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17 Feb

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Originally posted by nostalgicx3

Going to Hijack this comment to ask you to please look into the account named 'Shawtyblitz'. It's a bought pmod account that's logged into 334 castlewars on a daily basis. A player by the name of 'Hiren' uses it to mute multiple high levels players that are not part of his cwars group or for any insignificant banter that goes on in the lobby. Been going on for the past year, it's ridiculous...

I've had a look at every mute they've submitted back to the beginning of December 2019 and they all look correct, I picked 3 at random from 2018, 2017 and 2016 - I didn't agree with one of the 2017 ones but on balance there is no indication of incorrect muting, it's likely that you what you refer to as 'insignificant banter' is actually offensive behaviour.

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Writing up a blog for the players to see in the coming weeks :)

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Hey guys. We appreciate that the fix has been a while coming, but it is something we've been working on. It's not quite as simple as a game content change.

Mod Acorn recently replied to a thread by the same OP, but for more context (since there are more replies and votes here), here's the status of the fix:

It hasn't been forgotten about. Any update to...

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Originally posted by [deleted]

Why is ahk bannable if it's 1:1 just like hotkeys. Yet youre allowed to use F keys lol

Because it's an automation program

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Originally posted by Leebleh

Thanks Tyran, can I ask if OSbuddy and Runelite or whatever the other one is called is bannable by the way?

OSBuddy and Runelite are fine.

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Hi there! It hasn't been forgotten about. Any update to mobile needs to be tested by us, and then it also needs to be tested by the App Store. It's actively being worked on, and we hope to be able to update you soon.

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Originally posted by [deleted]

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I'm not sure your suggestion would take out the 40,000+ other accounts currently being banned on a daily basis that you're not seeing.

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Originally posted by rs_xmas

I'm guessing a short term ban?

Oh right, well 'yep' if the account is not banned then it can become a P Mod

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Originally posted by yellowbananadude

Hey :) can :) I :) be :) your:) next :) pmod :) ? :) I :) fit :) the :) criteria:)

Anyone who meets the criteria has a chance, need more smileys though

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Originally posted by vixiefern

can you be a pmod if you got banned 12 years ago?

If you've been banned you wouldn't have an account to be made a P Mod ... what am i missing ...

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Originally posted by taintedcake

But surely it's jmods who determine who goes on the list? Cause most pmods seem to be players who hung out in chats that jmods also hung out in regularly whether it be on their jmod account or their personal account

Nope it's not decided by J Mods, the raw list of names names comes from a data set of pre-determined requirements, none of which are related to clan chat activity

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Originally posted by xsevenmillionx

I hope there is actually q list of exemplary players n not players who sit in clan chats. You guys should create a random acc n test your next p mods

Clan chat membership / activity is not even in the initial P Mod checks ....

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This week we're back to a regular Q&A on Wednesday at 5pm (UTC) here - twitch.tv/OldSchoolRS

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Originally posted by 6000000cookies

Why would you demod his account? Surely it's not vulnerable forever because it got hijacked once... right?

Because we don't know exactly why it was hijacked, for all we know the owner could be sharing it - there is no reason for us to accept any risk of our players being muted unfairly and we'd rather offer the role to the next person on the (long) waiting list instead of retaining a p mod account with a known historical security breach.

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This P Mod account was hijacked for about 4 hours. We secured the account so the owner could recover it and removed any mutes issued in that time, most of which were actually OK but there were some malicious ones as well. The longest anyone was unfairly muted in this incident was 1 hour.

It's a really unfortunate incident, but hijacking of P Mod accounts does happen from time to time and we act swiftly as soon as we become aware of it, we also check P Mod account security once a week to ensure they remain secure.

We have demodded this account, but I would ask that if you see the player in game not to hate on them - although everyone has a responsibility to keep their account details secure, the context is it was a hijacker and not the account owner that caused the issues for other players.

Thanks