So tully just banned my alt account for 10,000 days showing me the reason as point abuse. The account was public and active for about 1 year, I never tried to hide or announce the fact that it was my alt, as I didnt think that was necessary.
The alt had I think around 4 -5 small builds, and a tournament build, and around 530 points. I really dont care much about it as it was my alt and nothing of high value was in it.
Now, have I upvoted my main account posts from the alt account? Yeah I have. Was that the sole purpose of that account? absolutely not. As I mentioned, I posted smaller, unfinished or low effort builds there. Plus I wanted to help people out with xml edits so that account was for that as well. Why did I upvote my own posts? Same reason people use custom thumbnails and elaborate descriptions. To get more attention towards something that I have worked hard on. As a very small creator I dont exactly have a following. And usually my posts get lost in the sea of posts as soon as its posted. But if it was upvoted atleast once it appears on the "hottest" section for a brief moment of time and people can actually see it. Same goes for forum posts like this one.
But as I said, the alt was public and active without any problem for a year.
And, well, last night I made a comment, might I add, my first public/private comment, on randomusername related drama. Now I had to make it through the alt account as she had blocked my main one. And then when I woke up this morning to a comment from tully on my last upload asking who was firepower to me. I said its my alt aaand then he banned it telling me not to upvote main accounts from alt accounts.
Now, this seems very much like a bad way of damage control, but I am aware that I am gonna be called out for breaking the rule anyway, and to that I say, yeah, I broke a rule in a way that didnt harm anyone or anything for an emtire year and now suddenly when I post something about a controvertial topic suddenly it becomes harmful eh? What th were the mods doing for an entire year then?
Look, I have nothing to do here anyway, as I cant get the ban lifted, and I wont try to, cause yeah I was in the wrong. But the timing seems wayyy too convenient.
@Adityo0502 It would be if that were actually the case here. ALl you really did was tip them off to you already breaking a previous rule.
Your alt has apparently been banned for 27 years
@asteroidbook345 I am not even contesting that though. I did something wrong that broke the rules and got rightfully banned for it. But my point was that it probably was targetted seeing as I was speaking against a clearly favoured user, and that doesnt seem fair, cause lets be honest here, upvoting some of your posts from other accounts doesnt deserve a 10,000 days ban and probably could've been dealt with just a warning.
@asteroidbook345 Oh, okay, that makes sense.
@asteroidbook345 I dont understand why they would have gotten triggered though.
@ForeverPie Yeah I think that might be the case aswell, but if this is the case its a bit "abusive"(I use this word lightly here for lack of a better word, as they were in the total right for doing this) dont you think, cause last time I checked shutting people up through straight up banning them is a bit abusive
As @ForeverPie said, they aren't all-knowing. There are things on the SR2 site that should've been removed that stayed up for sometimes months before I even know about them and subsequently dealt with them. The only way they can really know about it is if something is either reported using the report button, or a moderator sees a comment saying "I'm posting this on my alt account" on a hot topic and decides to check the IP of said alt account to see who it belongs to, and then check if they're cheating the point system. The mods do of course investigate stuff on their own as well without reports or hot topics, but generally that's harder to do and is often more trouble than it's worth.
I think you posting on the hottest topic got the moderators attention. You have to understand they cant see everything, and so your alt was bound to be banned either way at some point.