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Okay, most people here are aware of generic forum etiquette, although maybe some of us have strayed a little from time to time. 
The thing is, Pav is quite obviously a fairly tolerant admin, but today I spotted one user had his status change to "banned". Whoah - WTF did he/she do!? I couldn't work out from the users posts, but they were presumably trollish and therefore edited - otherwise sreeja is one clever bot...
The forum FAQ is mostly about how to use the forums, rather than how not to abuse them, so I thought rather than ask Pav I'd give him an opportunity to let everyone know exactly what will not be tolerated. I've seen flaming, spamming and ladder-cheating go largely unpunished as far as I could see (except that some spam links were removed from one users sigs).
And what is with the green reputation symbol in users info? The banned user still has a green box, and so do the obvious spammer accounts - in fact everyone's reputation is green on oook. I'd have thought personally that suspected spambots would be a good target for getting the dreaded red box, so that more naive users may think twice about following the links they provide. After all, a real user would probably query a reputation change if they were innocent, but a spammer or his bot minions probably wouldn't.
Just wondering.
The thing is, Pav is quite obviously a fairly tolerant admin, but today I spotted one user had his status change to "banned". Whoah - WTF did he/she do!? I couldn't work out from the users posts, but they were presumably trollish and therefore edited - otherwise sreeja is one clever bot...
The forum FAQ is mostly about how to use the forums, rather than how not to abuse them, so I thought rather than ask Pav I'd give him an opportunity to let everyone know exactly what will not be tolerated. I've seen flaming, spamming and ladder-cheating go largely unpunished as far as I could see (except that some spam links were removed from one users sigs).
And what is with the green reputation symbol in users info? The banned user still has a green box, and so do the obvious spammer accounts - in fact everyone's reputation is green on oook. I'd have thought personally that suspected spambots would be a good target for getting the dreaded red box, so that more naive users may think twice about following the links they provide. After all, a real user would probably query a reputation change if they were innocent, but a spammer or his bot minions probably wouldn't.
Just wondering.
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