A warning was issued for a link in a signature that violated the forum rules, but no one was banned. The rules are clear and that you have so many 'points' you get before one is banned. Its temporary at first and if the same behavior continues, then it will become permanent if the same behavior continues.
I also point out that you are not being told the whole story either. However, I am not going to air it out here in the public forum. Suffice it to say that if the action that this person carried out here was done on the other board, there would have been no warnings, no second chances, nothing. I know this from personal experience. At least here you are given a chance to get back within the boundaries set by the rules.
No one likes being told they have done something wrong let alone face any type of consequences because of such actions. So I ask you keep that in mind as well. We arent out to drive people away, but we do have the rules in place to keep things nice around here and to keep things in order.
I can count on my hand in the 6 months this board has been on line the number of people we have had to issue in fractions to. Can you say that about the other place? Again, we have the rules for a reason and try to give everyone equal chances. I may have personally taken a different action because the offense has been a repeated one, but as someone pointed out to me what good are the rules if we ourselves (mods and admins) dont follow them.
Be sure you are getting both sides of the story and the truth at that. I hate to see you go, and would prefer you stay, but we will enforce the rules..
