I don't penalize when I validate either. People only do that unless they keep on submitting wrongly after you've warned them a couple of times. Or insulted the validator.
Haven't actually penalized anybody yet, but those should be the situations.

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When in Danger or in doubt,
Run in circles, Scream and shout.

there are some automatic penalties to Avoid disproportionate penalties. but those are minor penalties. when you only have half information of a band.. you se houldnt get 100% of the points. and if someone does same mistakes again and again the penalties get higher... or they get blocked.
because sometimes its really annoying the validate 100 wrong Submission although the Submission guide + the model letters are quite selfexplaining.
there is no problem if someone make a mistake at all.. for that there are validations and for that there should be send corrections from the validators. but if the members doesnt even react to those correction requests (and this is unfortunately not a rarity) you can also understand some impatient of the validators. its not that there are 10 new submissions a day. there are hundreds and thousands that have to get validated. so there is no chance to write a big email for every mistake. for that we have the Submission guide.. and zillions of correct Submission already in the database to check.

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I get that, but I'm not asking for a large e-mail. Just something that would only take 30 seconds at the most to type. About the size of this post or even smaller.

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I remember having fun once, it was terrible...

and that is the way it should be. if its not like that please tell me which one send penalties without any note next time.

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I will do that
 
thanks for your help

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I remember having fun once, it was terrible...