Not exactly sure why my friend recieved a 6 month ban

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Yes he has his own account. I just dont get how they claimed there was some kind of mod, (we have curse addons). His account was banned, and mine was not. His has been overturned tonight, But it seems pretty weird.

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Doesn’t work like that. Blizzard doesn’t ban just because someone on the forums assumed there was a rule violation. They use their own, quite extensive, internal data for all actions.

I think you’d be surprised how much the owners of a digital service can determine what people are doing on that service.

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Well, you are not gonna get a detailed explanation on how the detection systems works (exploiters and hackers would love that), just be happy that they overturned his ban

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blizz released a statement about this. 6 month bans were issued to everyone detected using the exploit. however, they did not intend to ban people only doing client side model alteration, they just want to give warnings to those people. so those bans were overturned.

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No they haven’t. :slight_smile: You may have misunderstood what happened in your experiences, as is frequent, but bans don’t happen because of what someone on the forums assumes. :slight_smile:

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This pretty much destroys your argument since you are doing an awful lot of assuming :slight_smile:

Thank you for that :slight_smile:

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So since we dont even know what client side model alteration is, how can one be banned for it? It also doesn’t answer why only one account was banned. If there is mod or software on the computers, wouldnt both be banned? Warnings for what? They dont really say what it is. I have administrator rights on the computers, and I am pretty sure in the last 5 months since it was purchased I have only downloaded 8 steam games, wow and overwatch.

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There are a plethora of players who do. You, personally, might not, but Blizzard doesn’t know that. Contrary to popular belief, Blizzard employees are human. To err is to human, and it does occasionally happen. Which is proven with your son’s overturned suspension.

Whatever he was doing to your files looked like the same activity that they doubled-down on yesterday upon first glance. But they can’t take the chance of “what if,” when it comes to keeping their game clean like this, which is what the appeals system is for, after the fact.

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I will rephrase my question. Why would my account not be flagged for a ban, but my sons was. If they sent their program to spy, wouldnt it say, oh hey look Adorapriest is using these client things? It just seems strange to have one account banned if there is ‘supposedly’ crap on my new computer.

How do these clients get on your computer if you dont download them?
Better question, we would like to know how to make whatever it is go away. We have done full system scans, and downloaded a malware to clean it. It comes up empty.

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Agreed 100% and errors can be forgiven. A bit of transparency, consistency would be awesome :slight_smile:

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What is with you and the constant “trust level folks” comments?

You’ve been pretty much borderline trolling in almost every post I’ve seen (on multiple threads). While you haven’t crossed the line yet, at the rate you are going it’s just a matter of time. Are you trying for a forum vacation?

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He’s trolling…trying to be coy about it. Report and Ignore him.

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Why is this still a thing?

The correct information has been provided. Open a ticket. Not a CS issue beyond providing that direction.

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Stop trolling. Your condescending passive aggressive jabs aren’t needed here and don’t help. The correct information has been given here and is the same thing Blizzard will tell you. All you are going to do is get the thread locked and could put your posting privileges in jeopardy. Vrak already had to warn you in one thread you derailed.

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I am being civil and not breaking rules and offering my opinions and observations. That is all.

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You’re being borderline rude and condescending and you make trolling and disparaging comments.

You just do it using a semi-pleasant tone and clean language. It will catch up with you eventually. The blues here aren’t stupid.

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No, you have trolled several times blatantly. No worries though,I’ve reported them. Up to the Mods now. Our opinions don’t matter.

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Don’t feed him, report and ignore.

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Nope. I’m doing a lot of knowing.

I say again: Blizzard does not penalize accounts based on assumptions from simply reading the forums. That would be completely ridiculous, and I really hope such blatant misinformation isn’t believed by anyone.

While I don’t dispute that you and your passive-aggressive smilies believe you’ve witnessed this, I can assure you that such a belief is false. But this is delineating.
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Facts of the matter are: no penalties are handed out automatically for anything. If you get a penalty like a silence or, in this case, a suspension, the only recourse you have is to appeal. Once you’re told to stop, then you can either make a new account and play honestly, or wait for the suspension to clear.

In this case it was a stronger penalty going out than should’ve. It’s being rectified, so more than ever you’ll want to appeal if you’re still banned and only did model alteration, because you may have been missed.

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