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Can't think of one time that I have seen the 'report' button in game have any effect but giving some of the less savory characters in the game world a good chuckle. Not to say that it doesn't do anything, but the visible results just are not there most of the time.
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Around 80-90% of bans issued are from witnessed player-reported situations. I'd say this has more to do with people getting banned close to GST (people within that community reporting more frequently) if that's even a real thing.
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Thank you for providing a helpful response. I have a follow-up query: Is it totally unreasonable for the support team to give the player a reason for why they were banned? Especially when it's a long ban (and the player seriously has no idea what they have done to deserve it). "Inappropriate Solicitation" is a very broad term. My friend did ask for a reason but wasn't given one. Like you said, given that they were unwilling to lift the ban, they must have evidence of some kind of wrong-doing. Why can't they at least give this player a little more information so at least he knows why he was banned for 6+ months. Naturally he feels pretty slighted (to say the least).
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Nah, it's not unreasonable; when we first started doing the appeals process we did provide examples of what they were banned for, etc. It just obviously isn't the style of those that are currently doing it, so what can you do?
literally the exact same thing has been happening to Blood (dude on Alumni roster) for the past year
he gets banned for 2 months for "multiple bans," he comes back, plays an hour per week, then he'll randomly log on one day and he will be banned again for 2 months for "multiple bans"
it happened once again today, and this time he's banned for a year
kid doesn't even play the game enough to break a rule, I don't understand it
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What you've just described sounds like:
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People don't get banned for "no reason" and usually the players who claim such just have their accounts associated with someone else (through transferring accounts that they owned to other people, logging on other people's accounts, etc). This kind of scenario has always resulted in the unbanning of the account from what I've saw.
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So I guess not everyone gets unbanned from it.