a lesser extent are much the same and only in the more serious polls would I be worried about drivel or hijacking, actually some of the polls deserve...... Nay, beg, to be hijacked.
My best interpretation of what could give rise to deletion and infraction. Anything mindless that sounds like it's coming from a little kid and has nothing what so ever to do with the thread it's in.
Pretty simplistic I know but how complicated do we want to make it.
Leave the witty stuff etc so long as it's in keeping with the thread and isn't intended as a deliberate hijack, even then, if the thread rights itself almost immediately leave it. I definitely don't want to kill what makes these forum so great and that is the fact that we do have a laugh, make wise cracks, etc.
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My final words in this thread:
I have way over $150,000 and 8 years of my life invested in these forums. I do nothing that does not benefit the forums and all those members who are genuinely interested in seeing them grow. If any of you think otherwise you must be crazy. Every time something new is done or tried there are a handful of members (less than .05% of the membership) who come here and spread the doom and gloom bit. They never seem take time out to think through the consequences of their actions.
Current time 3:18 am. I don't need this sheeit.
