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I like the idea of this but wonder if a better system would be record gets wiped after 7 clear years.

So if someone is committing crimes every 3 or 4 years, the previous records show to reflect ongoing behaviour type, but if you have 7 'clear' years then all is wiped.

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It's 7 years after the punishment ends, which, yeah, if it's been 10-15 years since you've committed a crime, it's unlikely you've somehow been biding your time, waiting to commit the next one.

I think thats how Steam does it :)

After 7 years of no more VAC/game bans the previous ones disappear.

lmao, steam having a better criminal system than US is something that i wasn't expecting ho hear today

gaben for President!

Nope. I still have my one and only VAC ban on my profile from 4995 days ago, it's not going anywhere :)

Though possibly Valve handles it differently for first party games, this was for Modern Warfare 2.

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