Shoutbox

A suggestion for these forums: a warning system

How it works: like the Invision board one; each user has a warn level, and when it reaches 100% you're banned. you get for example +10% or +20% or +30% for misbehaving or not following the rules. You can "lose warn" by behaving good.

Personally i think this is better than the classic 24hr-ban...

I disagree. Even tho I have been banned alot, I still don't think you should be warned. Like J-mac said one day, "We dont give warnings we bann".

But with the warn system your giving them multiple chances, if they do something and should be banned, ban them.

I don't agree with the warning system either... people are not just banned straight away, they ARE given multiple chances in general.

The warning system isnt a very good idea in my opinion.

Anybody who is part of this forum should know that certain members like Sean (Who has cleaned up his act and I like just fine ) are just disliked and everything they post some stupid person says "Ohhh you spammer!" even when the post really is just fine.

The system is too easily abusable and I dont like it. They have something like it on AIM and I think its just stupid because people can kick others off for no reason.

I don't like it either and it's not needed, mods and admin give warnings to users who cross the line and after a few warnings they get banned for a limited time (24 hours the first time and so on till a definite ban), I like it just the way it is now.

The big benefit would be that the user will immediatly see the warning (because it will be under the avatar, right?). In that way, he/she can't say: "I missed that post were the mod warned me" or "I don't read my PM's regulary"...

And about abuse: it can be as much/less abused as the current ban-system of course. It's the mods that issue warnings, so if they are corrupt, then yes, it can be abused. But the point in being a mod is that you don't abuse the power you have, so no, it wont be abused...

PS: I'm not saying it should be added, I'm only replying to some posts

I think its a good idea that way the person can realise and clean up thier act, also search for where they went wrong i find my post count drops all the time so some mods must count my posts as Spam but i can see where i have spammed at all.

I dislike the idea as well...stick with bans.  People like me would get banned too much just because of Unpopularity .

Also, what if 10 Users saw the same post they thought was "bad" and warned you, you'd have 100% warning and be banned for one post, also, n00bs could use the power just to "test it" on join.

No, the warning system ive used on other forums you must warn and give a reason for it and then it has to be reviewed by a moderator and then passed on to the member when its been validated.