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Originally Posted by mcyates

I think you have toooooooooooo many variables!!!!

Use incremental banning periods?
Number Of Days Members Are Banned

I still think its the Warn Maturity which is confusing me!! As this can contradict the ban length.

OHHHHHH MY BRAIN!!!

The warn maturity is not contradicting the ban duration. Think of it this way. A member commits a ... "crime" and gets a warning for 3 points. The guy is not a bad guy, he just didn't read the rules correctly. So from there on, he behaves. Should those 3 points be with him for ever? I do not think so. Maybe, after 10 days, or three months, depending on the ... crime, the points get removed. If this is fixed or variable, it's up to you. You can have the same maturity period on all your warning types.

The question is, what you do with a member who keeps commiting offences, until he gets banned. Do you still keep his warning points after he is banned, or do you erase them and let him start from scratch when he is unbanned? The more I think of it, the more I believe that we should clean up his records, to give him a fresh start. The other way around can be confusing.

Can other people who have installed this hack jump in and tell us their opinions?

Rgds
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John