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I'm sorry to hark on about this but....
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Never pops open again for me if I'm on the same machine and haven't cleared cookies etc.
Under the privacy policy we don't give out details of forum discipline to anyone else without permission. Since you are pointing out the thread yourself, do you give us permission to post the details of the infraction here?
I wasn't threatening you. I was just suggesting a possible outcome of your continued mindset of starting threads on the same topic. But you seem to have a bee stuck in your bonnet, so I'm not sure I can help.
I agree
I have contacted the mods and gods about this issue as it is annoying to see every time you get on your user cp (though I thank Dr. Q for actions past regarding this)
For instance, I received one the other day for having 2 posts in a row. I try to go out of my way to always multiquote but when the posts are minutes apart due to further reading of the thread, one tends to forget.....
So now I have an infraction for consecutive posting
I was pm'd by the mod, whom I promptly pm'd back apologizing, and maybe 30min later it showed up in my user CP
My question to the mods is this:
Why not just PM members of the infringing post and give warnings that way instead of having infraction that WILL not disappear?
I have contacted the mods and gods about this issue as it is annoying to see every time you get on your user cp (though I thank Dr. Q for actions past regarding this)
For instance, I received one the other day for having 2 posts in a row. I try to go out of my way to always multiquote but when the posts are minutes apart due to further reading of the thread, one tends to forget.....
So now I have an infraction for consecutive posting
I was pm'd by the mod, whom I promptly pm'd back apologizing, and maybe 30min later it showed up in my user CP
My question to the mods is this:
Why not just PM members of the infringing post and give warnings that way instead of having infraction that WILL not disappear?
What's so difficult about clicking a single button to hide the infractions? Get over it, already! Can you possibly find anything more trivial to gripe about?
Sending personalized PMs and then manually documenting the incidents for our records takes substantially more time and work than utilizing the infraction system, which bundles it all neatly into one package that alerts the user with a message and a link to the post in question, as well as generating a "paper trail" for the mods.
Do we wish the infraction system was more customizable so that we could do things like make them disappear from a user's profile after a period of time? Yes. It could be accomplished to some degree with either plug-ins or our own modifications, but we are extremely selective about applying such tactics, not only for the effort they entail (primarily for custom solutions) but for their potential to screw things up.
... Hmm... THERE! I found Waldo! He's *right* there - there, you see? Right between the dancing guy and the Apple Cinema Display?
... what?
Sorry to make light of the situation. I have two infractions too - one I deserved, but was necessary, the other one, oh well. I posted in the wrong thread at the wrong time, basically.
It's annoying that I have to see them every time I go to my profile to check out my older posts (to see if there's any replies, and so on). But life goes on, you know?
If you don't have any infractions you won't see anything in your UserCP. Of course, I could give you one if you'd like
I got one once and I can't find it in my CP.
The problem with only telling part of the story is that it is only part of the story. So any implications associated with the above comment are likely wrong. Oy.
If you're going to play the passive-aggressive game and say you don't care what we do, it hardly seems worth our time to keep pursuing this. If you genuinely don't know why you received a warning, you are welcome to ask.
We are happy to discuss things privately as is our standard practice, or here in this thread if you prefer since you've made such a show of your side of the story.
We are happy to discuss things privately as is our standard practice, or here in this thread if you prefer since you've made such a show of your side of the story.
I think they're waiting for you to give a definite 'yes, in public' or 'no, in private'. Your posts are coming across as indifferent as to whether they do or not, so they probably don't want to risk causing more agro by second guessing you.
AppleMatt
Calling someone an idiot, double posting (intentional or not), bumping threads, creating duplicate threads with no effort to avoid doing so are all rules that are commonly broken here. So how exactly is this them using the infraction system incorrectly? A system designed to simplify and shorten the warning period for the moderators (they have lives too you know, and probably enjoy being able to simply browse the forums) as well as warning the offender and providing a history of infractions for both parties to see.
From what you've said all you did was call somebody an "idiot," while I feel there is more to the story, you have already admitted to violating the Forum Rules.
Infractions are in place in this forum to serve a warning and constant reminder about the violation, did vBulletin have other intentions for this feature, possibly, but ultimately it is the owner/admins of the forum who decide how each feature will be used.
And finally, if you still feel that you were falsely sanctioned for your actions, contact a mod or admin. Another forum that I am on (that also uses vBulletin) has a feature kind of like Wikipedia's edit history page, that allows you to see changes between post edits and I'm almost sure that the mods have that ability here. Since your original post has since been edited to remove the infraction, how about asking one of them directly to review (instead of just making multiple threads and constant ranting without actually trying to solve anything). If it bothers you this much then that is the route to go. It doesn't bother me that I have to stare at my old infraction all the time, it serves as a reminder of what I did wrong.
At first I read that as 'CV' ('resume' to yanks) then realized that rather than jeopardizing the rest of my life we were only talking about an Internet forum.