Punishment Expiration is very misleading.

[Phantas]

As of my recent understanding the rules are very misleading in explanations of how punishment expirations work, 

It states '' Punishment Expiration: Punishments of non-severe nature (e.g., roleplay punishments such as PG, MG, DM) are considered old after 1 year and will not by default be taken into consideration when a potential punishment is issued. This does not apply to more serious punishments such as cheating, bug abusing, ban evading, server advertising, real-world trading, harassment, chargebacks, OOC Racism/Homophobia''

The way that is read by most players is if you have 5 Non-RPs with the oldest being Non-RP 1 on July 8th 2021. If you receive anther punishment on July 9th 2022 you would think it be treated as you on Non-RP 5 again. Unless this specific line is taken in to account ''considered old after 1 year and will not by default'' and an exception is made. That is actually not true. 

But in actuality as confirmed by moderators who state that way it is that Non-RP would actually be treated as Non-RP 6 as punishments only expire and are not considered when issuing punishments by the date of your last punishment. So in actuality you need to avoid catching any punishment for an entire 365 days. 

What I suggest staff do at the minimum is clarify punishment expirees further cause a lot of players to currently misunderstand the system. 
 

Edited July 9, 2022 by Phantas

[Ash]

6 minutes ago, Phantas said:

if you have 5 Non-RPs with the oldest being Non-RP 1 on July 8th 2021. If you receive anther punishment on July 9th 2022 you would think it be treated as you on Non-RP 5 again.

That is how it works.
The old one phases out and is considered old so you'd get NonRP #6 but with the punishment of #5. (The #6 is just to number them, but the punishment would be 5.)
 

[Phantas]

9 minutes ago, Ash said:

That is how it works.
The old one phases out and is considered old so you'd get NonRP #6 but with the punishment of #5. (The #6 is just to number them, but the punishment would be 5.)
 

My friend was just told an hour ago by a mod this was not the case and it was confirmed by head-admins. No need for clarification if this is how it works.