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    All Your Character Names: Astr0Duck, xHolyDuck, DKgoesQwack, QuackHead (storage)
    Last thing you did: Had just finished killing Ephinia on Astr0Duck, was walking around Ellin I think
    Why do you think you got banned?: Vote Abuse
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    Hi,

    Pretty sure I was banned for vote abuse, was a dumb thing to do. There's no justification so I'm not going to make excuses.
    I just want to know if I'm permanently banned or if I can come back after some period (and never do it again of course).
    Regardless, thanks for running this server and sorry for breaking the rules.

    Thanks
     
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    Actually, you were permanently banned for ban evasion.
     
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    Not sure I understand, I tried to log in again after getting banned but was unable to so, is that considered evasion?
     
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    Well I can tell you that definitely wasn't me as I only started playing this server maybe a month ago, but given the writing style I had a feeling it's my brother. So I just called and he verified that he's played this server before and been banned before...
    I didn't know that, and had asked him if I could use some of his old emails he doesn't use anymore for alt character creation, which I'm guessing is why you think I'm him... T_T
    Is there anything I can do to prove my innocence at this point?
     
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    Why would you need to use your brother's email addresses instead of just using your own...?
     
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    I wanted to make my alts on new accounts so I could multi-client which I was told is allowed, plus extra inventory storage.
    I don't have any other emails other than my main personal one which I only use for official stuff and I was just being lazy, didnt want to create a bunch of new emails just to use for this. I knew he has a lot of older email account he doesn't use anymore because of spam and definitely didn't think it was going to cause any issues like this :(
     
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    But you can create multiple accounts with the same email address, as you already know, as you have done so yourself anyway. So you could have just used your own email address(es) to create your additional account. What exactly were you trying to hide by using your brother's email addresses? Your entire story just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever so far.
     
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    wait what? no i didn't know i can create multiple accounts with the same email address! if that were the case I would have definitely just made all the accounts with the same email. what do you mean that I've done so myself all those characters are on different accounts with different emails
     
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    So that's it then? T_T

    I don't see how what I've told you doesn't make sense, I genuinely had no idea I could create multiple accounts using the same email.
    I'm not trying to hide anything and if I knew that I could create multiple accounts with one email then I would have definitely just done that.
    I didn't even try because it's pretty much standard on the internet that each account has a different email.
    Is there any way I can prove my innocence of ban evasion at this point?
     
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    I appreciate that this thread is still open. I'm hoping that means there are more internal discussions being had.
    Just wanted to thank you for your attention and please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.
     
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    you also signed up with the same birthday as your brother?
    that seems rather unlikely to us
     
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    We are fraternal twins, technically he is older by 3 minutes but we have the same birthday T_T
    It's also why we share a lot of stuff quite frequently, though he never told me that he played this server in the past (which I actually got quite upset with him about when we spoke).
    He said he was just 'checking it out' to see if it was good before telling me so we could play together.. but then I told him I know he got banned and that now he got me banned too because I used his email..

    Looking at things from your end I don't blame you for being skeptical, I really don't know what to do at this point because the stars seem to have aligned against me here.
    Even worse he's moved to Dubai, otherwise I would have immediately sent you a whitelist-style photo of him and I holding signs and all.
    I can PM you an old photo of us if that helps but I doubt you'd see much value in that.
     

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