Punishment board
Reasons and base times are the same for everyone and staff do not pick durations. Repeat offenders get longer punishments; behave and you go back to the base on your own.
Reasons and base time
The base is the time for someone with no penalty points. Each punishment adds the points shown.
Bans
| Reason | Base | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Cheats | Permanent | — |
| Racism / xenophobia | 1 week | 8.5 |
| Bug abuse | 1 week | 8.5 |
| Giving info (ghosting) | 1 day | 5.5 |
| Trolling / griefing | 1 day | 5.5 |
| Ignoring STAFF | 6 hours | 3.5 |
| Report spam | 3 hours | 2.5 |
Mutes and gags
| Reason | Base | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising | 1 day | 5.5 |
| Insults and offences×2 open voice | 6 hours | 3.5 |
| Voice changer×2 open voice | 6 hours | 3.5 |
| Needless provocation×2 open voice | 3 hours | 2.5 |
| Spam×2 open voice | 1 hour | 1 |
Automatic (AutoMod)
| Reason | Base | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Forbidden language (chat gag) | 3 hours | — |
| Chat spam | 1 hour | 1 |
| Links and IPs in chat | 1 day | — |
How the time is worked out
- Each punishment adds points
Points depend on how serious it is: the longer the base, the more points (1 for spam, 3.5 for an insult, 8.5 for racism).
- You lose 1 point every 3 days
Penalty points go down on their own at 1 point every 3 days and never go below 0. A single insult is gone after about 10 days.
- The time doubles every 4 points
When you are punished, the time is the reason's base multiplied by the points you still have at that moment, rounded to the hour.
time = base × 2^(points ÷ 4)
How much it goes up
| Penalty points | Multiplier | One insult gets |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | ×1 | 6 hours |
| 4 | ×2 | 12 hours |
| 8 | ×4 | 1 day |
| 12 | ×8 | 2 days |
| 16 or more | ×16 | 4 days |
Examples
You get the base: 6 hours. You have 3.5 penalty points, which reach zero after about 10 days. If you are not punished again, next time is the base again.
Monday 6 hours; Wednesday about 10 hours; Friday about 16 hours. On an open-voice server, for a mute or silence, that would be 12, 20 and 32 hours.
Open-voice servers
On AWP and Arenas everyone hears everyone. There, mutes and silences for insults, provocation, spam and voice changers get the time ×2. Gags (text chat) and bans do not change, and points are the same on every server. The plugin reads the server's voice settings at the moment of the punishment.
Safeguards
- Punishments given within 10 minutes count as one episode for the calculation.
- Automatic punishments (AutoMod) only make spam longer; they never raise an insult or a ban.
- Above ×4, the penalty points must come from at least two different staff members.
- The time never goes above ×16 the base, and a temporary ban never goes above 90 days.
- A lifted punishment (appeal accepted or a mistake) stops counting and its points disappear.
- Cheats is permanent and outside the scale. The paid unban still exists only for permanent bans.
- Anything not on the board is judged case by case.
See your penalty points on your profile, in the Punishments tab. Questions? Open a ticket on Discord.
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