Please sit down before reading this. It may shock you. Use any of these words more than twice when an AOL sysop is spying on you, and AOL will terminate your account. An offense is a verified TOS violation that counts against the member.
Members start out with no offenses on their record.
Violations through E-Mail, chat, message boards, or instant messages can bring violators to their first, second, and third off ense. Once an account is terminated, we usually do not reactivate them. Each case will be considered individually. Any time a violation occurs, a history is left on the violator's account, and on the victim's account, if any. These histories stay active for six months.