[Vocabulary] You will be infracted

[birdeen's call]

I visited another forum and I found this warning

Forum Rules can be found HERE. You will be infracted or banned accordingly for breaking any of these rules!!

I understand that being infracted must differ from being banned. What could "infracted" mean here? I could of course ask there, but I would also like to have the correctness of this usage commented on.

 

[5jj]

I visited another forum and I found this warning

I understand that being infracted must differ from being banned. What could "infracted" mean here? I could of course ask there, but I would also like to have the correctness of this usage commented on.

I think I'll go there and break a rule so that I can find out what it's like to be infracted. I have no idea.

 

[SirGod]

*Not a teacher

I think that the forum has a system similar to the warning system present on phpBB3. If you do something against the rules you are "infracted" by a moderator/administrator. Your warning level goes to, let's say, 20%. And so on until you reach 100% and you are banned.

 

[5jj]

After my last post, I googled the warning you had quoted, and visited quite a few other sites (not just English language sites). The English on some of them is - how shall I put it? – interesting.

It has been interesting, too, to look at the rules on some sites. On a few you can almost be keelhauled for failing to dot an i. I think I’ll stay here on usingenglish.

Keelhauling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


ps. Note that I am now the proud possessor of a UE infraction (see top right, under 'Member Type'). I wrote that I wanted to know what it was like to be infracted, and my Fairy Barbmother granted my wish.

 

[SoothingDave]

You might infract, but you can not be "infracted."

It's enough to give one an infarction.

 

[5jj]

You might infract, but you can not be "infracted."

I haven't infracted since my third birthday.
It cleared the room. :-D

 

[birdeen's call]

ps. Note that I am now the proud possessor of a UE infraction (see top right, under 'Member Type'). I wrote that I wanted to know what it was like to be infracted, and my Fairy Barbmother granted my wish.

I see nothing there, 5jj. :-(

 

[5jj]

I see nothing there, 5jj. :-(

Has my Fairy Barbmother arranged it so that only I can see it?

it looks like this:

Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 6,435
Home Country: England
Native Language: British English
Current Location: Czech Republic
Member Type: Retired English Teacher
Infractions: 0/1 (1)

 

[birdeen's call]

Has my Fairy Barbmother arranged it so that only I can see it?

it looks like this:

Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 6,435
Home Country: England
Native Language: British English
Current Location: Czech Republic
Member Type: Retired English Teacher
Infractions: 0/1 (1)

She probably has, since I don't see that!

 

[5jj]

And I was so proud of it.

Sigh.

 

[SanMar]

Keelhauling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

semi:shock: Had never heard of this one.


Not a teacher.

 

[Tdol]

I visited another forum and I found this warning

I understand that being infracted must differ from being banned. What could "infracted" mean here? I could of course ask there, but I would also like to have the correctness of this usage commented on.

It's a warning system and if a person accumulates a number of them in a period of time, a temporary ban kicks in.

 

[Tdol]

Has my Fairy Barbmother arranged it so that only I can see it?

it looks like this:

Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 6,435
Home Country: England
Native Language: British English
Current Location: Czech Republic
Member Type: Retired English Teacher
Infractions: 0/1 (1)

The software can see it, so be on your best behaviour now. ;-)

 

[5jj]

The software can see it, so be on your best behaviour now. ;-)

Yes, SIR. I will be a :lilangel: from now on.

 

[Tdol]

:-D