[user104658]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Members get automatically banned when they reach a certain number of infraction points, breaking the first threshold will get you a day ban and then they get more severe as they go on. The amount of points you get per infraction depends on what you've done and whether or not you break the rules on a regular basis. Someone who is constantly breaking the rules will hit those ban thresholds in a short amount of time as opposed to someone who only rarely breaks the rules. There's some exceptions to that of course but they tend to be rare.

Your friends get banned more often because they maintain a high infraction score while other SD regulars aren't really that close to being banned because they don't break the rules as frequently. The system is consistent, you just didn't understand it.

Yeah and there's a great skill in taking it right to the brink and then backing off, then going back in again, and each time you get that little bit closer to a ban, and then you back off again, and it can be frustrating, but in that good way y'know? So on you go, back and forward, sometimes pushing it so close to the limit that you worry you've passed the point of no return so you have to grip that little bit harder, back off for that little bit longer, because you know that the pay off - when you finally do get banned - it'll be the most explosive ban yet.

I think they call it "edging" or something like that.