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0 point warnings

  • 13-01-2024 12:13PM
    #1
    suvigirl
    Site Banned Posts: 12,922 ✭✭✭✭suvigirl


    Just a couple of queries about these, if anyone can help or point me to where the answers are, thanks.

    Do 0 point warnings get deleted after a certain period?

    Can they be seen by a mod?

    Are they used by mods if they threadban someone?

    Post edited by Spear on


Comments

  • #2
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,645 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Yeah it's pretty much endgame



  • #3
    Van Incalculable Liquor
    Posts: 7,522 ✭✭✭ Van Incalculable Liquor


    0 points are basically just notices. They do not impact your account at all, they are visible to other mods and they won’t “go away”.

    Unlike a 1 or 2 point warning the points will eventually expire but the warning will remain historically it just doesn’t have an impact.

    0 points are handy if I wanted to attach your post to a PM but it won’t make any impact to you. You could receive 100 0 points to no effect but enough 1 points in a short enough space you are getting a temp siteban.



  • #4
    suvigirl
    Site Banned Posts: 12,922 ✭✭✭✭suvigirl


    But presumably a mod would use these warnings of someone reported something else? They may result in action being taken ?

    Is there any point trying to appeal such warnings?



  • #5
    Van Incalculable Liquor
    Posts: 7,522 ✭✭✭ Van Incalculable Liquor


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121610163#Comment_121610163

    It would depend.

    I wouldn’t use warnings applied in another forum for example as it bears no relevance.

    You can dispute them with the mod or in help desk but not dispute resolution.



  • #6
    suvigirl
    Site Banned Posts: 12,922 ✭✭✭✭suvigirl


    Cheers @[Deleted User]



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  • #7
    Van Incalculable Liquor
    Posts: 7,522 ✭✭✭ Van Incalculable Liquor


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121610208#Comment_121610208

    No prob.

    honestly they are not any different to me just sending you a PM only it happens to (quite handily) attach the post to the PM!

    But as I say they have no impact whatsoever to your account. It’s like the old system where there were yellow and red cards, but mods would as well just give you a little nudge to behave yourself if necessary without applying a card.

    Exact same idea with the point system.

    0 point = a notice

    1 point = yellow card

    2 point = red card

    and I’m not great at explaining it but if you get 5 points in succession (ie you have 5+ “active” points) a siteban is triggered until the points expire and bring you below 5 active. The duration depends when the first points were applied.



  • #8
    Big Bag of Chips
    Administrators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,090 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Big Bag of Chips


    As Van Incalculable Liquor explains above, they're a handy way of drawing the posters attention to a specific post they've made that might not be appropriate etc in a thread. You will get a PM warning, with the post attached.

    If you get 5 points your account is temporarily sitebanned. But 0 point warnings obviously don't count towards this.

    However, if a moderator has given a few 0 point warnings asking a poster not to do a certain thing etc, and the poster persists then the history of receiving 0 point warnings would be taken into account and the next warning for the same thing will be a 1 point warning, at least.



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