Faulty Autoban?

Issue/Problem/Bug: Many maplers were banned @ around 5:20-5:40PM PST on July 28, 2009.

Who did/can this happen to: This has happened to people in all worlds, most bans occured in Scania, Khaini and Windia.

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Describe the problem. Be as specific as possible!: Many maplers were banned @ around 5:20-5:40PM PST on July 28, 2009. Some common events that happened before the ban were 1) they were either AFK in a town or in the FM 2) they were in the FM 3) they had just recently purchased a mushroom store permit 4) we were dc'ed by a dc hacker.

THEORIES : 1) we were autobanned by the system because we were in a map where a dc hack took place, the AB system assumed we were the hackers 2) a MWLBer is abusing powers 3) a GM is abusing powers

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Some common events that happened before the ban were 1) they were either AFK in a town or in the FM 2) they were in the FM 3) they had just recently purchased a mushroom store permit 4) we were dc'ed by a dc hacker.

None of that happened in my case; all I did was log on for about 45 minutes to get a minidungeon badge and say hi to people. I came back about three hours later to find my ban message.

Don't most Maplers do at least one of those things every day? I realize there were a great number of these bans, but it would have been much worse if any of those were the cause.

I've been banned and my situation corresponds to those described above.