Long term ban instead of permanent ban

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A long term ban instead of a permanent ban

  1. 1. I agree with a long-term ban and I am an active player.

  2. 2. I disagree with a long-term ban and I am an active player

  3. 3. I agree with a long-term ban but I am a permabanned player

  4. 4. I disagree with a long-term ban but I am a permabanned player.

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  1. Aradia Megido
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    @Dave Deviluke I didn't have time to double check and wasn't expecting a mod to include them without checking if they make sense, because right now options 3 and 4 don't make any sense. Could you change the poll to include options that actually now make sense? (Yes I double checked now this error won't happen again)

    1. Check this box if you are an active player who agrees with long-term ban.
    2. Check thtis box if you are an active player who agrees with permanent ban.
    3. Check this box if you are a permabanned who agrees with long-term ban.
    4. Check this box if you are a permabanned who agrees with permanent ban.

    It is implied the ban we are talking about is for major vote abuse, because that's the reason OP is
    permabanned but it's up to him if he allows other permabanned players who are banned for other reason that isn't major vote abuse to express their opinion for example account sharing bans.

    @Kamayuks Language barrier again my bro, next time I'll make sure something actually makes sense even before suggesting it.
     
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    The poll options weren't added by the mods, and we don't interfere with poll options unless requested to do so or being reported

    As Kamayuks is the thread owner, I am only able to update the poll options if he wants to
    But as previously mentioned, please do consider the poll options carefully
     
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    I think the poll isn't really important things,
    poll sometime just provides someone's view point same or agree, because I am first time to use this function so I doesn't know the biases you means will be serious like that.
    In a word,poll not main thing in the article now is fine with that.

    Can we just back and talk about the topic in my article ?
     
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    I not stopping you guys from discussing, just that leodexe would prefer us to update the poll options accordingly

    And that's something you guys have to work it out

    You guys may ping me if need me to update the poll options
     
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    Thank you for your help and understanding.

    I am appreciate about that.
     
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    Yeah but I am not botting or hacker or something like that so I can't hardly said the example like that, I just can say mine opinions.

    I means the most Banned like me Just want chance to change ourselves I am not sure they think about so I missed up.

    but now the poll be changed is it enough ?
     
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    Maybe we can add more choices to this voting issue.
    Here is my suggestion:

    1.What kind of player are you?
    (1). Active new player (play mapleroyals for 1-4 weeks)
    (2). Active long-time player (play mapleroyals for several months or years)
    (3).Banned new player
    (4).Banned long-time player

    2.What's your opinion about this issue?
    (1).I agree with long-term ban instead of permanent ban when voting abuse first time. Because they may not read T&C carefully and made mistakes unconsciously.
    I think they didn't vote abuse on purpose and there should be an alternative punishment for this first time offense.

    (2).I disagree with opinion (1). Because voting abuse may destroy the balance in game. They did this on purpose.
    And they should get a permanent ban even if it's their first time offense.

    (3).Other opinions
     
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    Can this voting system be made, like the example given by bish above, technically? Two votes, two things like this
     
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    Not possible to have 2 votes
     
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    no vote abuse in polls pls :adminban:
     
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    Hello Dave I have asked friends that the poll options should have to change.

    here's our final idea for this topic

    1. I agree with a long-term ban and I am an active player.
    2. I disagree with a long-term ban and I am an active player
    3. I agree with a long-term ban but I am a permabanned player
    4. I disagree with a long-term ban but I am a permabanned player.

    Separate the options between permanently and activate player that should be not biased and will be more Referential.

    Could you help me again ?
     
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    I’m gonna be a buzzkill again and say that the sample of the survey is going to be highly skewed and inaccurate as there has to be the assumptions that:

    1) Permabanned players actually still linger forums and will see this thread/survey and actually reply
    2) Permabanned/active players alike will be honest with their replies

    *There is still not a response for a nuanced opinion of retaining permanent bans while including long-term bans on specific situations.

    I think the tough part of this discussion on bans is that it is a highly detailed and scenario-specific topic. Perhaps a public survey is not the best way to approach a topic as nuanced as this and maybe offering detailed, case-based solutions to specific articles in the T&C would be more appropriate for feedback?
     
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    Have adjusted the poll options accordingly
     
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    I didn't think of permabanned players actually leaving the forums but your assumption makes more sense I guess. I would consider myself an active player but instead I'm playing in another server so I'm not that really active anymore. Just in the forums maybe? I would like to help OP and prevent this thread from being forgotten since many input has been given by many different players and I'm not gonna bump it for the sake of bump. But on the least this thread should deserve more attention. The new poll options was my idea btw gonna admit it isn't the best one and can be improved but thanks for pointing out that anyways. I'm just thinking that not 100% of permabanned players will leave the server without trying to ban evade but asking if permabanned players are still here so they can voice their opinion when naturally they should not be here in the forums now feels very dumb to me.

    What people do when get permabanned? They either ban evade or leave the server. Kinda lika a 50/50 and a poll won't accurately reflect this, just like you said.
     
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    If a permabanned player keep reading the article on forum instead of ignoring everything about mapleroyals, maybe it represents he wants to find another way to come back to mapleroyals.

    Maybe someone got permabanned when voting abuse first time. T&C says if you vote abuse first time, you will get a temporary ban. However, if the situation is serious enough, you still get a permaban.

    In Kamayuks previous reply:
    "You can vote many times on Gtop website directly if you want instead of coming from mapleroyals website"


    If this is true,
    Perhaps someone found mapleroyals on Gtop and voted abuse unconsciously.
    They just only want voting for the games they like. However, this result in a permanent ban punishment for their account.

    Maybe there should be a chance for voting abusers to play mapleroyals again.
    I think this situation isn't as serious as hacking or rwt issues.

    It's not that serious to get a permaban.
     
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    Thank you for your reply.

    I've thought about what you said, but it's really difficult for me to find several typical types that can convince the GM team, because I don't know the details of those cases.
    I only have the information given by my friends, which is quite narrow, but the information you put forward is very important. I'll try to do it

    Because I have something to do in the real world, I Can't reply to articles very often, but anyway, this is just a discussion topic, and I hope other GMs and players can express their view points.

    Since I don't have more case information to discuss, there are only some statistics on players' replies.

    Maybe I should focus on discussing whether players will change after being punished or not?
     
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    I'd like to clear the air by stating that it is very hard to vote abuse on MapleRoyals 'accidentally.'
    The Admins check every nook and cranny, review every possible outcome, and they already keep innocent/unaware players in mind while checking for vote abuse. (Hence minor vote abuse rule.) Furthermore, there is a very big difference between somebody who had already voted the morning of on their main account, and then throughout the day accidentally votes again using a different source for their other account, than somebody who’s constantly vote abusing on 2 or more accounts daily.

    If you vote on one account, and then vote again before the reset on that same account using a different Internet source; the website will tell you how much time you have left before you can vote again.
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    If you vote on two different accounts using the same Internet source, it will also tell you how much time you have left before you can vote again.

    If you click on Vote for NX, it will tell you that you are only allowed to vote once per day in red text before typing in your Account ID.
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    If you have more than one person playing in your household, there is text underneath the red text explaining what you have to do to make sure you do not flag any vote abuse checks.
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    If you go in-game and have either: an annoying lightbulb over your head from Shanks, or you are level 7 trying to leave Beginner’s Island, you are forced to do a mandatory quest called ‘Safe Adventures’ where you have to answer questions about MapleRoyals’ Terms and Conditions before you are even allowed to leave the Island.
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    If you are voting directly on Gtop100 without clicking the Vote button on MapleRoyals’ website; you will not get NX at all because the voting page has a check in place in order to even give you NX in the first place. Your votes will still go through on Gtop’s end, but you will never see the NX because you didn’t put in your Account ID at the voting portion of our website.

    If you are using a link from Gtop100 that contains your account ID on Gtop, then the vote will go through, but just clicking on Gtop100 and voting will not give you anything because there is nothing linking your account to that Server to credit you the NX.

    To put it very bluntly, it is very difficult to vote abuse accidentally.

    As Sen said in the first reply, there is no way your friend got permanently banned for vote abuse just by simply spamming the button because ‘it’s slow.’ There is definitely more to that story than they are willing to admit. If you spam the button because Gtop is slow, you will receive the message “You have already voted, come back in X amount of hours/minutes.” (Source: This happened to me quite a few times! I resorted to spamming the button just to see the red error message to know that I would get credited for my NX back in the day. I kept voting but I wasn’t getting any NX so I resorted to spamming the button just to see if my vote actually went through lol.) I also fully support the idea presented to add a sentence letting players know that vote abuse is bannable within the red text when you go to vote! I think that would be a wonderful addition to add. ~f2

    I will say this though, when I was a player back in 2019 and earlier I did find some of the ban appeals to be alluring, and in a sense I fully believed most of them to be innocent. However, seeing what I can see via access to the Banned Player logs I’ve been seeing a lot of people lying just to gain sympathy via the ban appeal section. With that being said, there are innocent players out there as well, and all of us will go the extra mile just to make sure those players are helped in whatever way we can.

    An example would be there has been a couple ban appeals about hacking and the player swearing up and down they didn’t hack, etc. However, the video evidence clearly shows vacced mobs literally flying directly to their character and then attacking them, or other versions of hacking programs that they were using. ~f18 So now we have a hacker sob story being viewed by the public, when in reality they were caught red handed.

    I’ve seen tons of vote abuse ban appeals where they feign innocence and swear they’ve only voted twice, three times, etc. But then when I check the Log for Banned Players and the Admin’s post where they describe/show the evidence, it’s an entirely different story than what’s being told to the public via the ban appeals.

    If I could offer advice for anybody who actively reads ban appeals: You only know the story they want you to hear, not the full version.

    We are unable to provide the evidence publicly due to the current vote abusers constantly lurking on our Forum. We do not want them to know what is being checked for, and how the Admins discover them, and how the Admins determine if it is a minor or major case.
    Please understand that the Admins are already very thorough, and also keep in mind that we are willingly volunteering our free time to do this for the community because we are all genuinely trying our best to stop whatever game abuse we can. Things take time when an Admin is needed to check over literally any appeal dealing with RWT and vote abuse. We are not a major gaming company like Nexon themselves, we do not have the luxury of having a 24/7 tech support system in place to help with issues and the ban appeal process. All of us are volunteering our free time to help the community as best as we can. We have lives outside of the game, we have families, we need to pay bills, we are mostly all on different time zones too, etc.

    We really are grateful for this community, and we appreciate every discussion. Thank you for genuinely caring about the Server as much as we do too! ~f2

    Edit: I'm focusing on Vote Abuse because that's what the initial post is about.
     
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    "Very thorough" :confused:~f18~f12

    feels bad when you get reported for RWT with fabricated evidence ~f8 and you get responses like

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    and they don't even check all evidence so it's not even worth fighting LOL
    shouldve asked the owner if i paid him real money for his stuff. Also why would i pay real money for items when he is perma banned LOLOLOL you real funny timk
     

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    Of course it's not nice to be reported with fabricated evidence. But because we are very thorough when investigating, we are able to figure out whether or not evidence is fabricated and take the appropriate action.
     
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    so that day the website was down (ddos?) and I attempted to use the link, I’m not getting the NX? ~f4
     

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