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[⚔ Kirito]

Say a moderator warns a member for an offense they never committed, or perhaps you got drunk one night and started warning various members of your forum you didn't like for no apparent reason.
(This was not a real life example, don't worry.)

Or more realistically, a member appeals their ban/warning and you decide to accept their appeal.

What do you do? Well, first you probably apologize to the member and scold your bad moderator if the warning held no merit.

But then what? You want to revoke the warning and any action that was given to the user with the warning, right?

Well, you can remove any posting restrictions or suspensions manually, but you can't really ever officially revoke or "take back" the warning.

The best you can do is manually edit the users warning level, or even delete the warning from the database manually if you so wish. The first option still leaves the warning listed on the users account, unless you decide to warn the user again (without increasing their warning points) just to leave a note that the last warning was repealed. This can be confusing to your other staff members.. and even you, if you're as forgetful of an admin as I! The second option is more permanent, but it obviously requires the client to know how to venture into their database and manually delete the warning entry.

Well, I've got a simple solution!

Allow staff members to repeal warnings and suspensions!

The permission for repealing bans can be assigned on a per-group basis. You can have it set where only you (the administrator) can repeal warnings, or you can give it to your moderators if you so wish.

Warnings can be repealed through the MCP or through the users warnings page directly.

Once a warning is repealed, the points attributed to that warning will "expire" and any actions attributed with that warning will be automatically reversed.

The warning will still be viewable by staff members and even the user himself, but it would be "grayed out" and displayed as repealed or revoked, no longer active.

The staff member that repeals the warning may also give a reason as to why the offense was revoked if they so wish.

[Morgin]

I love this idea.

[Marius]

You can add value -1 to reason for warning to prescribe old sanctions.

[⚔ Kirito]

You can add value -1 to reason for warning to prescribe old sanctions.

That may work as well, but it's still "warning a user to remove a warning," it isn't very logical in itself.

[Rimi]

And it adds on to the warn log. I think you're looking for an option to remove items from the warn log.

[IPS_Fan]

Say a moderator warns a member for an offense they never committed, or perhaps you got drunk one night and started warning various members of your forum you didn't like for no apparent reason.
(This was not a real life example, don't worry.)

You should warn yourself, restricting your account from posting for 24 hours.

[⚔ Kirito]

Bumping because I still believe this is a needed functionality.

[Neil2]

Good idea especially if you want to warn IPB user and there is a IPB1 user and you or a staff member happens to mix them up and issues a warning to the wrong user, this way the innocent user can see it was a mistake without a crap storm and countless PM's explaining it was a mistake.