My one was withdrawn.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 Apparently that idea was rescinded. 
Hmm… I thought I had picked up one, but apparently not.
Where have I gone wrong?
One. One feeble one; barely felt that I earned it.
I’ve earned a couple mod notes over the years, but I’m not sure how many.
Another zero.
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.
*At some point the method of tracking warnings changed. I don’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 isn’t it just a matter of time before I get banned? Occasionally, in the future, someone’s going to say something outrageous, and I’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. I’ve also enjoyed reading and posting to this board greatly - was thinking of upgrading to a paid member - but if I’m going to eventually be banned because I get a warning on average once ever 6 months, I don’t see a reason to.
Zero. I’m obviously not one of the cool kids around here.
The Modes here aren’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.
That’s ridiculous. I make on average several posts a day - that means that I get a warning every 750 posts. That’s in no way a lot. And, in every case, the warnings were for subtle things, like getting frustrated that Stranger on the Train couldn’t understand kinetic energy = 1/2mv^2 and the practical consequences of that squared term, so I said “let me explain this in smaller words”. Or simply saying that I was envisioning a poster who kept irrationally saying basically “down with Obamacare” as a person on medicare living in a trailer park, etc.
Idle Thoughts popped my cherry just a few months ago. (He was gentle.)
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 moderator’s skirt.
One. Maybe two… Both during the winter of “our missed content.”
I don’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 don’t even get one warning ever. But whatever, do what you gotta do.
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.
I do NOT want to envision this.
Also 14 years and almost 15,000 posts and not an official warning yet … though a “note” or two have been made. Despite plenty of frustration along the way.
I don’t live in fear of being warned; it is just not too hard to not be a jerk.
Ditto. And I’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.