I stopped the violation system completely because it's not efficient. Instead of violations you will now receive temp bans whenever you violate the rules.
FAQ:
what about existing violations I received? they are all removed and forgotten.
what is a temp ban? temp = temporary. this means that you are banned from the website or parts of the website for a certain time - until the ban expires. you can still view the website but you can't write stuff.
how long is a temp ban? the temp ban duration ranges from 5 minutes to 4 weeks (1 month) - depending on how much crap you do.
how can I avoid to be temp banned? read the rules carefully and don't violate them! http://www.unrealsoftware.de/rules.php
try to behave like a grown up and sane person that thinks rationally
can I still receive "real" bans that stay active forever? yeah of course. if you do massive shit or get temp banned all the time.
violations are nothing to be proud of. every violation means wasted time for a moderator or me. hate and anger.
they could be recovered by running a full server restore but that would take the whole website and usgn offline for some time and would reset its state to a time some hours ago. that's clearly not worth it...
@ Alistaire: Then I should hope he will add the old ones. So I don't need to get the most, as I already will have
I don't think it will be hard, as DC you have a page for mods and yourself showing all the temp. bans?
+ I'm wondering what I got banned for, in the past year.
Great news, they were completely useless. Once I received "illegal post" violation I was downloading some shit from TPB, so it did not work out that good.
Can you add a system to show on your profile page how much you've been temp. banned then?
Plz?
...surely not after reading the latest comments. people might think it's clever to "collect" temp bans. of course it's not. I'll increase the temp ban duration each time I have to ban you and you'll end up with an eternal ban.
this is not about collecting something. this is about keeping the forum clean and about punishing idiots for being stupid and for ruining the forum with crap waves and shit storms.
...surely not after reading the latest comments. people might think it's clever to "collect" temp bans.
Oh shi~.
Collecting temp bans ? Person to do this must be really have no brain at all.
Vilations was like....badges ? achievments ? So they was nice to collect in a some way
But temp bans...
violations were actually some kind of counter so I knew when to ban people. it wasn't clever to collect them either... (at least that was the idea behind it)