Closed Banned because of what exactly, really?

Discussion in 'Ban Appeal' started by benzer, Oct 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM.

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    ALL Your Character Names: Ebenzer, GodForgiveMe, HumbleKing, SinsForgiven (1 name each for 4 total accounts)
    Last thing you did: In game? Before I tried to relog to find out of this blockade, as most pros normally do is fight Wuling Yaoseng solo via multi-clienting if I'm not mistaken, just trying to do the bit of dailies and hit another 200 in MapleRoyals
    Why do you think you got banned?: I believe the ban was because quite a few of the community over here was bitter that my previous bans were too short, so the Game Masters decided to increase its duration further to fit my past crimes or something?
    Ban message when attempting to log in: Your account has been blocked for harassment.
    What GM banned you (optional): Probably the forum moderator because he seems to have a problem with me, or a combination of other GMs too?

    Alright folks, on the other hand since I had rethink about whether to make for another appeal after the first and second incidents, I'll just do it for the sake of "humoring" those who wants to witness another one? So yes, other than the third point of why I think I got banned, I'll provide my other conjecture that could possibly be the proper reason for people in power to initiate with issuing another of my 'much-favored' ban by the minority masses of MapleRoyals.

    So my guess that resulted in yet another in-game ban was because I had a conversation about someone item megaphoning his 125/2 Gold Dragon Knife that he had just made in which I asked for the current offer since I thought I might be interested to make it 129 with my anniversary 100% scrolls that I had gotten during Royals' 12th year anniversary event. So, this same person also told me that he happened to just make a 104/1 King Cent whilst I was typing for more details if I could make a bargain purchase of the dagger. It's a vague recall for me and I cannot even remember his name. I was just happening to be doing some ticket tries at Mushroom Shrine then actually. I did say he was lucky to have made that knuckle on the spot as I was typing in whisper and I said he had probably drained the luck from me as I didn't get the much-coveted chaos scrolls during my run, but he succeeded in scrolling another decent end-game knuckle. The conversation I'd say was mostly informal for the most part. He was probably secretively screenshotting those messages and sent it forth to report it afterwards? I don't exactly remember what the words were that I used, but I'm quite certain it's not anything explicit by nature at all and should not qualify for another ban for harassment, at least in my opinion really.

    If that's not the right guess, then please enlighten me of what exactly is my crime this time? I know it's more or less highly confidential or classified data that the GMs have to their advantage as evidence to ensure that bans are only issued correctly. If you're willing to provide some hints instead so that I might be able to realize my wrongs again, that'll be fine if I can figure out what I've done this time to receive yet another ban?

    Please do not desperately find every bit of opportunity to easily trigger anymore future bans after this one though if you don't mind and thank you for viewing my appeal, people. Have a nice day...
     
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    Your third and fourth strikes were due to incidents around the same time, although one was processed much later than the other.

    Strike #3: In cake, you were spamming stuff like "PLEASE ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST NOW AND BE SAVED FROM HELL" in all chat.

    Strike #4: You harassed another player by whispering her and calling her names, telling her she was going to "hell", and continuing even after she told you she was uninterested, and wanted you to stop.

    We do not allow this kind of abusive religious fear mongering on our server. Please re-familiarize yourself with our ToS, and in particular the clauses about hate speech. I recommend also reviewing this.
    https://royals.ms/forum/threads/regarding-hate-speech-and-political-propaganda.224298/

    You will be unbanned in January. Any further objectionable behaviour offences will be met with further 3 month bans.
     
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    To clarify, I am just a Forum Moderator, I can only issue bans on forums, but not for in-game

    Personally, I would strongly recommend you to not harass others in-game with religious matters (Christianity, Jesus etc)
    Depends on how it's worded, it may be treated as hate speech and not just propaganda
     
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    Your accusation toward Dave is unfair. As he has already informed you, he was not the person who banned you.

    You are obviously entitled to your religious beliefs. However, this goes both ways, and we ask that you are respectful toward others who might not share your beliefs. This here is just some of what you said to the player you harassed, even though they repeatedly asked you to stop. Every time you have been banned, I have been astonished at the extent to which you attempt to (1) paint yourself as a victim of unfair treatment (2) try and convince others that the actual victim was the one in the wrong.

    ^ That, and the comment from the cake map is not respectful of other people's freedom of choice. The comments in the cake map even made other Christians very uncomfortable. Our decision to ban you for violating our rules about hate speech is not "Christian persecution" or anything like that.

    Instead of playing the victim like you have done the previous three times you were banned, and now appear to be doing this time as well, you should instead reflect on your actions. If you want to be unbanned from the Shoutbox, you would need to make an appeal about it. However, you would have to convince us that you won't just whinge and play victim there. So far, I don't think any of us would be very convinced.
     
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