# How may official warnings do you have? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 14, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153 "2015-07-14T16:55:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/41 "2015-07-14T21:45:38Z")
My one was withdrawn. A play on words about a former moderator during the midst of a joke thread, landed several of us in hot water. \< sniff \> All of a sudden, I thought I was one of the cool kids. Apparently that idea was rescinded. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/42 "2015-07-14T22:03:03Z")
Hmmā€¦ I thought I had picked up one, but apparently not. Where have I gone wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/43 "2015-07-14T22:05:46Z")
One. One feeble one; barely felt that I earned it. Iā€™ve earned a couple mod notes over the years, but Iā€™m not sure how many. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/44 "2015-07-14T22:19:19Z")
Another zero. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/45 "2015-07-14T22:21:20Z")
3 officially. There were 4, but one was reversed on appeal. The one from **JC** I bear proudly. The other 2 were accepted for the control measures they were. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/46 "2015-07-14T22:28:41Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Itā€™s understandable that you would think so, but as so often happens, your experience has led you to assume something is true, that certainly is not. > > Hereā€™s the actual reality, as far as I can know at present. > > The user Control Panel will list the last 5 Infractions recieved. Itā€™s shows them under a heading called **Latest Infractions Received**. > > Warnings (which are not the same as Infractions) will not show there. However, a PM might say ā€œyou have received a warningā€ when **it is actually an Infraction** , so it will show up in the CP area for this. You may have had a warning in a thread, but they do not show up there, only Infractions show up. > > If you have more than 5 only the latest 5 will appear. To see the others requires checking the PM folder, assuming you did not delete the PM announcing the Infraction. > > Suspensions do not show up anywhere, no PM about it, or any other way to actually know when, and for how long a suspension was for. (so if you donā€™t log in while suspended, you will not even know it happened) > > All that being said, since I have more than 5 Infractions now, I would have to look through all past PMs to find the number. Since I donā€™t really care, letā€™s just assume I have more Infractions than anyone still posting on the board. \*At some point the method of tracking warnings changed. I donā€™t know the exact date of that change. This is about the current system. You are incorrect, there are not two levels of admonishments , infractions and warnings. There are only warnings. All warnings will appear under your infractions tab in the User CP. if a mod tells you that you are being warned in a thread and that warning never shows up under your infractions it was because the mod got distracted by something shiny before he could enter your warning into the system. Shhh you got a freebie. ---
**Author:** ![Habeed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Habeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habeed)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/47 "2015-07-14T23:00:01Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > \*At some point the method of tracking warnings changed. I donā€™t know the exact date of that change. This is about the current system. > > You are incorrect, there are not two levels of admonishments , infractions and warnings. There are only warnings. All warnings will appear under your infractions tab in the User CP. if a mod tells you that you are being warned in a thread and that warning never shows up under your infractions it was because the mod got distracted by something shiny before he could enter your warning into the system. Shhh you got a freebie. So if warnings never expire, then isnā€™t it just a matter of time before I get banned? Occasionally, in the future, someoneā€™s going to say something outrageous, and Iā€™ll rack up a warning responding. Is this why so many positive, productive posters on these boards from earlier years were all eventually banned? Maybe you should rethink this. Iā€™ve also enjoyed reading and posting to this board greatly - was thinking of upgrading to a paid member - but if Iā€™m going to eventually be banned because I get a warning on average once ever 6 months, I donā€™t see a reason to. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/48 "2015-07-14T23:00:33Z")
Zero. Iā€™m obviously not one of the cool kids around here. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/49 "2015-07-14T23:09:39Z")
> [@Habeed](#): > > So if warnings never expire, then isnā€™t it just a matter of time before I get banned? Occasionally, in the future, someoneā€™s going to say something outrageous, and Iā€™ll rack up a warning responding. Is this why so many positive, productive posters on these boards from earlier years were all eventually banned? > > Maybe you should rethink this. Iā€™ve also enjoyed reading and posting to this board greatly - was thinking of upgrading to a paid member - but if Iā€™m going to eventually be banned because I get a warning on average once ever 6 months, I donā€™t see a reason to. The Modes here arenā€™t robots. They look at the dates and reasons for the accumulated warnings before they make a decision to ban someone. Depending on the circumstances, you can get banned or suspending on your first warning or it make take a few. One every six months is a lot though. Few people get that many and stay around, but again it depends on the circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![Habeed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Habeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habeed)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/50 "2015-07-14T23:14:26Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > . One every six months is a lot though. Few people get that many and stay around, but again it depends on the circumstances. Thatā€™s ridiculous. I make on average several posts a day - that means that I get a warning every 750 posts. Thatā€™s in no way a lot. And, in every case, the warnings were for subtle things, like getting frustrated that Stranger on the Train couldnā€™t understand kinetic energy = 1/2mv^2 and the practical consequences of that squared term, so I said ā€œlet me explain this in smaller wordsā€. Or simply saying that I was envisioning a poster who kept irrationally saying basically ā€œdown with Obamacareā€ as a person on medicare living in a trailer park, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/51 "2015-07-14T23:17:08Z")
**Idle Thoughts** popped my cherry just a few months ago. (He was gentle.) ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/52 "2015-07-14T23:18:54Z")
I have two, both in the last year. The first I have a lot to say about, but it would just gt me another warning. The second was an honest slipup that I apologized for immediately, but still got warned. Both were for calling out threadshitting, which I dealt with directly, rather than reporting it and hiding behind a moderatorā€™s skirt. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/53 "2015-07-14T23:20:46Z")
One. Maybe twoā€¦ Both during the winter of ā€œour missed content.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/54 "2015-07-15T00:01:54Z")
> [@Habeed](#): > > Thatā€™s ridiculous. I make on average several posts a day - that means that I get a warning every 750 posts. Thatā€™s in no way a lot. And, in every case, the warnings were for subtle things, like getting frustrated that Stranger on the Train couldnā€™t understand kinetic energy = 1/2mv^2 and the practical consequences of that squared term, so I said ā€œlet me explain this in smaller wordsā€. Or simply saying that I was envisioning a poster who kept irrationally saying basically ā€œdown with Obamacareā€ as a person on medicare living in a trailer park, etc. I donā€™t make the rules here, dude, those are just my observations over the last fourteen years. I can be a total dick and even I can manage not to get warned more than once every five years or so. The vast majority of people donā€™t even get one warning ever. But whatever, do what you gotta do. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/55 "2015-07-15T00:09:15Z")
> [@Habeed](#): > > So if warnings never expire, then isnā€™t it just a matter of time before I get banned? Occasionally, in the future, someoneā€™s going to say something outrageous, and Iā€™ll rack up a warning responding. Is this why so many positive, productive posters on these boards from earlier years were all eventually banned? > > Maybe you should rethink this. Iā€™ve also enjoyed reading and posting to this board greatly - was thinking of upgrading to a paid member - but if Iā€™m going to eventually be banned because I get a warning on average once ever 6 months, I donā€™t see a reason to. Any answer to this would be a further hijack. If you want to ask a similar question go ahead and open a thread in ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/56 "2015-07-15T00:11:15Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > **Idle Thoughts** popped my cherry just a few months ago. (He was gentle.) I do NOT want to envision this. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/57 "2015-07-15T00:16:02Z")
Also 14 years and almost 15,000 posts and not an official warning yet ā€¦ though a ā€œnoteā€ or two have been made. Despite plenty of frustration along the way. I donā€™t live in fear of being warned; it is just not too hard to not be a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/58 "2015-07-15T00:16:40Z")
[Help, help! Iā€™m being repressed!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS_1bzaj2fw) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/59 "2015-07-15T00:36:06Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Zero, and I have been here since 2001. Ditto. And Iā€™m good at not saying what I really think in real life too. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153/60 "2015-07-15T01:46:01Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Ditto. And Iā€™m good at not saying what I really think in real life too. Being good at not saying what you think is an essential survival tool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-official-warnings-do-you-have/725153.md?page=4)