What are you supposed to do if you cannot post a thread?

Whatever settings I was put on meant I could not create a thread. On all forums - including this one. I could still post, just not create a new thread. The button was not available to create a new one.

There also appears to be some issues with the system for warnings. They don't automatically disappear after they "expire" so I don't know whether that is by accident, or by design, but it renders the expiry date irrelevant.

No. The button was not there. It was not something someone told me. I think it also said it under the "warning status" that was on my profile. Not a message from an individual person.

It might be a bug in your settings.

If you had had a sticky thread at the top that people could post into to request a thread be opened for them, then that would be a possible workaround.

I had thought to raise it in someone else's thread, but we aren't supposed to post in other people's thread on here.

It may have happened to others, but because they couldn't start a thread, they couldn't raise it and just left it.

Yes, I am at level 2 now. But I had the other one a few weeks ago. I got a warning that I wanted to dispute but I couldn't post here at the time.

I don't know what way the "levels" are supposed to work but it appears that they stay even after expired. So that I had an expired "level 1" and then I'm at "Level 2"

The most recent warning was for this: It appears to have been deleted. But here is the link in case you can still see it: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119392084#Comment_119392084

It simply said:

The poster was basically trolling me and pretending to ask nonesensical questions such as "how does a country get temporary EU status". I eventually give them a link to the EU Directive under which Ukrainians were granted temporary protection in the EU. The same poster was going on about how their daughter was denied a place in university and was asking me to write a synopsis of the directive. The same poster later said admitted they don't have a daughter.

No. I got a warning one day for what I though was a harmless quip to a poster on some thread about landlords. The landlords always go mental and get emotional over the fact that they can't evict tenants onto the side of the street on a whim and the fact that they have to pay income tax on income they receive.

The next day, there was a thread about adoptees and rights etc. I tried to ask a very neutral question about rights accruing to providers of genetic material. I used that term because it is specific and and accurate. It is also the type of language used in legislation. I got warned and threadbanned for it. I was suddenly unable to start a thread to appeal it and ignored by the moderator in question.

Why did I use that term - well because, after adoption your parents are legally the people who adopted you - the same as it they had been your parents in the "traditional way". If you are not adopted, then your parents don't need to be the ones who provided genetic material. You can have

1) A surrogate who gives birth is the mother under Irish law. She will not have supplied any genetic material. But she is the birth mother. If a surrogate carries your child, you don't have any automatic rights. You can accrue some rights automatically if your husband/partner is registered as the father as a result of some recent changes but that still takes 3 years to vest.

2) A woman who receives an egg donation will be the birth mother, but also will not have supplied any genetic material

3) A man who is married to a woman who gives birth benefits from the legal presumption of paternity, and is automatically by default the father, whether or not he supplied any genetic material.

I wasn't asking about parents, I wasn't asking about birth parents, I was asking about the people who provide the genetic material which is neither always the same thing as parent, nor birth parent, as explained above.

The point would be that if you grant absolute rights based on provision of genetic material, then you open up a huge can of worms. You have a sperm donor who thought they were anonymous, being suddenly responsible for the resulting child. Or on the flip side, you have a sperm donor arriving on a couples step demanding access to his genetic child. Or the birth mother demanding access from the adopting parents. Or you have a rapist demanding access to a child that was conceived as a result of that rape.

So the point being that I would be surprised if there would be "very few" of level 3 cases as it happened very quickly to me.

Also, I don't know whether this is by design or not, but the warnings remain on profiles after the "expiry date". So it appears they still accumulate.