I got myself banned

Sam-Ho · Post by **Sam-Ho** » 09 Feb 2007, 01:14

Well, my brother and I were having an argument and I ended up getting myself auto-banned for flood. I have a few questions: Is this ban permanent? Do I need to do something to get unbanned? And is it possible to connect to my brother without connecting to the server?
Thanks for your time.

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » 09 Feb 2007, 01:21

Sam-Ho wrote:Well, my brother and I were having an argument and I ended up getting myself auto-banned for flood. I have a few questions: Is this ban permanent? Do I need to do something to get unbanned? And is it possible to connect to my brother without connecting to the server?
Thanks for your time.

lol you made some mistakes.

Sam-Ho · Post by **Sam-Ho** » 09 Feb 2007, 01:32

If it helps in any way, my account name there is SamHo, and my brothers is superppl.

superppl · Post by **superppl** » 09 Feb 2007, 01:55

Lol I just tried to connect and says that I've been banned for flooding as well. If were both banned does that mean we were IP banned? It will probably take me like 5 minutes to change the IP.

superppl · Post by **superppl** » 09 Feb 2007, 02:22

Problem solved I think.

Edit: took me 27 minutes because I was taking my time.

ralphie · Post by **ralphie** » 09 Feb 2007, 06:38

Wow, that's a new record for super awesomeness.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 09 Feb 2007, 07:19

Protip: ban evasion is frowned upon

Sam-Ho · Post by **Sam-Ho** » 09 Feb 2007, 07:36

Well, my idea was to find out how long was the ban, and what should I do if it was a perm ban. Should I have broken any rules, forgive me as I'll try not to do anything stupid in the future.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 09 Feb 2007, 08:07

yah, this is a situation where you pm a MODERATOR. It is considered bad practice to complain on the forum about a ban.

iamacup · Post by **iamacup** » 09 Feb 2007, 08:29

what you do is

1) go to $local tab

2) put

SAYPRIVATE [LCC]LordMatt Hello, I have been banned lordphail, can you unban me please, THANKS, LOTS OF LUV, CUPPEH

3) Press Down then Enter

4) GoTo 3

and he will go

KAI I R NUB I R UNBAEN JOO

yah, this is a situation where you pm a MODERATOR. It is considered bad practice to complain on the forum about a ban.

how exactly do you find out who is a moderator?

superppl · Post by **superppl** » 09 Feb 2007, 08:44

I have stuff to say/ask:
I couldn't do what iamacup suggested because I was banned of the server. Meaning I couldn't go to the local channel.
Neither my brother or I were complaining and for that matter complaining about anything on any forum is, as you put it, considered bad practice.
Why is flooding treated with a permanent ban? Most servers just do something like a 5 minute to 5 hour kick/ban. And we waited about a day before trying to connect.
Who are the moderators? Just for future reference.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 09 Feb 2007, 10:17

iamacup wrote:how exactly do you find out who is a moderator?

You poast in the game lobby forum... the one where people post about the game lobby.

manored · Post by **manored** » 09 Feb 2007, 15:09

Flooding can crash the server...

Sam-Ho · Post by **Sam-Ho** » 09 Feb 2007, 18:51

Well, thanks. Don't expect to see another "I got myself banned" thread from me again xD

iamacup · Post by **iamacup** » 09 Feb 2007, 21:40

smoth wrote:
iamacup wrote:how exactly do you find out who is a moderator?
You poast in the game lobby forum... the one where people post about the game lobby.

waste of time, i have better ways of dealing with bans, most involve spamming lord matt into submission

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 10 Feb 2007, 02:02

iamacup wrote:
smoth wrote:
iamacup wrote:how exactly do you find out who is a moderator?
You poast in the game lobby forum... the one where people post about the game lobby.
waste of time, i have better ways of dealing with bans, most involve spamming lord matt into submission

>_> Cup just hates me cause I'm 1337 @ LIFE.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 11 Feb 2007, 03:57

OFFICIAL STANCE: Ban evasion is frowned upon, but the system we use for flood protection is pretty lame anyways at the human level, so we unban by request for flood bans, basically they just saved us work by hopping an IP.

The flooding ban is permanent, the reason being that if we are attacked by an automated system it can't proceed in it's attack without a human intervening. If we were to be ddos'ed by 2000 machines and we allowed the ban to end after some fixed duration there would be nothing preventing an intelligent hacker from having each bot in the network automatically relogon after the ban expired, meaning a zero effort sustained attack.

The proper method of appealing a flooding ban is posting in the game lobby forum. We understand that new users don't know who all the spring moderators are, don't hark at them for not knowing a more efficient system for dealing with their problem. These guys missed the right forum, but the topic can easily be moved as well (we'll probably lock it soon though since the problem is solved)

Iamacup sux at life

Thank you, this has been an "official stance on the issue".

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 11 Feb 2007, 04:37

SwiftSpear wrote:OFFICIAL STANCE:
Iamacup sux at life.

Well if its "Official Stance" it must be true.

BlackLiger · Post by **BlackLiger** » 12 Feb 2007, 05:38

LordMatt wrote:
SwiftSpear wrote:OFFICIAL STANCE:
Iamacup sux at life.
Well if its "Official Stance" it must be true.

He's a webgeek, its a proven fact that members of thus species fail at life..... and pwn at most other things...

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