Today, I have been banned by BladeBro in an act of, what i feel to be, complete and utter incompetence.
BladeBro came across one of my sales threads earlier today where I am selling an AGS pure and he, for whatever reason, thought I was hacked. Seemingly without bothering to gather evidence of any kind to back up his theory, he went ahead and banned me claiming:
"James doesn't even play RuneScape".
After which I've had to go through several mods and even provide them with a photograph of myself holding a piece of paper with the current date.
- BladeBro said to have checked my IP, which I doubt. I have lived in the same town since I was 7 months old and the last time I change provider was in September 2014. - Even if he did check my IP's, it has undergone no drastic changes and should NOT be sufficient reason to request a permanent ban on my account, for it to be recovered later.
- He said there were no matches to the IP address currently in use by my Sythe account. - As my IP is registered as non-proxy personal use IP address, surely this should be a reason for me NOT to be hacked ?!
- BladeBro evidently has gone through my recent posts and locked some of my sales threads. But even when being slapped in the face with SEVERAL of my sales threads made over the course of THREE MONTHS. All of which have been sold and all of these trades have been vouched for on my only vouch thread...Not even this would not make him reconsider his earlier decision, let alone try to contact me directly or through someone else, to check whether or not he was right.
- I have also conducted several other RuneScape related trades in the past six months and, they may not always relate to the account as I'm selling now. but it's still a fair indication of involvement within the game and, if anything, should show my account has not been hacked. Once again, most of these trades have been vouched for on my only vouch thread.
- A simple search in the RuneScape sections of Sythe.org would have shown 9 posts in the OSRS section in 2015. These would not be hard to go through by simply searching for my posts in the Runescape section. As shown here: LINK & LINK I have once more shown, on several occasions, to be active within the game.
- BladeBro is fully aware of the fact I know most of the admins on a personal basis, BladeBro is fully aware of the fact I know at least half the remainder staff team and I can't begin to imagine how many currently active users. Yet, instead of contacting them or me. He immediately placed a ban on my account, seemingly without evidence to support his theory.
- After BladeBro concluded I supposedly had my account compromised, he seemingly still didn't bother to contact anyone to inform me! My 2factor was enabled and the minirank was showing. If someone got through my 2Factor, my entire system could have been infected with malicious software to get my codes and still he seemingly saw no reaspm to contact me (in)directly.
- He claims that "over a dozen" exmods have been hacked recently and tells me therefore the ban was just a precaution. - A lot of exmods have been getting hacked, yes. however none of them had 2factor. Not a single one of them! But that put aside, even if there is a large threat and someone is actively hacking ex-mods, shouldn't you have proof before banning them? Or is suspicion enough nowadays to place a ban on an account which is possibly trying to do legitimate business. Not ONCE have you asked me to identify myself, not once have you even attempted to contact me. A ban off of an assumption is NEVER justified. Then again, arguing that this ban was precautionary, he should have NEVER stated the reason for this "precautionary" ban on my official sales thread, a thread used by customers to identify me and my legitimacy. Stating "James doesn't even play RuneScape" is clear as day. Let alone LOCKING my only active sales thread. This statement was so ignorant that I can't comprehend it and can't classify it as anything other than incompetence as to this point I have yet to find any evidence that I supposedly don't play Runescape and have shown there is plenty evidence on Sythe.org to show I am currently actively involved in the game.
- He has actively undergone steps to, literally, cover up the initial post he made on my thread. Though purposefully or not, this is NOT behaviour one would expect from a sectional moderator with not one, not two, but THREE moderator ranks under his username.
- With his actions, BladeBro has scared off several potential customers. Most of which are NOT returning out of fear I might be hacked.
I would like to discuss his course of actions, his reasoning and his covering up of the message posted on my original sales thread. After a general consensus has been reached I would like to request the upper staff to evaluate whether BladeBro's active role as a moderator in the Sythe community is an asset or a liability and act on this decision.
Please note that I have only seen BladeBro as an acting moderator in a handful of cases and have heard nothing but complaints. After personally being involved in a case like this, I feel my opinion towards this subject might biased. Besides that possibility, I have no insight in his monthly contributions and have not looked into his public posts when tending to reports and/or disputes. Therefore I simply do not have enough information to make an informed decision for myself and can only share my story.
Please let me be absolutely clear, these are experiences and opinions from
MY point of view. Please consider all information and possibilities on both sides before making your own.
Further links of interest:
Link to his original post:
http://puu.sh/inv05/f34c96255a.png
Link to Sales thread:
http://www.sythe.org/runescape-2007...ng-1-def-ags-pker-75-95-1-osrs-gp-rs3-gp.html
Link to dispute:
http://www.sythe.org/dispute-ban-twc/1848353-bladebro-you-incompetent-idiot-any-mod.html
