Who do I go to complain about a needless and unworthy infraction? I'm not complaining about it in this forum, because I will just get another stupid and undeserved infraction. You guys need to lighten up and stop infracting random people and making up ridiculous rules. just my 0.02c
Since you are discussing two pieces of forum software where better to discuss than under forum management?
Well, it's not ridiculous, but it is certainly NOT infraction worthy. Worthy yes of a reminder, then a warning, but not just a full out and pointless infraction. Infractions are meant as a LAST resort, not just the first resort because you can ban someone with them. Just saying.
Infractions *are* warnings. Bans are the last resort, not infractions. People are warned with an infractions, and if they keep getting more infractions (warnings), they eventually will be banned.
I don't treat infractions as warnings and not a lot of people do. They treat them as "a way to alert users that they are constantly breaking a rule" Not "we will give infractions to anyone who breaks our rule. No warnings, infractions are favoured." It only drives members away and makes people feel forced into following rules. Maybe you should issue infractions if the rule has been broken a number of times (eg 4 times?) rather than straight away? Just a suggestion. This is coming from a forum admin.
In the end it would all be the same. If we issued 1 infraction per 5 "warnings" then we would just lower the threshold by a factor of 5 where the ban is triggered.
Not really. After you've given 3 warnings for the same offense, you delete the warnings and then just issue infractions for that offense Increase the point levels of the infractions though