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[Greatness Gone]

Hi, can someone explain me what a "warning" and warning points mean in resetera? Is it tied to one thread? Does it lead to bans? Are those points permanent?

Thanks.

"points" means nothing to us.
A warning will be on your record permanently and if someone does something similar again we we take that into account and escalate as appropriate.

Does the record of warnings and bans ever expire?

e.g. say someone gets a short ban for X in year 1, then a longer ban for X again in year 5, then it happens again in year 20, maybe they get perma-banned then for a history of X?

The history doesn't expire but we absolutely take time-since into account. Let's say someone is Banned for something for a week two years ago, and they do the same thing again today, if it's nothing egregious, and the member has been generally well behaved since, we might just do a one week ban again, as opposed to escalating to two weeks.
If you were warned for something benign years ago, that is not going to make us jump to a perm today based solely on that.

Asking them about the rhyme and reason of how they decide to moderate when they prove every single day that it's based on how they feel in the moment.