We apologize for the instability of composr.app and appreciate your patience. We are working on the statistics addon and trying to find an optimal way to store and render data. Unfortunately, we have yet to find a solution that can handle the traffic (and therefore, tens of millions of statistical records) of composr.app. We're working hard on one.
Like "strikes" as in "3 strikes and you're out", or "points" as in "they have 2 points on their driving license", or "cards" in soccer. I think some software calls this a reputation system.
Presumably staff would draw up some standardised chart to show how many demerits particularly actions warrant? Like swearing is maybe just 1 demerit, but abuse is 3, and willful non-compliance with mods is 5?
I was thinking more on the lines of points on a driver's license. However, it could theoretically be used either way; for a strike system, staff could assign one point/demerit per warning (re-translating it to the word "strike").
Reputation is different as it involves upvotes / downvotes / ratings rather than punishments, though some reputation systems do consider punishments and reduce reputation when someone gets punished. I have an idea for another addon for a reputation system; but my thoughts on it are not concrete enough yet to present it on the tracker.
My thinking also is that as you mentioned, staff would make or follow a guide that dictates how many points / demerits to assign based on the warning and the severity of the warning.
I've ultimately decided to close this issue. I believe the upcoming karma addon for v11 will be enough to suit the needs which this idea would have also targeted. And having both karma and demerits will introduce a bunch of confusion.
Presumably staff would draw up some standardised chart to show how many demerits particularly actions warrant? Like swearing is maybe just 1 demerit, but abuse is 3, and willful non-compliance with mods is 5?
Reputation is different as it involves upvotes / downvotes / ratings rather than punishments, though some reputation systems do consider punishments and reduce reputation when someone gets punished. I have an idea for another addon for a reputation system; but my thoughts on it are not concrete enough yet to present it on the tracker.
My thinking also is that as you mentioned, staff would make or follow a guide that dictates how many points / demerits to assign based on the warning and the severity of the warning.