Where is a penalty issued?
In the member profile or with the /reprimand command in Discord. Permissions are checked the same way in the panel and in the bot.
Penalty types, their limits and durations are set on the server, so a verbal warning means the same thing from any leader.
Escalation turns several light penalties into a strict one by itself — you set the threshold, nobody counts by hand.
The appeal goes through stages: submitted, task, evidence, decision. Requests from the site and from Discord land in the same table.
In the member profile or with the /reprimand command in Discord. Permissions are checked the same way in the panel and in the bot.
No. Counters are kept per server and are never summed.
With synchronisation on, penalties and removal appeals are mirrored into a forum thread — every step of the appeal is visible there.
No. Inactivity records an agreed absence, but it does not remove penalties and does not pause time in a position.