# What is the Statute of Limitations on Modding? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 21, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-statute-of-limitations-on-modding/987334 "2023-07-21T00:20:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-statute-of-limitations-on-modding/987334/21 "2023-07-22T02:29:55Z")
Check through this post. It may help clarify things a little. Or maybe not. > [@What is the Statute of Limitations on Modding?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-statute-of-limitations-on-modding/987334/7): > > Not very likely. But there aren’t really rules on timelines for modnotes. If it had been a warning it would be rescinded in this case as it is well past any arbitrary time limit for warnings. That is probably less than a week, definitely less than a few weeks. No, no need. But there are some exceptions to this. We had a prolific poster caught up in his own many lies about himself. Some pieces going back many years. It was solid proof of their trolling the board and they were Banned. Said pe… But an old post from months ago is not going to get warning. If it did get a warning, the warning would be overturned down to a modnote probably and an apology. But modnotes note really have a time limit, but rarely would this happen. Mostly, this whole thing was caused by … > [@What\_Exit](#): > > It looks like all of the confusion today was caused by the dumbass way dates are displayed by Discourse. Your post read **Jul 21** instead of **Jul 21 2022**. Probably wouldn’t have been flagged if **the software wasn’t dumb about dates** and probably the flag would have been rejected as happening 364 days ago if **the software wasn’t dumb about dates.** Finally, stop misgendering is a good note. It needs to stop as that is a board rule. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-statute-of-limitations-on-modding/987334.md?page=1)