"Throw-away" e-mail addresses refer to services, most of which we've already banned, such as 10 Minute Mail that provide a one-time e-mail address. If your e-mail address is with an actual provider (Google, Yahoo, or what have you), you're fine. I know several people use character and game-specific e-mail addresses from real providers.
Regarding the new 20 point limit, that is only from this point forward. I thought about resetting everyone's warning level, but that's a fair amount of work, so we're just counting from now.
Regarding your request, Warren, if you're really serious about it, please drop me a PM and we'll talk about it.
Regarding the advertising ban, it's really for commercial advertising only and is just to clarify what we do with ad groups -- which is ban with extreme prejudice. I've gotten most of the worst sources via IP bans at the web server level, but we want to be transparent, so the rules are there so everyone can see them. :)
Regarding the Twitter approach, that's interesting, but I don't think we can do that in MyBB without a lot of coding.
And finally, regarding the notifications on posts for warnings, we'll take that one internally to discuss. I've noted I'm not a big fan of it, but I do like at least PMing someone to let them know why they were warned (which is an option in the warning control panel).
We know people will have bad days, which is why we wrote the system how we did and are emphasizing trying to defuse things in addition to having consequences. There's also a bit in there about PM notifications for first time mistakes and leeway for exceptions if necessary. Like I said before, if you're at least respectful to your fellow members, you'll never have to worry about this. :)
Regarding the new 20 point limit, that is only from this point forward. I thought about resetting everyone's warning level, but that's a fair amount of work, so we're just counting from now.
Regarding your request, Warren, if you're really serious about it, please drop me a PM and we'll talk about it.
Regarding the advertising ban, it's really for commercial advertising only and is just to clarify what we do with ad groups -- which is ban with extreme prejudice. I've gotten most of the worst sources via IP bans at the web server level, but we want to be transparent, so the rules are there so everyone can see them. :)
Regarding the Twitter approach, that's interesting, but I don't think we can do that in MyBB without a lot of coding.
And finally, regarding the notifications on posts for warnings, we'll take that one internally to discuss. I've noted I'm not a big fan of it, but I do like at least PMing someone to let them know why they were warned (which is an option in the warning control panel).
We know people will have bad days, which is why we wrote the system how we did and are emphasizing trying to defuse things in addition to having consequences. There's also a bit in there about PM notifications for first time mistakes and leeway for exceptions if necessary. Like I said before, if you're at least respectful to your fellow members, you'll never have to worry about this. :)
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