# warnings - eventual expiry?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [July 16, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361 "2017-07-16T01:15:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/1 "2017-07-16T01:15:21Z")
Couldn’t find in the rules anywhere about the expiry of a warning, especially a relatively [innocuous one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19870714&postcount=80).
Or are they a permanent blemish that we must bear as a badge of abject [shame and remorse?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oabcM9SOF-E)
Would like to find this out in the hope it can get lifted so I can go on a crazy threadshitting spree.😉
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/2 "2017-07-16T01:22:13Z")
Warnings are a Mark of Shame on your Permanent Record. They don’t expire.
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### Author:  [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/3 "2017-07-16T03:36:25Z")
Warnings do not expire, however older warnings are given less weight when it comes to further action.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/4 "2017-07-16T04:02:39Z")
Sounds like a golf handicap, although your older scores do “expire”.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/5 "2017-07-16T05:11:14Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#):
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> Or are they a permanent blemish that we must bear as a badge of abject [shame and remorse?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oabcM9SOF-E)
Be aware that they can’t be seen by anyone else but mods, and we only look at them in the case of a new offense.
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### Author:  [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/6 "2017-07-16T10:54:35Z")
Can posters see their own warnngs anywhere?
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/7 "2017-07-16T11:28:45Z")
Yes, displayed in their usercp
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/8 "2017-07-16T12:22:04Z")
It’s bullshit, is what it is. I had a sweet gig at another message board in the bag until they ran the background check.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/9 "2017-07-16T14:06:36Z")
Extreme vetting is a bitch!
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### Author:  [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/10 "2017-07-16T14:07:42Z")
Just curious … is threadshitting for the sake of threadshitting an offense that is immediately bannable for all, or is that applied only to me?
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/11 "2017-07-16T14:42:01Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#):
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> Just curious … is threadshitting for the sake of threadshitting an offense that is immediately bannable for all, or is that applied only to me?
I don’t think one offense of threadshitting is immediately bannable if you have no previous warnings or suspensions, but it undoubtedly contributed to one recent banning.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/12 "2017-07-16T16:42:09Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#):
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> Just curious … is threadshitting for the sake of threadshitting an offense that is immediately bannable for all, or is that applied only to me?
Only you. You are currently the only poster who is on our list for immediate banning in the case of threadshitting. So watch your step.😉
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/13 "2017-07-16T17:01:39Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> I don’t think one offense of threadshitting is immediately bannable if you have no previous warnings or suspensions, but it undoubtedly contributed to one recent banning.
But that was some Olympic-level threadshitting.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/14 "2017-07-16T18:28:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> But that was some Olympic-level threadshitting.
Yeah, but he had some other warnings and a suspension on his record, so that was strike three.
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### Author:  [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/15 "2017-07-16T22:04:17Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> Only you. You are currently the only poster who is on our list for immediate banning in the case of threadshitting. So watch your step.😉
Ha ha ha ha … I see what you did there … very funny …
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/16 "2017-07-16T22:21:16Z")
I’d say they do eventually expire, since mine only go back to 2009.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/17 "2017-07-16T22:35:44Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#):
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> Ha ha ha ha … I see what you did there … very funny …
You’re also on our watchlist for excessive ellipses…
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/18 "2017-07-16T22:41:05Z")
> [@dropzone](#):
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> I’d say they do eventually expire, since mine only go back to 2009.
That’s when we initiated the automatic system that registers your infractions on your profile. Before that we compiled them manually. You actually have warnings back to 2004. And before that they may not have been consistently compiled.
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### Author:  [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/19 "2017-07-16T23:21:29Z")
Jokes aside, surely it’s silly to keep warnings on file for years and years? A five year old warning for a not particularly egregious remark made during a heated exchange really isn’t an indicator of anything.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-eventual-expiry/791361/20 "2017-07-16T23:25:19Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> It’s bullshit, is what it is. I had a sweet gig at another message board in the bag until they ran the background check.
Oh man. You’re one of the three funniest posters here.
ETA: 😃
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