WARNINGS (AND TEMPORARY BANS)
When forum staff issue a warning, the warning includes warning points. Most warnings include one warning point, which will expire after one month. Some warnings have a different amount of warning points or expiry date. Forum staff can use their own judgement to change the amount of warning points within the staff guidance.
The forum will automatically ban you if you have too many active warning points. You can have too many warning points from a single warning which had many warning points, or through multiple active warnings where the individual warning points will add together. You can have two active warning points with no automatic action.
After this, you will receive an automatic temporary ban, as listed below:
When your warning points expire, the warning itself will still be on your account, unless an appeal has been won, or the forum management review the warning and find it to be incorrect, where it will be deleted. Deleted warnings will remove all records of the warning and warning points from your account. Even with warnings on your account, you should not be worried, expired warnings will largely fade away and be forgotten about.
PERMANENT BANS
As you must use your unique National Insurance Number to register, which will prevent you from ever creating a new account, permanent bans are almost never considered. The requirement to share a unique number should prevent almost all bots and unsuitable members from joining in the first place. We have yet to issue a permanent ban.
When we do have to ban a member, almost all bans are temporary. The highest warning point level is a ban for 2 years. See the warnings section for details.
Although the site owner has discretion, there are only three main reasons you could earn a truly permanent ban, which are:
When forum staff issue a warning, the warning includes warning points. Most warnings include one warning point, which will expire after one month. Some warnings have a different amount of warning points or expiry date. Forum staff can use their own judgement to change the amount of warning points within the staff guidance.
The forum will automatically ban you if you have too many active warning points. You can have too many warning points from a single warning which had many warning points, or through multiple active warnings where the individual warning points will add together. You can have two active warning points with no automatic action.
After this, you will receive an automatic temporary ban, as listed below:
- If you get 3 total active warning points, you will be banned for 2 days.
- If you get 4 total active warning points, you will be banned for 2 weeks.
- If you get 5 total active warning points, you will be banned for 2 months.
- If you get 6 total active warning points, you will be banned for 2 years.
When your warning points expire, the warning itself will still be on your account, unless an appeal has been won, or the forum management review the warning and find it to be incorrect, where it will be deleted. Deleted warnings will remove all records of the warning and warning points from your account. Even with warnings on your account, you should not be worried, expired warnings will largely fade away and be forgotten about.
PERMANENT BANS
As you must use your unique National Insurance Number to register, which will prevent you from ever creating a new account, permanent bans are almost never considered. The requirement to share a unique number should prevent almost all bots and unsuitable members from joining in the first place. We have yet to issue a permanent ban.
When we do have to ban a member, almost all bans are temporary. The highest warning point level is a ban for 2 years. See the warnings section for details.
Although the site owner has discretion, there are only three main reasons you could earn a truly permanent ban, which are:
- You pose a serious risk to other members or the wider forum, that discussions between the member and staff have been unable to resolve
- You deliberately and/or repeatedly share extreme or illegal content, such as "CSAM" - be careful searching that if you don't know what it means!
- You deliberately and/or repeatedly recieve discipline - as in, you are not listening to our feedback, and we are unable to resolve your behaviour
