Final vB Testing

[Ryan Beal]

For those interested in some other nice stuff that's coming soon with vBulletin, you can read about 3.7 here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450763

Last major release before they devote most of their time to version 4.

[*TT*]

infractions have a time limit, is that the temp-ban feature or do the infractions actually expire?

[Ryan Beal]

Infaction points can be set to expire eventually or left permanent. This is all stuff you guys can decide at the time for now.

[MrWookie]

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Infaction points can be set to expire eventually or left permanent. This is all stuff you guys can decide at the time for now.

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Well, my question is, does anything happen before 100 points of infractions? Are there any lesser bans at lower levels currently?

[Ryan Beal]

Nope, nothing automatic except the 100 point permanent ban.

[MrWookie]

And if we award someone 100 points that we set to expire in 3 days, they'll still be permabanned, or will they be unbanned after 3 days? If it's the former, I think we need to improve that. If all the mods can do is give either a glorified warning PM or a permaban, that's pretty restrictive as to what we can do as mods to help get problem posters back in line.

[Ryan Beal]

Making auto temp ban levels and set infraction types restricts you more, whereas this is just giving you something extra and new. We've all functioned without a system like this for some time. Changing everything straight away because we have the feature wouldn't be the best way to go. It would be a lot for users to get used to as well.

The points can expire, and resulting bans are treated separately. So a permanent ban would still be so after the points expire, yes. For now infractions should be thought of as a tracked warning system, not what we use for bans in most cases.