Creatures Wiki:Punishment System

If a user violates the rules, they musst be punished of course.

(1) For a first offence at breaking the rules, a user will be warned via personal message to their account by me (The Administrator) or by one of my moderators. Their comment/thread/article/picture/link will be simultaniously deleted from the forum.

(2) If the user ignores the warning sent to them via personal message, they will be exiled (suspended) from the forum for a fixed period. They will recieve a personal message telling them of the suspention, the reason and how long it will be. First ones can range from 2 hours to 1 month depending on the fequency and nature of the incident(s). After reciving the Personal message, their account will be suspended after 30 minuets to give them time to read the message. After being suspended, they will not be able to view the forum through their current account untill the suspention has ended.

(3) If the offender continues breaking the rules after the suspention has ended, the user will be suspended a second and final time. The second suspention will usually be longer than the first (typicaly around 2 days to 1 year). They will recieve a personal message aswell.

(4) If the offender continues to harras the forum (break the rules) after the second suspention has ended, a permanent Ban will be issued. This will involve the users account being locked and I will prevent another user with the same name from registering to the forum. All bans are usually permanent (unless i recieve a formal appology via email)

(5) In an extreme case, if the offender creates another account and continues to break the rules, the Deputy Administrator or Administrator (I) will IP address ban the offender. This meens that the forum will block that IP/Internet address from viewing the forum. I can also detect Proxy servers so if the user tries to use A Proxy server to get on the forum, i can ban them that way aswell. This is usually the final step.

(6) In a very extreme case, if the offender switches IP addresses, the Administrator (I) or Deputy Administrator, will issue a city-wide IP address ban. If this affects valuable contributors, they will be unblocked.

(7) In an exceptional case, if the offender uses an IP address outside the city, a country-wide IP address ban will be issued. Like the city-wide ban, if the country-wide IP address ban affects valuable contributors, they will be unblocked.