# When you get a warning...

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-get-a-warning/675517
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**Created:** [December 4, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-get-a-warning/675517 "2013-12-04T21:55:20Z")
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### Author: ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-get-a-warning/675517/17 "2014-01-08T17:10:46Z")

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> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> How long do warnings stay on your record? If you get two warnings say five years apart are you officially a hooligan?

Pretty much what **silenus** said. We’re all human and we all slip up now and again; what the mods are looking for is not the occasional goof, but repeated behaviors despite multiple warnings, over a fairly short period of time.

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