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I'm afraid the nuance you're trying to communicate is very much lost on me.Nuance is a thing. It gives staff and the CC a way of telling users they did cross the line, but there were forgivable circumstances, while also noting it in the record. Which is to differentiated from first-time offenders who may not have known their actions violated the rules of the site and get a staff warning.
The particular flavor of neurodiversity I've been saddled with has long left me with difficulty when there are no clear dividing lines between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. A major part of why I couldn't do a lot of normal sports like basketball was the rules about fouls being too fuzzy. Meanwhile, I thrived in martial arts where the increased stakes meant it was much more important to clearly define fouls.
My instinctive read of the "staff notice" vs "0 point infraction" distinction you seem to be drawing would be that it represents precisely that clear dividing line I would benefit from, where everything up to and including behavior that gets you a "staff notice" is acceptable, with the notice simply being a way to inform you that the line is approaching, and everything that gets you an infraction is unacceptable behavior, regardless of whether points were issued or not, with the number of points reflecting only the degree of unacceptability.
It is my experience with such systems that this is not what is intended at all. That you still need to change your behavior if you get a "staff notice" and if you continue to act precisely as you have after a "staff notice" this will eventually escalate to "infractions". The fact that you received a "staff notice" is treated as you having already been told that your behavior was unacceptable, not that you had been told your behavior was acceptable and that you were merely approaching the line.
I'd like it if it did work the way you describe, a world where I could treat a "staff notice" as confirmation that I didn't cross a line and where having a long history of "staff notices" was treated as a long history of official statements that you've been behaving in an acceptable fashion. Where such a history would be a mark in your favor rather than something that would be held against you.
But I don't think that's this world.
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