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Originally Posted by mcyates

One questions

If i set the banning length to 7 days this means:

1st Ban - 7 Days
2nd Ban - 14 days
3rd Ban - PERMANENT

But what if the maturity of the ban is 30 days, does that mean the person will be banned for 30 days? or just 7? My bannign limit is 10 points and some of my warnings are for 10 points!!!

OK, let's clarify these things up:

Maturity: The period over which the points associated with a warning, affect the user's account. When the maturity period of a warning expires, then the points associated with that warning are removed.

Ban Duration: How many days a member will be banned. In order for a member to be banned, he/she has to collect the maximum warning points defined (banning limit). The initially defined ban duration, gets multiplied by the number of bans if you use incremental banning.

So the maturity of a warning does not affect the duration of the ban. If a warning carries the same number of points, as your ban limit, this means that the moment the member gets warned for that particular warning, he/she is also banned. How long will he be banned? As long as your ban period is, unless if you use incremental banning and the user has more than zero bans.

So yes, if your banning period is 7 days, first ban=7 days, second=14 days, third is permanent (if that's what you have defined in the options).

How long will those warning points remain into his account? As long as the warning maturity was, in this case 30 days. After 30 days, the warning will be removed.

You have indeed a point here. If a member commited enough offences to be banned, should after he is banned still carry the maximum warning points, and all his warnings, or shall we consider his warnings "punished" and remove them? I mean he was bad, he as punished, shall he starts at the edge again, or shall we give him/her a clean start, after he/she gets unbaned?My opinion is that the warnings and the associated points should be removed. If not we end up with someone who has 10 warning points, coming from 5 warnings, (which points if added can be more than 10) and who is not banned, even though he has the maximum warning points. You said messy? You bet.

Let me know of your opinions on this matter, I can change the hack to act in either way, depending on a Warning Option, or I can make it permanent to have the warnings removed (or made inactive), once a member is banned.

Rgds
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John