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Ladyolake
Jan Member 2008

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I was at GE and overheard some converstations.

This led me to have a question myself although i did not know the people discussing the bans nor am i banned.

The question related to the sticky here in the community led account help about "Banned account info"

Specifically this comment in the 3rd section of that thread here is copy paste...


I appealed but was denied!
Unfortunately this means the of the road for your banned account.
Each ban gets just one appeal chance.
Jagex need to see clearly that you were not in control of your account at the time of the offence.


So the question that they were discussing had to do with that comment i just copy/pasted.

Is that comment saying that if Jagex does not see clear evidence of a hijacking then they dont even bother to look to see if a macro happened or not? So hijacking would equal an unban and no hijacking would equal the account not getting unbanned.

Thanks for anyone with the answer to that.
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02-Apr-2023 06:22:33

sarfernab123

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If I am understanding the question here correctly:

Does the JMod investigate ban cases and only determine that an account is wrongly banned based on whether the account was hijacked or not?
(i.e. if account was not hijacked = reject appeal / account remains banned)

If the above is not the case, does a JMod investigate for other factors (i.e. wrong detection of macro) to determine if an account has been wrongly banned?

To add light to this case, there are evidently cases where accounts have been wrongly banned / unbanned, upon further investigation.

Do correct me if my understanding of the question in point is wrong! :)

02-Apr-2023 06:33:49

Ladyolake
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Well, Sarfernab123, I dont know the anwer but yea so based on what i saw at GE then after reading the forum thread that they referenced, I had that question.

The way i read the answer that Malua had posted ... I did just copy paste that part of the
thread I had questions about.

If you want to read the whole thread the quick find code is: 408-409-479-66034999

you can just put that number in the search bar or its the 4th stickied thread and its the 3rd post in that thread.

But yea after reading that post i sort of got that impression that if there was clear evidence of a hijack then the ban appeal would be accepted but if there was not clear evidence of hijack then appeal denied.

My question really is.. if I am correct in what i understand about hijackings and apeals denied/accepted then..... Do they actually check to see if there is a macro detected or not. Or like i said a couple times now... hijacking =appeal accepted... no hijacking=appeal denied.

Just wonder if that is the case or not.
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02-Apr-2023 06:44:51

Asahel Frost
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Hi Ladyolake.

The place to start in answering your question are the Terms and Conditions that every player agrees to when by logging in to the game. Here is snippet from clause 11:

Original message details are unavailable.
11. JAGEX STOPPING YOUR ACCOUNT

If, acting reasonably, we consider that:

1. Our Terms or any Jagex Product rules (including the Game Rules) - have or may have been breached or will be breached; and/or
<SNIP>
In our sole discretion, we may at any time: (i) Stop (as defined above) any or all of your Accounts for Jagex Products

"Stop" means ban.

So the only thing that needs to happen for an account to be banned is that Jagex's system detects something that looks like cheating, and in the case you are asking about, the cheating is macroing, so this will be based on the inputs to the game client - do these look automated?

Note, it only has to look like macroing, so if someone is making manual inputs that look like macroing then the account could be banned - the above T&Cs allow for that. So if, for example, someone tapes over the movement sensor on a mouse, then spam clicks the same spot on the screen the account could be banned according to the T&Cs above.

Now to appeals.

Strictly speaking (according to the T&Cs quoted above), all Jagex have to do is check that (for a macroing ban) the inputs to the game client do indeed look like macroing. Since it's in the T&Cs, they will always do this when a macroing ban is appealed.

However, Jagex do something extra, which they are not obliged to do by the T&Cs, which is to look and see if the account was hijacked at the time of the macroing. Since this is something 'extra', then there's a fairly high bar for this check - there has to be clear evidence that the account was hijacked before they will unban the account. If it's at all in doubt that the account was hijacked, then the decision reverts to the T&Cs, which is that an account which appears to be cheating is banned.
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02-Apr-2023 10:42:56 - Last edited on 02-Apr-2023 10:51:32 by Asahel Frost

2_Tron

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Hey Ladyolake, this ... what you have brought up ... '
Question about bans
' ... is what is moving offenders for 20+ years, Jagex/JMods knowing that all to well mostly avoiding such discussions.

You have ... '
clear evidence
' ... data that clearly encompass said offense that has been committed,

... and there's '
the story
' many offenders will use to circumvent the penalty, getting an account unbanned.

20+ Years, offenders are cooking/brewing the best of their stories to pursue Jagex/JMods to provide them a '
questional circumstance
' that might them (Jagex/JMods) doubt about the decision they listed to said offense/account.

The evidence is clear ... no doubts ... but the question is ... '
should we continue to cater these petty stories
'?

Normal/Regular accounts, playing RuneScape as it is, never will get in these circumstances but a 'certain amount of them do'.

02-Apr-2023 10:58:42

Ladyolake
Jan Member 2008

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Asahel Frost,

Thanks for your reply.

As I mentioned, the conversation at the GE led me to believe that only accounts that were obviously hijacked could be unbanned.

overseeing that conversation just made me curious, so I do appreciate you clarifying with
your statements.

I hope all you guys have a wonderful day!!!

ladyolake
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02-Apr-2023 11:00:58

2_Tron

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Original message details are unavailable.
...

If you want to read the whole thread the quick find code is: 408-409-479-66034999

...
The problem here is that you have to redirect players to the '
Rules of RuneScape
' and/or '
Terms & Conditions
' given by Jagex/JMods on every webpage of Jagex's Website.

Jagex/JMods have written all those rules in pretty clear language, even for me to understand clearly, although I am not english, and there's nothing that is cloudy making it hard to understand.

The thread(s) you are referring to are not my kind of thing I would redirect players to as that only leads to more confusion and more disputation.

02-Apr-2023 11:06:33

Ladyolake
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Ladyolake

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2Tron you are correct about me sending someone to that thread because that conversation about that thread was what made me ask the question i did.

I understand the rules of runescape. I follow them. I only had question about that copy/paste part of that thread i mentioned only because some pple in w88 GE were discussing it. so I was just curious.

So my question was simple.. if there is no evidence of hijack do they still look for evidence of macro.

I wouldnt have ever even thought to ask that question, as i mentioned had i not oversaw a conversation about the specific thread and part of thread i copy/pasted.

I do appreciate you guys discussing this with me as i had always thought that if you had a macro ban then that would be what they looked for not "just" evidence of hijacking.

unless anyone else has anything else to add as i do understand the rules etc, i was just asking about a particular converstation i oversaw and the exact post/thread they were discussing. The thread here can be locked. As i stated, was just curious about that one post.

Thanks to all of you for talking with me about this.

Ladyolake
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02-Apr-2023 13:55:41

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