Bans

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This thread hopefully will be a resource where people can come and see the length of their bans, depending on what they did and what their offense was.

As far as I know, there are credit bans, quitting bans, bans from Waypoint and then permanent bans for hacking, etc. What I need from you, the community, is how long each ban takes place per offense and what the criteria are for the specific bans. Thanks in advance for any contribution/ helpful suggestions and corrections/ modifications.

Quitting Bans

**Description:**When you have quit to many (specific amount?) games in _ amount of time, you will first be put on probation, and if you quit again, you will not be able to play matchmaking for 10 minutes on the first offence.
**1st Offense:**10 minutes, _ quits in _ amount of time
2nd Offense:_ minutes, _ quits in _ amount of time
3rd Offense:_ minutes, _quits in _ amount of time

Credit Bans

Description: When you are banned from earning credits in Halo: Reach temporarily or permanently as a result of illegal credit boosting. This constitutes guest boosting (having an idle controller), AFKing, and disconnecting your internet to repeatedly get challenges.
1st Offense: _ hours
2nd Offense: _ days
3rd Offense: _ days

Bans from Waypoint

Description: When a user has violated Forum guideline(s) and/or Forum Rule(s), a community leader or admin may decide its severe enough or it might have been the offender’s _ violation so they will be banned from Waypoint for a certain amount of time.
Offences include:
Spamming: Ban can be anywhere from _ to _. Average ban for this offense is _
Flaming/Flamebaiting/Attacking other Forum Members: Ban can be anywhere from _ to _. Average ban for this offense is _
Promoting cheating/grieving: Ban can be anywhere from _ to _. Average ban for this offense is _
Calling out individuals: Ban can be anywhere from _ to _. Average ban for this offense is _
Discussing modified/hacked content on the Xbox: Ban can be anywhere from _ to _. Average ban for this offense is _
Impersonating another person: Ban can be anywhere from _ to _. Average ban for this offense is _
Trolling/ engaging those that are: Ban can be anywhere from _ to _. Average ban for this offense is _
Creating alternate accounts: Results in permanent ban of one account and either temporary or permanent ban of the other account.
Bypassing the profanity filter: Ban can be anywhere from _ to _. Average ban for this offense is _

Permanent Bans

Permanent Bans can result from any of the following:
-Repeated trolling
-Flaming/flambaiting/attacking other forum members
-Hacking of any sort
-Making a secondary account

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I recently got a credit ban yesterday, i found out that its probably only 24 hours. However, i can tell this is automatically done cause me and my friends weren’t credit boosting, but achievement boosting, which isn’t illegal in Halo, thats up to Microsoft. So technically we were credit banned under false pretenses. I know its so people can’t boost credits, but it should be monitered better so that achievement and credit boosting are sepereated. Im not saying i support achievement boosting, but it was just me and some friends getting some of the difficult ones and having fun. Not trying to rank up or earn extra credits.

Is there a way to file a complaint or excuse incase this happenes again (which i dont think it will since i have all Halo Reach Achievements and i dont think there will be more until Halo 4)?

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AFAIK credit bans are 24 hours, then 2 weeks. Not sure.

> I recently got a credit ban yesterday, i found out that its probably only 24 hours. However, i can tell this is automatically done cause me and my friends weren’t credit boosting, but achievement boosting, which isn’t illegal in Halo, thats up to Microsoft. So technically we were credit banned under false pretenses.

In Matchmaking, in multiple recent or consecutive games, the players that got the credit bans (or their guests, if on split-screen) failed to get any kills in Slayer gametypes. Am I correct?

Bungie lied pre-release and said they can detect AFKing. In reality, they can only guess at it by seeing if someone got 0 kills in a Slayer game.

> Is there a way to file a complaint or excuse incase this happenes again (which i dont think it will since i have all Halo Reach Achievements and i dont think there will be more until Halo 4)?

Nope.

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> In Matchmaking, in multiple recent or consecutive games, the players that got the credit bans (or their guests, if on split-screen) failed to get any kills in Slayer gametypes. Am I correct?
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> Bungie lied pre-release and said they can detect AFKing. In reality, they can only guess at it by seeing if someone got 0 kills in a Slayer game.

Yes thats correct. There were many games wehre me or my split screen player didnt get any kills. Its seems to avoid this will be at least giving my main profile and guest a few kills every game to trick the system in that we are playing. But like i said, i wont be achievement boosting unless Reach has more coming, which i doubt with Halo 4 coming out this year.