On Tue, Sep 9, 2025, at 15:13, Toerless Eckert wrote:
Regarding your experiences receiving a PM warning and claiming"Either way, it was just a heads-up with no binding consequences, which was fine by me"You do not know if that will hold for the future. If future moderation actionsare raised against you in the future you can for sure expect those past warningsto be brought up in evidence against you to establish a pattern of disruptive behavior.
I see your point. As a counter point (and please note, this is a general comment, not specifically about this case, to which I haven't been paying much attention)...
Often when I get a warning, it prompts me to adjust my behaviour so that I'm less likely to establish a pattern or need another warning in future. So even if I think the warning was unwarranted or excessive, I was clearly doing something which the moderation team considered warn-worthy. Unless the thing that got me a warning was essential to my goals of posting to the list, figuring out how to not cause the moderation team to have to closely examine my messages is a pretty valuable side-quest!
Cheers,
Bron.
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