Warning points visible?

[Staffan]

I happened to click on a poster's name in a thread and was surprised to see this piece of info:

Clicking onward to the poster's profile I could see the specific things that had incurred the moderators' wrath. Is that really something we commoners are supposed to see?

I remember asking previously for being able to see the profile and search for posts by banned forum members out of curiosity about what had lead to them being banned, and was told that allowing that probably wouldn't lead to anything good, which I can see. But isn't this basically the same thing? Well, except the poster isn't currently banned, but it's still the same sort of thing.

 

[Theory of Games]

Everybody listen I got something to say: It's better to be banned than to fade away!

 

[J.Quondam]

This surfaced a few months ago, in an older thread. Relevant posts start here:

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Post in thread 'On warning points...'

Feb 25, 2025

With the recent forum upgrade, several permissions-based changes happened unintentionally, and this seems to be among them.

Just on this. I noticed today if I click on someone's profile I can see warning counts *(e.g. 5/5 or 7/11) - is it intentional that we can see others warning counts?

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No real info in there, i don't think, but there it is if you want to take look.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Another prominent site actually intentionally puts the entire discipline file for posters out where the public can read it and, yeah, it's not great, especially since there's no public appeal -- it's a site with ... idiosyncratic moderation -- and trying to state your case in public quickly ends in a ban.

I assume the points are out there at ENWorld unintentionally.