Here is my original thread post, with the PMing stuff edited out:
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Over the past few months I have gotten to know x Mr Snuggle x very well while he has been trophy fishing. Last month (October) he placed first at Gambino breaking the old record and raising the bar for everyone else with a score of 666,000. This month (November) he decided to compete for the Overall fisher trophy. He had been doing excellent with almost double the score of the second place overall fisher. On the 15th, his account was banned for "botting". Everyone who has ever fished with him knows he does not bot. He does spend an insane number of hours fishing a day, 16+ hours a day! The reason he is able to do this is because he is recovering from cancer surgery, and fishes to keep his mind off of suddenly finding himself disabled. I personally find it distastful that he is being punished for being a good fisher.
I also wanted to rewrite another point I had in the thread. I didn't copy the post, but it said something like this:
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Here is what I have been thinking about lately:
If you trophy fish too much, you get accused of botting. You get banned!
If someone buys something from your store in the market with botted gold. You get banned!
If you buy something in the market that was purchased with botted gold. You get banned!
If you go to the exchange and sell something, and someone buys it with botted gold. You get banned!
If you go to the exchange and buy something, and it was previously bought with botted gold. You get banned!
If a noob wrongfully reports you for abuse. You get banned!
So, to try not to get banned you don't buy or sell anything with any other user. You don't do any trophy fishing. What is left that is fun? You wind up wearing noob clothes in fear of buying ANYTHING because it might have been bought with botted gold. You could buy stuff from the stores, but what if you get banned because a jealous noob wrongfully reports you? You lose everything! The entire fun of the site is destroyed because of this. This is unfair and something has to be done. The people getting banned are the loyal Gaians who have been here the longest. They are getting banned because Gaia it seems would rather bend over backwards to please every new user that comes along and ignore those that helped keep this site going year after year. Something has to be done.
If you trophy fish too much, you get accused of botting. You get banned!
If someone buys something from your store in the market with botted gold. You get banned!
If you buy something in the market that was purchased with botted gold. You get banned!
If you go to the exchange and sell something, and someone buys it with botted gold. You get banned!
If you go to the exchange and buy something, and it was previously bought with botted gold. You get banned!
If a noob wrongfully reports you for abuse. You get banned!
So, to try not to get banned you don't buy or sell anything with any other user. You don't do any trophy fishing. What is left that is fun? You wind up wearing noob clothes in fear of buying ANYTHING because it might have been bought with botted gold. You could buy stuff from the stores, but what if you get banned because a jealous noob wrongfully reports you? You lose everything! The entire fun of the site is destroyed because of this. This is unfair and something has to be done. The people getting banned are the loyal Gaians who have been here the longest. They are getting banned because Gaia it seems would rather bend over backwards to please every new user that comes along and ignore those that helped keep this site going year after year. Something has to be done.
Sorry for carrying on, but thanks for listening to me complain. heart
Thanks to all of you for your support,
Ausheteru II
