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[Scotlxnd]

Hello All,

I am appealing my Perma-ban today because I was banned alongside a group that were duping, Even though I myself never duped. I should have immediately reported it to staff and for that I greatly apologize. I'd like to specifically apologize to the Loka staff for wasting their time tracking down the many items and cores that were duped and used. I was attempting to protect my friends at the time and thats why I never reported it to begin with, they were people that I thought I could trust and I didn’t want to betray them. however since they decided to report me pretending I duped along side them I see that theres no point hiding the truth any longer. In the future if I see any abusable features within Loka I will immediately report them directly to staff to avoid this situation from occurring again.
Thank you for reading,

-AJ

+1 should be made to a temp ban

 

[Tqmen]

Um, AJ claims he never duped, what else is there to say? He's innocent and should be unbanned or atleast have a shortened ban.... As to the perm ban thing, that's not fair, there are actions, and there are equal consequences, you shouldn't have to prove yourself worthy to play again. Although if it's something serious like this then sure, but only the actual dupers should be given that treatment, not AJ.

I never claimed he duped tho, i just pointed out that the appeal doesn't have a lot of effort and why they usually perm ban

 

[Magpieman]

Almost 2 years ago (17th December 2020) we made an announcement post making our stance on these kinds of incidents very clear.

We would like to use this post to reiterate to the community that if you know someone is breaking the rules and you do not come to us, or you assist them, you are also at risk of being banned. We have been lenient with this and generally only provided strong warnings for those failing to report bugs and rule breaks. However, we would like this post to act as a warning for everyone that we will be much stricter with punishments when it comes to this moving forward.

In our view knowing about a dupe (and not reporting) that has a wide reach and the products of it are being spread to all corners of the server (seriously harming the economy) is at least as bad as physically performing a dupe for a small amount of personal gain. The simple reason for this is the damage caused, and the time and effort it takes for us to resolve it. We appreciate this may seem unfair but we have to prioritize the wider servers' health. We have very few resources and pour huge amounts of our personal time into Loka, keeping it running for over 11 years and we have to protect that.

While we feel we have every right to make an example of your actions and keep your ban permanent, we aren't going to. You had no previous rule breaks prior to your ban and were a productive member of the community. We appreciate that you owned up to the mistakes you made in your appeal and would not repeat them should the same situation arise in the future.

Instead of making you appeal again in a few of months, we will lift the ban in 2 months, at the start of December.

(similar response to Constantine10 appeal)