Consequences of warnings, Silencing, and Suspensions

[Lilly]

Discourse Moderation Guide. Can be changed to suit your forum of course and I would encourage this.

Discourse Moderation Guide

So you’re a moderator on a Discourse forum - congratulations! As a forum moderator, it’s your role to help oversee the forum, ensuring that users and content are in line with your TOS, FAQ, and other published rules/guidelines. Discourse comes with numerous tools to help you accomplish this. Let’s take a look at some common scenarios and see how each can be handled with Discourse. Welcoming New Users Part of keeping a community friendly and helping it grow involves being an example to others…

There is some info in this topic, including some helpful posts from @simon about the related default settings that can be overridden:

Let's talk Moderation

I believe that setting is used to set the default period for silencing or suspending a user when they are manually suspended from their admin page. It fills in the date that is set in the screenshot below, but it can be manually overwritten if you wish: [image] It would be great to see a moderation guide that gave examples of issues that have arisen on Discourse forums and how they were resolved. Even fabricated scenarios that mirrored what can happen in the real world would be useful. My s…

I would think that the consequences are forum-specific. My hosted forum that I am admin of has an explicit Code of Conduct that was written by forum staff and I also re-wrote their Moderation Guide to suit the forum specifically.