Why Did I Get Banned - The Official Thread

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> Oh, and by-the-way… Why don’t you guys POST these friggin rules somewhere we we can READ them so we know what we’ll get messed with by you for!!! If they’re NOT posted, they SHOULDN’T be in power over the Halo community!!! So far, no one has been able to give me a straight answer as to why I was Credit-Banned!!! With NO rules posted, how is anyone supposed to know this crap!!! I would have grabbed his controller from my neighbor and gotten a few kills if I’d known you’d be judging my performance!!! So WRONG, SO WRONG!!! Fix this!!!

These are the rules Bungie used for Halo 3 & Reach.

The ban hammer has remained unmodifed since then, so 343i follow the same rules, I’ve PM’d a few people asking for updated rules like that in the original post, however, no reply to any, I know, you are upset for being banned falsely, but the only evidence remaining to prove you were not AFK, is the game history, which shows zero kills in many games, in a court, it would be in 343i’s favour due to the solid evidence of the game history.

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My tag is WOLxVERxINE and I am new to the forum. I was banned temporarily but no time line was given. This is going on now for three days. Where do I look to find out how long the cr ban is for? I am not questioning the ban, just want to find out how long it is for and have no idea where to look for it, since when the notice comes up it just says “this account temporarily banned” without any other info.

If it has been over 48 hours since your ban, it is likely a 1-2 week ban.

Thank you for your reply, however, is there any place in particular where I can check on this ban? I was not aware of the AFK thing, so I guess I violated that, but it would be nice if 343 would let us know where we can check on the length of bans.

Anyway, thanks again for your info.

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> My tag is WOLxVERxINE and I am new to the forum. I was banned temporarily but no time line was given. This is going on now for three days. Where do I look to find out how long the cr ban is for? I am not questioning the ban, just want to find out how long it is for and have no idea where to look for it, since when the notice comes up it just says “this account temporarily banned” without any other info.
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> Thank you for your reply, however, is there any place in particular where I can check on this ban? I was not aware of the AFK thing, so I guess I violated that, but it would be nice if 343 would let us know where we can check on the length of bans.
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> Anyway, thanks again for your info.

Sadly not no, I only know what I know from experience and other people telling me.

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okay i have something to ask the 343 and bungie you cant unband us and also dont monater the bands you dont even check if bands are fair also you say the banns are given over a three game period but i get banned from one game that meens your lying to us on multiple things also you say in game and out that if you quit a lot of games you get a join banned well thats a lie cause i tested it you get credit banns also you should only be giving console banns not account banns im calling you out im fed up of how you treat us youve been lying and cheating us everybody should be able to get unbanned but you cant unbann us u say u can then do it

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> okay i have something to ask the 343 and bungie you cant unband us and also dont monater the bands you dont even check if bands are fair also you say the banns are given over a three game period but i get banned from one game that meens your lying to us on multiple things also you say in game and out that if you quit a lot of games you get a join banned well thats a lie cause i tested it you get credit banns also you should only be giving console banns not account banns im calling you out im fed up of how you treat us youve been lying and cheating us everybody should be able to get unbanned but you cant unbann us u say u can then do it

Can you try typing that again with proper grammar, I couldn’t understand it at all.

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okay i have something to ask the 343 and bungie you cant unband us and also dont monitor the bands you dont even check if bands are fair also you say the banns are given over a three game period but i get banned from one game that meens your lying to us on multiple things also you say in game and out that if you quit a lot of games you get a join banned well that’s a lie cause i tested it you get credit banns also you should only be giving console banns not account banns im calling you out im fed up of how you treat us youve been lying and cheating us everybody should be able to get unbanned but you cant unban us u say u can then do it

thank you moa this is my best grammer sorry its not that good but im trying thanks for always helping us moa

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> okay i have something to ask the 343 and bungie you cant unband us and also dont monitor the bands you dont even check if bands are fair also you say the banns are given over a three game period but i get banned from one game that meens your lying to us on multiple things also you say in game and out that if you quit a lot of games you get a join banned well that’s a lie cause i tested it you get credit banns also you should only be giving console banns not account banns im calling you out im fed up of how you treat us youve been lying and cheating us everybody should be able to get unbanned but you cant unban us u say u can then do it
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> thank you moa this is my best grammer sorry its not that good but im trying thanks for always helping us moa

I understand it a little better now, right, you are correct bans are not monitored and probably never will be, it simply takes WAY to much time to monitor all bans and then to have an appeal process, it would be to much work for one man or a team to do, considering investigations accounts would have to go under similar to how Xbox LIVE accounts do when stolen.

To quote from the OP:

> Will posting in this thread guarantee my ban will be lifted and that someone will respond personally to every post?
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As for the monitoring over three games, I actually misread this a while back in the original post and only noticed it recently:

> The banhammer is almost always enacted automatically and has been routinely updated over the course of three games for maximum accuracy.

It doesn’t say it takes three games (like TS on Asylum, FFA Slayer on Powerhouse, CTF on Hemorrhage), it means it has been updated since Halo 2 to improve the accuracy of ban hammer, so technically, it can only take ONE game to be banned, not two, three or more, just one.

Onto quitting and getting banned, if you are simply quitting, you only quit bans which are TEN minutes long, you will NEVER get credit banned for quitting games on Halo: Reach.

As for the account & console bans, account bans are given to players to stop them from boosting/cheating on said account, the console ban is then handed out to stop said player from going onto a second account to play on another account to still earn credits, making the original ban pointless.

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thank you moa but the main problm is that its constant i have a good track record no swearing i help new gamers i dont quit accept for the last few i was testing then ban system as i said but i only get cr bans even wen i quit games it said if you quit anymore games youill be banned for 10 min then rigt after i get the message this account has been banned from credits then i get this xbox has been banned from credits six times in a row it keeps giving me the message after every game and its becoming riduicles i feel im being single out onest to god the only bad thing ive done was team kill to guys for swearing and calling me names for no reason then right after it says im banned

thanks for the help moa i geuss i just have to deal with being singled out less fun but thats how it works but thanks alot moa but i think that my accounts being single out because its constant and sometimes its just random im campaign and all of a sudden i get banned it seems like there something wrong with the system

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> thank you moa but the main problm is that its constant i have a good track record no swearing i help new gamers i dont quit accept for the last few i was testing then ban system as i said but i only get cr bans even wen i quit games it said if you quit anymore games youill be banned for 10 min then rigt after i get the message this account has been banned from credits then i get this xbox has been banned from credits six times in a row it keeps giving me the message after every game and its becoming riduicles i feel im being single out onest to god the only bad thing ive done was team kill to guys for swearing and calling me names for no reason then right after it says im banned
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> thanks for the help moa i geuss i just have to deal with being singled out less fun but thats how it works but thanks alot moa but i think that my accounts being single out because its constant and sometimes its just random im campaign and all of a sudden i get banned it seems like there something wrong with the system

You are not appearing as DNF in this game: Slayer on Boardwalk, you seemed to have not got any kills that game and your guest was negative one.

To the system, that is AFKing activity and therefore, you were banned.

You are NOT being singled out, you simply were banned for AFKing activity in this instance.

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ya there were prwwty good and i wasent doing to good lol ahahahahahhhaha could you please tell me how long

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ow and one more question if you dont mind answering it please if my guest sucks very badlly and never gets kills will they banned me

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> ya there were prwwty good and i wasent doing to good lol ahahahahahhhaha could you please tell me how long

First time bans tend to last 24-48 hours, any longer is usually 1-2 weeks.

It all depends on your past ban history which nobody in public can see.

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well this would be my 5 bann lol they have been hitting me hard lol

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> ow and one more question if you dont mind answering it please if my guest sucks very badlly and never gets kills will they banned me

If a guest has AFKing activity, it can result in the original account being banned.

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why did i get banned playing firefight doubles with my 2 year old son someone tell me why my gamer tag is GATOR R DONE. In result i could tell my son he dont know how to play and he cant play games with dad.

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> > This post has been edited by a moderator. Please refrain from making non-constructive posts.
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> > Oh, and by-the-way… Why don’t you guys POST these friggin rules somewhere we we can READ them so we know what we’ll get messed with by you for!!! If they’re NOT posted, they SHOULDN’T be in power over the Halo community!!! So far, no one has been able to give me a straight answer as to why I was Credit-Banned!!! With NO rules posted, how is anyone supposed to know this crap!!! I would have grabbed his controller from my neighbor and gotten a few kills if I’d known you’d be judging my performance!!! So WRONG, SO WRONG!!! Fix this!!!
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> The ban hammer has remained unmodifed since then, so 343i follow the same rules, I’ve PM’d a few people asking for updated rules like that in the original post, however, no reply to any, I know, you are upset for being banned falsely, but the only evidence remaining to prove you were not AFK, is the game history, which shows zero kills in many games, in a court, it would be in 343i’s favour due to the solid evidence of the game history.

Ty for the rules link, I have now copy-pasted the official rules and printed them. :slight_smile:

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Gator, I hate to tell you, the banhammer auto-banning system prolly popped you, assuming you were guest-afk’ing due to lack of kills. It’s an automated system, so it does that. You should get unbanned in a day or so for a first offense.

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> why did i get banned playing firefight doubles with my 2 year old son someone tell me why my gamer tag is GATOR R DONE. In result i could tell my son he dont know how to play and he cant play games with dad.

AFKing activity is the cause to your ban.

Arcadefight on Glacier

Seems the other player who you say if your son, lacked any kills, spiking the ban hammer.

First time bans tens to last 24-48 hours.

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so if i played with a random player and they do nothing we both get banned

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> so if i played with a random player and they do nothing we both get banned

Was that not your sons account or is he playing as a guest, as in GATOR R DONE(1)?