[UniqueMe]

How easy is it to get banned from TSR?

Also what do you have to do to get banned?

[Mad Vlad]

(Original post by UniqueMe)
How easy is it to get banned from TSR?

Also what do you have to do to get banned?

Extremely. Post here asking to be banned.

[James82]

DDoS attack?

[mr tim]

You can also get banned by breaking the rules, although this isn't a good idea. Best way is to post a thread in the forum in which Vlad gave you.

[rmhumphries]

If you mean in relation to persistent rule breaking, you have to amass 15 warning points and you get banned for a week. Next time it will be longer, and then after a certain number of times you will get permabanned. Extreme rule breaking (e.g. posting porn) can get you perma-banned in one go I believe.

[Add!ction]

By being a douche.

[Dalimyr]

(Original post by rmhumphries)
If you mean in relation to persistent rule breaking, you have to amass 15 warning points and you get banned for a week. Next time it will be longer, and then after a certain number of times you will get permabanned. Extreme rule breaking (e.g. posting porn) can get you perma-banned in one go I believe.

Most of that is wrong
If you have 15+ active warning points at any one time, you'll be given a one-week ban. This is the case regardless of whether it's your first or your hundredth ban (though if you've got to 100 bans without us perm banning you then something's gone horribly, horribly wrong ). There are some very rare circumstances where a user may receive a longer-than-normal ban (it doesn't happen often, and I can only think of one or two instances all year that it's happened), but the default is always one week and additions to that must be made manually by a mod.
The far more common way for someone to be banned for longer is that they start using duplicate accounts to get around their ban. The ban is applied to the person, not the account - some sites might not care if you get banned and instantly come back with another account to continue doing the same nonsense that got you banned in the first place, but we happen to think that if you get a ban from the site then it means just that - you're not allowed to use the site until your ban expires. Evading a temp ban with a duplicate account will result in ban extensions normally of a week or so, along with a permanent ban for the duplicate...but if you start taking the piss with that then once your ban is long enough (I usually do it once they're up to a month-long ban) you'll get a threat that if you create another account to get around your ban then you'll be permanently banned, and that is not an empty threat by any stretch of the imagination - just a day or two ago I perm banned someone whose temp ban literally had just one hour left because they'd been given that very threat last month and they chose to ignore it. Anyway, I'm going off on a bit of a tangent here. The ban extension thing can also apply regardless of whether it's your first or tenth or hundredth ban.

There's also no "certain number" of bans, it's all down to mod judgement, and we'll always discuss amongst ourselves what action to take with more established members. We specifically don't have a set number of bans before we boot you out because, let's face it, if we had a set limit of (say) ten bans, you created your account in 2003 or 2004 and got nine bans back then but you've been behaving yourself perfectly fine up until you posted some porn in 2012, it'd be harsh for us to perm ban you now when you've been behaving yourself for eight or nine years before a solitary incident that got you banned. Normally it's when people get a number of bans in a relatively short space of time that we start wondering where we're prepared to draw the line, and once they overstep the mark we've agreed upon then they get an alert informing them that their next ban (on any account and for any reason) will result in them being permanently banned. There are exceptions to this, with the most common being with 'newbie' accounts - people who have just recently joined and who we feel have signed up solely for the purpose of breaking the site rules (whether it be trolling the forums or spamming the place with adverts or porn or whatever), they'll likely be given no advance warning and they'll be given the boot immediately. And posting porn is an automatic temp ban, but isn't necessarily an automatic perm ban.


And while I'm replying here, just a point worth mentioning. As Mad Vlad and mr tim both mentioned, if you wish to be banned by request then the simplest and least hassle-free method is by simply posting in AAM and asking to be banned. We unfortunately do get a few idiots who think "I need a break from TSR. I'll just post some porn to get banned for a week". But once they do that one too many times, we get fed up banning them and clearing up the mess they leave in their attempts to get banned, so they get that alert telling them that next time they're gone for good. If you intentionally break the rules to get yourself banned, it's not really possible for us to see that this ban was intentional to keep you from procrastinating on the site while that one wasn't. We just see your record of picking up lots of bans and clearly ignoring your warnings/bans and decide we won't put up with it any more. With bans that are requested in AAM, our records still tell us that you were banned on this date or that date, but there are no accompanying warnings to reflect that you were banned by being naughty and there's an AAM thread we can reference which will let us know that it was a ban that you requested, and those bans will not be held against you if we end up discussing whether you are to continue having a future on the site