Yes, I know I'm ban evading, sorry. But please hear me out before you ban me and delete this thread.
I was banned for piracy. This is, please excuse my language, but this is utter bullshit. Not that you ban for such an offence, but the fact that I was banned for such when I did no such thing. Yes, I may have said that I downloaded my game, but I downloaded it from the disc that I own, that I bought from a store that sells games. From the game disc that I bought with my own money. I'm playing the game in the other room right now! It's in my Gamecube, waiting for me to hit that Start button and resume playing.
But I got banned for piracy because you have a hair-trigger for bans.
I would not be so upset if I had not been in the process of explaining this when I found out that I was banned. I went to submit my response explaining that what I did was not illegal, that owning a copy of a game that you bought and only copying it for personal use on one computer was not piracy. Then I couldn't submit it because I was banned forever.
Please give me a moment while I calm down and put together a less spirited, more logical post that hopefully doesn't offend anyone any more than I may already have. I apologise for my brash tongue and any insults I may have implied.
On to the subject of my post, a ban appeal system would be nice. Perhaps give them a couple of days or a week before they are fully banned, or maybe even a warning system, so that they might explain their actions or learn not to do it again while still being able to contribute to the community. In my case, I didn't feel the agreement in signup was adequate in explaining what would happen if you broke the rules, or even adequately explained this particular rule. I simply thought it meant not to encourage downloading or speak of what website you downloaded things from or ask about it. I thought that mentioning it in passing was still acceptable, if frowned-upon. This is what I understood from what I read.
Now I realise that the appeals would probably be full of dumb cases of people just being mad, but if they fail to present a logical reason why they should not be banned within the time period given, you can delete them and have done with it!
I was banned for piracy. This is, please excuse my language, but this is utter bullshit. Not that you ban for such an offence, but the fact that I was banned for such when I did no such thing. Yes, I may have said that I downloaded my game, but I downloaded it from the disc that I own, that I bought from a store that sells games. From the game disc that I bought with my own money. I'm playing the game in the other room right now! It's in my Gamecube, waiting for me to hit that Start button and resume playing.
But I got banned for piracy because you have a hair-trigger for bans.
I would not be so upset if I had not been in the process of explaining this when I found out that I was banned. I went to submit my response explaining that what I did was not illegal, that owning a copy of a game that you bought and only copying it for personal use on one computer was not piracy. Then I couldn't submit it because I was banned forever.
Please give me a moment while I calm down and put together a less spirited, more logical post that hopefully doesn't offend anyone any more than I may already have. I apologise for my brash tongue and any insults I may have implied.
On to the subject of my post, a ban appeal system would be nice. Perhaps give them a couple of days or a week before they are fully banned, or maybe even a warning system, so that they might explain their actions or learn not to do it again while still being able to contribute to the community. In my case, I didn't feel the agreement in signup was adequate in explaining what would happen if you broke the rules, or even adequately explained this particular rule. I simply thought it meant not to encourage downloading or speak of what website you downloaded things from or ask about it. I thought that mentioning it in passing was still acceptable, if frowned-upon. This is what I understood from what I read.
Now I realise that the appeals would probably be full of dumb cases of people just being mad, but if they fail to present a logical reason why they should not be banned within the time period given, you can delete them and have done with it!
