Under “latest infractions received” below my subscribed threads, for quite a while there were some things listed. Now since recently there is nothing, and it says “zero points total”. But whatever, I believe you.
You have to look under the “Infractions” tab in your profile to see them. The system allows us to assign different points to different infractions, like points on your driver’s license, but we don’t use that. All warnings have zero points.
Although some people advocate that we employ some kind of robotic moderation system, and if you get exactly so many warnings in exactly such a period of time for exactly so many points you’re suspended or banned, as we’ve often said we prefer to handle things on a case-by-case basis. We look at the frequency and severity of offenses, not just their number, to evaluate what if any sanctions to impose.
I actually cataloged all of the historical warnings in a table so we could search them easier. It took a bit of time since there were over 1800 of them, and I had to compile them manually. We used to not have any standardized warning categories so mods would describe the warning on their own - to normalize into our current environment I read through several to determine what category they should fall into.
Awesome - I forgot about that scene.
We thank you for your efforts!
Since we’re on the subject, could my record be expunged? I wasn’t mentally fit to stand trial at the time. 
I don’t see anything. So I have to be a jerk to unlock all the features of this board?!
In terms of warnings expiring? It gets brought up every now and again. But I’m not in favor of it. It’s good for us, from time to time, to be able to see a history of behavior that could cause concern and warnings is a way to track that.
But Colibri’s right that they sure go stale. While I won’t speak for the others, I know that when I’m examining a poster’s record - or when we’re collectively discussing potential sanctions - I’ll look back for warnings at the six or twelve month distance to see if there’s a pattern of a particular type of warning or whether there’s a particular topic that’s inspiring poor behavior (that’s a real issue in Great Debates and Elections, God knows).
But anything much past that? Only if it’s something extremely specific and detailed that I’m looking for data about.
Whatever old-timer … those stone tablets were coded into punch cards years ago! 
The thread title is misleading. I thought it’d be about how far back in the past you could be warned for a post. For a counterfactual example, back in 2004, I called another poster a feckled hemorrhoid. But no one reported me and the moderators at the time didn’t notice. But let’s say here in 2019 someone reads that old post and reports me. Will a moderator issue me a warning, or will the statute of limitations save me?
What was the rule about insults in 2004? If such a comment was okay back then I would think you’re “safe”.
Here’s the official Moderator Statue of Limitations.
It would most likely save you. Warnings and notes are meant to guide behavior and if something is very stale, it’s not like that would work on guiding anything. I tend not to issue warnings if something is stale, but there is no hard and fast rule.
Keep in mind that Warnings, in themselves, are not exactly a punishment. We look at them when we’re deciding whether to do things like suspensions or bannings. And that’s when we consider that one warning wasn’t all that bad, or another one was particularly heinous, or that happened a long time ago and the poster has improved since then, and so on.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s a matter of a few days, especially if a thread is no longer active. If something hasn’t been noticed or reported in that time, it’s probably not important, and issuing a warning would do little. However, this should not be taken to indicate that a severe offense that had somehow been overlooked would not be warned further back than that.
(One of my favorite things is when a poster, reading through a long thread, reports a post that I already moderated three days ago.)
That’s actually a remarkable likeness of tomndebb.
Remarkably good, or remarkably bad?
Whaddya know. The nuns were right about our permanent records following us around for the rest of our lives!
Bone? A word?
I mean this in the nicest possible way … get help!
I literally laughed