Administrators Neil Brock Posted July 19, 2011 Administrators Share Posted July 19, 2011 If you fail to follow the rules outlined on our forums, we can infract for the reasons listed below: Types of Issue Infraction Points Length of Infraction PM Warning 0 6 Months Ban from Thread Topic 0 12 Months Using a car analogy to describe FM 5 12 Months Use of 'Fanboy' 5 12 Months Frivolous Post Reporting 5 12 Months Text Speak 10 12 Months Trolling 10 12 Months Illegal Download Discussion 10 12 Months Abusing Other Members 10 12 Months Foul Language 10 12 Months Spamming 10 12 Months Inappropriate Avatar 10 12 Months Posting gifs rather than adding to conversation 10 12 Months Persistent Anti-Social Forum Behaviour 20 12 Months Piracy 30 12 Months Spoilers 30 12 Months Extreme Abuse of Other Members 30 12 Months Requesting/Providing Illegal Stream 30 12 Months Not reading or Following House Rules 30 12 Months Abuse of SI Staff 30 24 Months Alias 666 Permanent Linking to pirated SI Products 1000 Permanent User Not Required 1000 Permanent With accumulation of these points users can be banned for periods of time as shown below: Amount of Points Time of Ban 10 24 Hours 20 48 Hours 30 7 Days 60 2 Weeks 90 1 Month 120 6 Months 150+ Permanent Ban Where possible we will use this points system to deal with users who continually break the rules, however as a forum we reserve the right to remove any user for any reason at any time. Saying that users will be perma-banned only in extreme circumstances, please help us to help you by obeying the rules of the forum. Please bear in mind moderating decisions are final and won't necessarily be shared with the user who raises the initial report. Whilst we do appreciate feedback, constant criticism or disrespect to decision made by Si and the moderating team will not be tolerated. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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