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I recieved an email from Gaia, saying that I was banned for hacking and/or profiting to hacking, but I had never even done anything. I have spent a fair share of time on Gaia since I love it, and I have been there only for more than a year I cant believe I can not have my account back with my stuff..I worked very hard ,playing games and buying mcs from Gaia, only to be told,I can not have my account back,help??
What can I do?
This is makes me very upset for the fact that I love Gaia and now I can not be on Gaia anymore. I am also mad for losing my friends and everyone I had..

[Gaia Ticket #262466]

Hey,
Quick Gaia question. I mess up a lot when typing in my password, and I get the error screen at least once every 2-3 days. So I was wondering, how many messups do you get before you're banned? Also, how many fifteen minute bans do you get before you're perma-banned? I got 15min'd once, about a month ago, and I was just wondering how many strikes I have left. Thanks~

I really thought I'd have my banned accounts back by now, but I guess there really is no hope, Gaia seems to be absolutely certain that I was botting. I have been told to stop making appeals and that the decision is final. Really I'm at my last thread of hope here. What happened? How can Gaia be so sure of my guilt if I didn't do it? What evidence are they relying on and how solid is it?

Yes I traded to my main a lot for a while, but I have years of trading in and out of my main, and even gave a list of trades proving that the trading was not one way. I have many accounts, but there is no rule saying how many accounts we can have. I did collect daily chance on more than one account daily to raise money, but I asked and am also told that does not break any rules. I was signed in on more than one account the day of my banning, but am also told THAT does not break any rules. Nor does trading the collected daily chance gold to my main break any rules.

But apparently this all adds up to me looking like a bot, but how can not breaking any rules, despite being suspicious looking, get me banned for botting? I have a long clean record, good attitude and behavior on the site, and bought for years all my sealed envelopes. I had no need to bot with the wealth I had saved up over the years. I could have simply sold one of my 04 letters I had saved for the single purpose of selling in the far future.

The only thing I can think of now was that I was apparently "moving faster than is possible for a human being" which is simply not true. If I was moving too fast they need to recalculate the speed a person who has grown up on computers and spends several hours a day on one can move, because it's pretty darn fast let me tell you.

I don't know what else I can do, I did not bot and I am desperate for my accounts back. It's not right to be banned for something I didn't do. I was a good member and a good person, this is not right and it's not fair. Why is Gaia being so bullheaded about this? Can they not fathom that they might have made a mistake?

I finally returned to Gaia after I was grounded for an extended period of time (my grades dropped, parents's rules) and found that my account had been banned. I was very upset and still am, as that was one of the main things I wanted to return to when I got back on Gaia Online. Apparently my brother went into my computer and found my text file with my username and password in it so I didn't forget, and copied it to sticky note. He says he didn't doanything, but my parents don't believe him. The only thing I can think of is that he did something stupid and got me banned, OR he gave away my password to some hacker or something, somehow. Well, my dad filed an inquiry to the Gaia Team under my email (since it's the email registered to the account), here it is.

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Good morning to the Gaia Online team. My name is Paul Wohler, and I am writing
from my son's, Cole's, email. It seems that while Cole was grounded from his
computer usage these past year or two his older brother Jacob went onto his
computer and opened the text file containing Cole's (iDeadly's) username and
password and copied them down onto a sticky note we found in his room. While
Jacob won't admit to what he did exactly, the account is now banned, and Cole is
very distraught. Gaia Online was one of the things we had used as a priveledge
that would be taken away if his grades dropped, and they did. He was greatly
looking forward to returning to Gaia, but is now unable to. Cole asked me if I
could type a formal unban request, as he wasn't sure if he would be able to
convince you of his innocence. It would be greatly appreciated if you would
Unban iDeadly so he may return to your community. With his recently acquired
job, Cole was looking forward to buying the new donation items and seeing some
new battle game that Gaia was apparently planning to implement, prior to Cole's
grounding. I would love to be able to tell my son that he can go back to
playing on Gaia Online.

I will be awaiting your reply, thank you,
-Paul Wohler (Father of Cole Wohler, iDeadly)

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I hope someone could help me. Maybe Jakobo? I've seen him helping on other problems, and he seems rather friendly and also appears to have some insight and experience on these types of things.

Thanks in advance.

Hello there, Gaia staff!

I think it's great that you communicate with your users on such a neutral site as this one.

I can't help but see that most of the questions asked here seem to relate to banned accounts in one way or the other - perhaps because that's the most difficult issues to get answers to through the appropriate channels.

Anyway, that was just a side note. To my question:
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This regards the March 10 bans and the appeals that were sent in through the hacking report form. Directly after the appeals were opened up to the public, several accounts were immediately unbanned, a few were unbanned or responded to the following week, week-and-a-half. But since then it's been mostly quiet, at least in the March 10 guild and the March 10 chatterbox topic. I've heard that the investigating admin in question was home sick for a while, and then we had the longcat drama which I'm sure caused difficulties, and I'm certain there have been other crisis situations, unnoticed by the community, that demanded attention elsewhere.

I'm no longer blocked, my account was in fact unbanned in the initial rollback on March 19th, but I'm involved in supporting the blocked users, and I have quite a few friends that still haven't heard anything.

So my questions are:
What is the current status of the appeals? Approximately 25% done? 50%?
How long can we expect to wait for an answer? At best? At worst?
And, can any one of you consider making an appearance in the forums or the March 10 guild to let everybody know that you have not forgotten about this?

Thanks in advance,
Sandra / little lizard