WillDaSnail Wrote:No offense, but I do question your "story" about how you got banned in the first place. In other words, you're definitely hiding something that we don't know about (and feigning innocence at the same time). Driving your friend to the hospital (and having to bail out of the game as a result) is an understandable emergency, an extremely rare occurence, and you are unlikely to get banned on that leave alone. However, you're likely to get banned for things that you have done in-game that violated the Summoner's Code.
but yeah, to be dead serious, it was mostly from disconnects. They were doing some infrastructure work in my area at the time and my connection would randomly just die out for about half an hour or so at a atime. Back when I played seriously, it was a bit annoying, to say the least. Felt bad for my teammates, because of the dropping. It's not like I would have been able to warn them ahead of time, due to the fact that comcast didn't even notify us when they were doing the service.
And then the last time I disconnected, well, I didn't disconnect.
A little backstory on this whole situation.
My friend's folks were out for the weekend, he was in the house by himself.
I was talking to him one day over skype while I was playing, singed, I believe. Fun as hell champ to play.
Anyway, he starts complaining about chest pains and a headache, I ask him if he's alright, when all i hear is a thud over the mic, and some heavy breathing.
I just kind of ran out the door, got in my car, and bolted to my friends house to see if he's alright, and get him to the hospital if needed.
I couldn't call an ambulance for him, because the defense of "My friend just passed out over a skype call after complaining about chest pains" isn't a good report.
The reasoning behind that being that since I wasn't there to physically witness it, it wouldn't be a valuable eyewitness report of the event.
I mean anyone could just call up 911 from a payphone and say "Yeah, my phone died, but my house is on fire. It's at the corner of sixth and main, send a few fire trucks please"
@KajitiSouls: It might have been leaverbuster that gave me the hammer then, read what's in the spoiler to understand what happened with me.
Regardless, I still am not very comfortable with the whole tribunal system. Made the metagame feel too much like an episode of survivor.
Also, a lot of websites have a pretty good moderation team, for example, and I feel like this will be a bit of a drama starter, but here I go.
Spoiler
GaiaOnline.
Their moderation team is on a volunteer basis, except for, I believe, the Omni-Mods.
Omni's being the ones who handle account inquiries, bans, and what not.
but for their regular moderation team, they have to sign several NDAs, go through months of training, and prove that they're dedicated to the commuity as a whole before they even get the beginnings of access to power of their own.
I'm actually good friends with a few of them, and several members of the staff of the site itself.
The community gets a lot of flak, but the people who run it are genuinely nice folks.
