When did "infractions" begin? Is that part of the user reputation feature or something completely different? I'm so lost right now...
Just for the record, I'm not being facetious. I looked over the forum rules and I saw nothing about "infractions", so I'm really confused.
Infactions are a built-in system to vBulletin.
We've had them for over a year. The reason you had no clue about them is because you haven't been trolling since we moved to vB.
They are essentially a warning system and are used to keep track of trouble makers and such. They are handed out to thread bumpers, people who are trolling, etc. An infraction is sometimes what happens when you report a post.
They are designed so that after X infraction points, a temporary ban gets put in place, but I have that off, so essentially it's like a yellow card in soccer or something -- i.e. it's a warning and nothing more really.
Too many though and you and I get to have a little chat.
nobody knows. It's not just a part of the user rep feature, because thanks to my two infractions, I can't positive or negative rep people, and I can only post every 300 seconds.
Uh, hardly. Quit trying to stir up trouble. And you can't hand out rep because I took the ability away from you because you were abusing it.
I kinda feel like I got a referral and am siting outside the principal's office:lol:
That's because you essentially are.
So wait, there were polls and debates to decide if we use reputation and to decide the fate of the arcade,
As I said, I care what you guys think, hence the me asking for your guys input via the threads. The arcade's still there because people wanted it.
but there wasn't an official announcement of this new infraction system
A year is new? Mmmk.
or even of the recent rule change about spam? (The first I heard of it was accompanied by what I still think is a stiff price over a little fun.)
It's not my job to keep you informed about changes to the forum rules. That's your job.
I even bump the thread when any changes are made to make people aware.
Something is not adding up here. I've been around for a while now and I've never really seen the need to penalize people for their actions. Everything seemed to be dealt with fairly before until recently. I'm confused as to why we needed the changes and why they were pretty much secretly implemented. But I suppose the only thing I can do now is bend over and take the iron fist up the poop chute.
Where the fuck is all this coming from?
Nothing has changed. The infractions system isn't new.
Okay, look, this all started because zenkidori had a picture of someone taking a piss into a toilet in his sig. This is not something I or the majority of other users I think want to look at while browsing the forums, especially when at work, so I nicely asked him to change it via PM (which is well within my right as forum owner). I didn't ban him for breaking common sense forum rules (decency and such), I didn't even give him an infraction. I was just nice and sent him a PM asking him to change it.
He then got bent out of shape and basically said I was being totally unreasonable and that I should have just blocked the image on my PC if I didn't want to look at it, but that he'd change it anyway.
It went on from there and he's been trolling ever since.
KaJuN: before you go off on something, know the full story next time.
Everyone:
That's enough of this shit. I'm serious. Nothing has changed in months except the reputation feature which has nothing to do with any of this. I'm not picking on anyone and if you ask me, I'm a
LOT more patient than other forum admins IMO.
If people insist on trolling and causing drama, I'll just use the ban hammer and be done with it. I won't have any of BS on my forums. There are over 20,000 other people on this forum and I won't have you ruin their time here.
If you don't like it, there's the door.
Thanks.