Why are these displayed? To me, it seems like if you go a while without any infractions, they should fall off your "permanent record." Posters should be allowed to have a fresh start, because I know I posted some stupid stuff when I was a n00bie. :D

I know that moderators are the only ones that can see infractions besides the person who is given the infraction, but having months old offenses displayed on someone's profile seems like stereotyping.

Just my two cents.

You can add notes to a posters account as well.

having months old offenses displayed on someone's profile seems like stereotyping.Stereotyping is such a negative word... Let's just call it "behavioral profiling".

You know, if I see somebody posting something which I suspect to be a scam, I wouldn't mind knowing if he/she has a history of posting scams ...
Same goes for harmfull scripts etc.

A tiger never truly changes it's stripes.

Well, that's true. I was thinking more along the lines of spam infractions; I don't really see a reason for those to hang around after they expire.

There's a scheduled task called Infractions Cleanup which (I thought) deleted expired infractions. Apparently it doesn't do that. It does some house-keeping, but I'm not sure what.

I can always add a task to delete them a month or so after they've expired. No reason for them to hang around forever. (Just added to my "to do" list.)