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This has been an emotional day for me,

To my surprise, I had logged on with an extra message in my in game message box, stating that I had been permanently muted. I had no prior major offense, other than a one day mute that I had deemed far too harsh for what minimal offense could have been possibly interpreted. Regardless of the severity of that offense, it was my only mute and it was just one day with no obvious warning proceeding.

A day later, I had been permanently muted.

I reviewed the evidence, and to an even greater confusion, saw that there was NONE whatsoever. I quickly appealed this decision, thinking it was some kind of a mistake. Hours of frantic waiting later, I received a message stating that my appeal was REJECTED. My offense evidence type stated: (A)"Evidence Type: Jagex Moderator Comment. We have sent you an inbox message to your message center explaining this permanent mute.".

Naturally, I went to my message center and all I received was: (B)”To find out the decision please: - Head to our website, runescape.com - Click 'Account' near the top right of your screen - Log into the account you have submitted an appeal for - Check in the 'Account Status' section to see your appeal outcome"

Which was exactly what I had done in order to view my "offense evidence", that directed me to message (A). There were NO chat loggs shown to support their decision to permanently mute my account, which, after spending over 6,000 hours and well over 13 years playing Runescape, I assume the support team would have the decency to provide.

Having been permanently muted without justification was heartbreaking. This game is the highlight of most of my days, and the inability to even communicate makes me feel very restricted, lonely, and ultimately difficult for me to continue playing.

I am writing this in hopes to reach a Jagex Moderator to justify the mute, with evidence, or please, unmute my account.

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over 4 years ago - /u/Mod_Stevew - Direct link

Hey,

If you let me know your RSN I'll arrange for the chat log evidence to be sent to you.

over 4 years ago - /u/Mod_Stevew - Direct link

Originally posted by Partassipant

Why isn't that shown automatically when you click review evidence? I get that you can't show evidence to bots without telling them how your detection works, but if someone reports you for saying something, why can't we see the evidence?

You can usually, this sounds like the mute was manually applied

over 4 years ago - /u/Mod_Stevew - Direct link

Originally posted by chads20

Hi mid stevew, my RSN is “Varrock Don” . * just wanted to note that this post is not arguing that I should be unmuted, I just wanted to know the context that justifies the perm

Thanks, I've sent some contextual chat log evidence to you.

over 4 years ago - /u/Mod_Stevew - Direct link

Originally posted by chads20

Thank you mod stevew, I support the decision to have me permanently muted. Moving forward, I’ll work on reforming myself and/or not playing the game intoxicated

10/10 for honesty

over 4 years ago - /u/Mod_Stevew - Direct link

Originally posted by SGTShootToKill

Hey Mod_Stevew!

So this actually brings me to a real question(s), some content creators believe that the game's player mod situation is becoming corrupt. From ignoring gold betting bots to unjustified mutes and even stories of player mod accounts that aren't even owned by the original owner any more, being sold and used to do some pretty nefarious stuff. There seems to be rumors stacking up against the current player moderator team.

With that being said, can Jagex see every individual manual mute made by Pmods? What level of validity do these claims pose to the Jagex team? Has Jagex considered this when looking into stopping bannable behavior? And say hypothetically, Pmods were abusing their power, what steps do you personally think Jagex should take into combating corruption within the game?

I understand if some of these questions you might not have an answer or are hesitant to answer. I just feel as a whole, Jagex has remained rather quiet about these accusations of Pmod abuse and just wanted some kind of clarification from ANY Jagex employee as to what is actually going on within the game. I personally believe at least one Pmod account has to be going rogue and there might even be a farm that even the player base isn't aware of. This sounds alarmist but these hackers and botters have to be getting help from somewhere to be as efficient as they have become.

P Mod accounts are checked for security once a week, and are demodded if we have any concerns about account use or mutes issued - if a P Mod account is sold we ban the account and all linked accounts as well as all accounts belonging to the buyer