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Yup.I already refactored the disemvowel code to not duplicate all the tag handling between 'disemvowel' and 'scramble' but I'm not entirely happy yet with it.

Bumping this. I feel that we really need to 'fix' the use of the word 'infraction' in the English version, when 'punishment/sanction' is expected.

Any suggestions, from anyone, about a replacement word that wouldn't feel as 'threatening' as Pete fears..?

How about 'Penalty' ?

Ah, yes, that was one of the words used by Pete in the language files, if I'm not mistaken (along with Infraction, Sanction and Warning -- the latter referring, apparently, to the action of 'sending a sanction notification', but I'm not sure at this point, because some strings seem to see it as a synonym to 'infraction'... I told you, I'm lost!)

I'm fine with Penalty, or anything else really, anything that makes Pete happy ;)

I'm really not that worried about language changes. Most of this stuff is Just My Opinion (tm) and if others have better suggestions I'm all for changing them.

As long as the language is consistent to users, I don't really mind.

All I'd say is that I started from the premise that a warning is just a warning, a message just to say 'don't do it again', and that infraction is 'don't do it again and because you've been naughty...' whereas sanction... here you only hear it on the news in context of the UN blocking aid/support to countries.

Punishment and penalty are somewhere around infraction on the scale of 'strength of terminology'. But seriously, if people prefer different terms, let's do it.

Ok let me take a stab at this.

User breaks the rules, this is an infraction

Now that the infraction has occurred, what action will be taken?
*Warn the user without further action
*If action is necessary, issue some sort of punishment

So now the matter is what do we call these things?
*I'd say a notice that comes with no punishments should be called a warning.
*If some sort of punishment is necessary issue a citation maybe.
*Along with the citation you can issue punishments or penalties i see these as actions that can be taken such as:
** issue points
** remove signatures
** suspend / temp ban
** ban permanently.....etc

So instead of saying what punishment should occur, say what action should be taken.

I'm quite comfortable with issuing infractions because that's how I knew it to be, but i kinda get the language hiccups as well.