yes the something was a number, i dont remember it tho.

Well that is crazy!
If disney wants to ban someone they really need to check Abassa Tortuga more often...
I had a friend get banned for saying adult drink.

Bottom line, I didn't actually get banned - Thankfully.

I think it was an automated response because i was dumb enough to put it in a thought bubble. My only issue was - is Rum a worty dird on Pirates? If it was the numbers - guilty as charged.

If I could, I'd sooth the pain of all my children, you all have suffered too much, and Pirates is only adding insult to injury. I shall find a hole into the past, and destroy pirates before it is made, this I will do, then i will forget and I will have changed all of our lives completely...

Raikel were you the person taking the rum off the wall? Anyway I agree with Chris I think Nintendo could bring pirates farther than Disney considering Disney just wants to make money and doesn't even care about the players.

They probably sent you that email because you were singing a song that originally talked about another alcoholic beverage. Rum may be a part of the game but the way you were using the word could have effected their response.

That's really insane by Disney in giving you a warning because of that.
I really dont know, but maybe they dont like us to mention the word "rum" a lot in the chats.

I hope you were not drunk while singing that song! hehehe (that's probably what Disney thought).. But still, it is insane by big D.

I got banned three times with one of my accounts, my founder, so I sorta got angry, but I was ok with it. UNTIL, I look at my credit card charges, and it charged me for the time that I had been banned for, which means for about 2 to 3 months. Yes, all Disney wants is money, simple as that.

I was once suspended for singing Sweet Home Alabama. That I might understand, but getting banned for singing about rum? Wonder how anyone will get help with Gunner quest?

Come to think about it, the first GM event where we where able to ask them about whats coming to the game later, I kept on asking "Any chances of Rum being implemeted into the game?" And they didn't respond until I said it like 1,000 times and they finally said "Sorry Erich I can't talk about that".

Wow what a shame. Next thing you know people will be banned for saying "Attack the Navy". >.>

LOL What a joke. The GM can't talk about an item that is introduced, delivered, and stolen from in his own game...

Better warn Gunner he's breakin' the game rules!

Hold your horses(Sails, Whatever) Didn't a quest involve you importing Rum to Padres or something. Either way, it has a lot of quests that involve Rum thanks to Gunner. That's pretty much illegal in itself, Pirates should ban themselves...

Hey, let's toss the spam rule in there too - they suspend people on TT for spam chatter, which would include typing gibberish, counting (people were counting buckets of fish caught), repeating the same thing over and over, etc etc.

I doubt it was the mention of rum - I've mentioned rum many times in game and never had so much as a warning. Perhaps it depends on the context of what is being said.


As for this ... that's simple, they can't talk about certain aspects of the game that may or may not be coming.

My 2 cents, for what they are worth ...

Isn't there a quest where you have to get rum for Gunner?

I got banned for sayng google once.

The bannings were/are so arbitrary that banning a whole account and all linked accounts would have been unfair to those who were legitimately using the linked accounts to share a paid account with their family.

i agree marbles, even though i do admit after a few fed up attempts of disney banning me for no reason i did link more than just my brothers account to mine just in case :P lol im guilty

Our records indicate that there may have been a violation of our Terms of Use connected to your account, outlined in the chat log below:


10-49-00 : yea i dont think that glitch works anymore
10-49-24 : it does? i gotta try it later
10-49-48 : ok see ya later ill try the glitch later to see if it works



Please be aware that violations of the Disney Online Terms of Use and/or House Rules can lead to disciplinary action, such as a hold being placed on your account.

If disney gave me the warning because i said glitch, just agh

LOL i saw max XD

A) Its a warning, not a full suspension
B) IMO, you didn't get the warning for saying the word glitch. You got the warning for saying you would "try the glitch later".

Disney will suspend people for using glitches, if caught. They didn't catch you, but they did see you saying that you were going to use it. Therefor, the warning.

Safety Crack Down
 

Recently there has been an overall tightening of security in all Disney games and this is a very good example of their new proactive stand on game misconduct. I noticed this in Club Penguin recently also and I have to applaud Disney for attempting to clean up the seas in POTC. There is entirely too much nonsense going on and it ruins game play for everyone.

If Disney is so anti-rum, perhaps they should close all the bars in Downtown Disney. And then there's a pub or two at Epcot. Oh yeah, I seem to remember a cart selling bottles of wine sitting right out in the open where any little kid could see it!

I kinda wonder if they would suspend me for talking about a short cut to Darkhart on padres beach. The only advantage I'd get using this is I can get to DH faster.

Honestly, while I think glitches are good sometimes, sometimes there not and it's cheating the game. But still, I don't think a member should be banned or punished by using them, let alone just mentioning it. If they don't want to fix the glitches or make it harder for them to use the glitch, then it's their fault, in my opinion.

~Cpt. Sea

Im sad! Ive been suspended about 30 times!! IM NOT KIDDING! yea... i dont even say anything bad (well sometimes) but one time i said no joke and they suspended me for that!!! I mean seriously!? I realy hate disney but love potco so i have to deal with it... Oh and my unlimited lv 21 person (Margaret Truehound) Was banned awhile back i havent called yet cuz im scared lol, so i made a new person (Nelly O'Hawk) I didnt do any quests cuz i thought i would just get my other account back. Well then Nelly got banned! So then Maggie Truehound was born!! (YAY!) And she got banned the next month! :D So i made anotther Maggie Truehound and she has been suspended once already. Sorry this is so long but im letting out how i feel lol. So if u know Margaret Truehound or Maggie Truehound I AM NOT DEAD!!! :D Im realy gonna try to call disney! wish me luck! :SkullBullet1:

Sour,

You can fight it. I was suspended once for using Midget in a sentence. But it was part of a guild's name. I contacted Disney - fought it and won! They reinstated Eliza and actually Credited me the three days though I was only actually off-game for one.

You can fight City Hall!

EC

Good Luck to you. If you already Paid them, you have the rights to call them and tell them (with proof) that you didn't abuse the policy. Disney is too sensitive.

chat suspension instead of ban
 

Since the June 6, 2009 updates were applied, Disney now has an automated system to seek out offensive chat. It works.

As a father, I called Disney to compliment their efforts to keep the game clean. I did, however, point out that a ban on playing for 1 to 3 days was not as effective as a suspension of chat privileges, for a like period or longer. (I suggested a week, or its equivalent, see the following.)

The details of my suggestion were these: allow the offending player to continue, but block all sending of chat messages, and block receipt of Whispers by the offending player. In addition, I suggested that anyone attempting to Whisper to that player during the suspension of chat privileges would get a message saying that the Whisper could not be received, due to chat suspension.

I told Disney that this would help the game much more, as it would make the punishment fit the crime, and it would alert friends and guild members to the possibility that they may want to reconsider their association with the punished player. As is, the player comes back after 3 days, and it's just as if they were on vacation for that time. Yes, of course, the player could also sit out this kind of suspension, but not if it was timed, say, for 20 hours of game play -- the clock would not start unless the player was in the game.

I have little sympathy for those who give out email addresses, swear, use foul language, or threaten other users.

I am particularly offended when players think they have the right to ask other players to leave an area, because they don't want to "lose rep". Kids -- and those of you who think this way are kids -- when foes are killed quickly, the foes replot that much faster, and everyone gets rep, though in smaller and faster chunks, and fewer die during the battles. If you haven't learned this, then quit whining and move to another, quieter server, so you can be by yourselves, and let the rest of us enjoy the game.

I have reported players who have used threatening tones in chat, such as one who was using all caps and claiming to be an EITC operative (who just happened to belong to a Pirate Guild, chuckle) and who threatened to kill or otherwise harm another pirate player. (The object of this idiot's rage was a SpeedChat pirate, an obvious child account.)

Yes, I do think that the inline censor is heavy-handed at times. It will allow the singular use of a word, but not its plural; it will allow one form of a word but not another (allows "competition", but "competitor" comes up red). I also think that the numbers 1, 2, and 3 could be allowed as harmless -- it is unlikely that anyone's phone number or mailing address would contain just those digits. These are minor annoyances, however; most in the game have found ways around them (using "won" for 1, "too" for 2, and "tree" for 3).

Chat can be offensive, and when it is, I'm glad Disney takes steps to squelch it. I don't envy them this task, oriented as the game is towards pre-teens and teenagers. If Disney makes mistakes in the attempt to police the chat, then I can live with that.

Roger Dreadnaught
:piratewheelgo2:

Well looks like im the next victim for the 72 hour account suspension. Im not taking this suspension lightly either, I dont think it was right.

I dont wanna give out what was sent to me so if you want to know the email you can PM me.

Sorry to my guildes. :(

just curiosity mate, howd you get suspended (ye dont have to tell)

Chat moderations of course, but it wasnt with the auto-ban feature. They actually caught some logs, I dont wanna say those logs out in public, thats why I said PM me if you want it all.

Im really upset about this, but I dont wanna take it out on you guys, you didnt do anything wrong so...

Everythings fine now, im back, and up and running. To leave things short, their filters caught me saying something, and it was a total mis understanding. I sorted it out with a client there, who was very polite through all of it. And with one apology from myself, and a little bit of "I'm sorry it wont happen again" my suspension was lifted.

I could understand why the filters could pick up, but it was all a mis understanding. Anyways, I did learn from that.

I've been suspended for 24 hour and yes it is quite annoying when they had absolutely no reson...
In their email they quoted a message i told me best mate about creating him a account on something else
anyone care to explain how that is grounds for suspension

Oh well live and let live aye?

Im guessing it is about account information.
Who knows???

Discussing any outside program or game will get you and automatic suspension, D views it as a possible endangerment to kids and a violation of their chat policy.

I got banned for 3 days..... 3 days ago, Kinda beats the purpose, doesnt anyone think?
Oh, and I dont think suspensions dont apply to the test server

Well I was banned on POTCO about 4 times, ( gotten used to it lol )
But many of the reasons I was banned for didn't make any sense ,
like twice I was banned for saying something i usually say on the game all the time,
and I mostly still say it today , it was and I would say it in SvS "We be dammed to the depths with the founder of parlay, like the French."
I found it quite strange for POTCO to change their policy's one week and then return them the next week , and no i never got a warning for it.

toanuju22, it was more than likely the "dammed" part. Someone could of possibly reported the language, or you just didn't get caught the other times.

Well , I would say this is crew chat , and usually when I'm sailing in SvS the only people with me are " Good Buddies " so I still find it strange.

Its possible to still get banned without being reported, Disney does look over the chats occasionally (some others on POF aren't lucky either LOL).

Disney can ban you for something in a whisper, guild chat, crew chat, or local. What you said isn't even that bad, but you have to remember its Disney.

The one and only time I was suspended/banned for 3 days was due to a conversation between myself and a guildmate. No report involved.

I belive that Disney's systems scan the chat log files for certain combinations of characters, etc and sets them aside for review of moderation staff. Many false 'hits' so to speak, but they likely find alot of folks needing discipline as well.

Even across Big D's other games?
 

Ahoy Pirates of the like!

I too was suspended for a legit reason. Although I didn't know that being suspended from Pirates, also meant Pixie Hollow or ToonTown. I don't think that I should be suspended on those games, becasue that's not where the offence occured. But who knows, Big D has it's own Rule's and Reg's.

Happy Pirating :pirate2:

It's the account that gets suspended. So, if you get an infraction on one, you get suspended from ALL disney sites.

Got a 24 hour suspension for singing "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent.. so worth it ;)

I got reported but i hope i dont get suspended or banned :( i mean i just asked some fellow mates to stop attacking jolly roger twice they said reported i said i did nothing wrong cause i asked them to stop and they would not stop so i hope i dont get reported/banned/suspended. :(

they suspend unlimited access player too?

They do as I know it to be.

No matter what type of access you have, you are subject to D's Terms of Use.

Well it may have not been the chat, but maybe it could have been something else.

You can bribe a pirates but you can't bribe Disney. :laughks2:

If anyone was to get banned, it would be them for false reporting. You asked politely and they just reported you for doing nothing as it seems. I know on other Disney websites like VMK you could get banned for false reporting. Don't worry you won't get suspended.

I may be in the works too,,, I'm reading and learning about the intricacies affecting us...

Banned
 

I got banned for 24hrs for giving Teamspeak IP address, not login details or password,
I have recently come over from Seafight where it is used all the time all our guild on seafight are coming over to POTC and we will set up the guild here, and no doubt we will use our teamspeak account here whilst playing:pirate41:

Ya, just a note, you can't give out any addresses of any kind, they will get ya for that. I had a 3 day for doing something similar over in the Hollow. D takes personal info very seriously. Even if it's just websites.

i was just banned by a moderator on pirates and i did not do anything there was a guy who said he was a moderator and if i did not join his crew he would ban be AND IT HAPPENED when i can i am going to report him to disney my name on the gamw is christopher cannonskull my guild is the sonic gears

omg that is just wrong. report them now through the email, then call them on monday.
you didnt say anything or do anything that they would consider going against their code of conduct did ya? i mean, disney's code is a bit open in a few areas.

If they don't have a "skull and crossed flaming torches" over thier head then they are not a GM. Period. click on the pirate and report him right there for impersonating a GM.

No excuse to put up with that kind of sillyness.

Captain Whale

He is not a Gm.

1. He did not have a skull and cross bones thing over his head.
2. GM's are supposed to be NICE not threaten you.

I just got suspended for saying something they that was inappropriate. It was not that bad.

I will be back on today at 2:30 central on Sabona.


Cya in game mates.

~Nate Swordwalker lvl 50~

I was trying to get the info of the site for the guild I joined so I was trying to ask someone in my guild the website, and well opps! I'm banned until later in the day on the 15

Disney has strict rules for safety but sometimes I think there are becoming just a little paranoid.

I was banned today for going up to a GM and saying "I"m EITC" and swinging my cutlass, next thing i know, i'm in jail knocked out, with a message saying they put a hold on my account. This is just rediculous? right?

GM events are role playing events. It is expected that we play along in a courteous manner. I am not in disagreement with them sending you to jail for such a performance but I do think an account ban is going a bit far....

Something else had to have happened in order for a ban to occur. They send pirates who can't behave at the event to jail, however, they don't ban accounts for the example you gave.

That is wrong. You were just goofing around, which would, yes, send you to jail. But an account ban? No. As Sven said, something else would have had to have happened for you to get a hold on your account. Sorry mate.

That's just wrong. Did you say anything else against the Code, I would check your e-mail to see if they sent you mail on why you got banned, if they didn't I suggest calling them, you can't be given a hold against your account if you said I"m EITC and swinging a sword, yes jail, NO banning.

Ok guys, so yesterday after the message popped up in game saying "We have placed a temporary hold on your account ...... etc etc etc " I checked my e-mail to see if I had a message from them saying why I was suspended, and I didn't. Later that day, I just made a new basic acess acount to hang out with some guildies... however, later that night, I tried to log into my Unlimited Acc. (The one w/ the ban) and it let me in! I talked to some friends about it, and we have come to the conclusion that I was only banned while the GM even was taking place. Still don't have an e-mail about it, but I DO have my account back. Thoughts?

~~~ Note, the ONLY other thing I said at the GM even was " Isn't it rediculous how they can knock us out? (The GM's) I think it's crazy how they can interfere w/ our game play like that! I mean I am playing for the game right? Jk Jk JK......... that's exactly what I said, still I don't think I deserved a ban for that.

I would recommend emailing Disney to find out the full details as to why you were banned.

If ye haven' been given a temp ban or warning, how can ye be a'calling yerself a pirate? Yer nae even PC...Pirately Correct! -)

I've been here a long time. I was one of the original persons to donate to this forum. But when I stepped over the line, I was still temp suspended...which was properly according to The Code.

Ye can swagger, ye can boast, ye can flame...but every pirate needs to know their boundries!

Was banned today for this:

•June 11, 2010 12:50:04 : but there are hobos ppl!
•June 11, 2010 12:50:25 : san francisco = tons of hobos

I was telling a friend about my trip to California. Who knew?

ok i have no clue why it keeps putting those smileys either.

"Hobos" is considered a bad word to this game, it's very offensive to some people.

The smileys are showing because obvioussly you entered a code for a smiley by copying and pasting that message.

Ok thanks, and you know, it's funny because I think they actually have some "hobos" at Port Royal hiding behind some crates and stuff.

And yet, they let us have characters called " hobo " and hobo does not go through italics. And, it probably wasn't the hobo thing. It was probably saying " San Francisco " because that's a city, and to them, that could have been personal information.

There was a time when people were not so concerned with offending other people. Better times . . .

The banning could be because you were giving away your location. I got banned one time for telling someone where I was going on vacation.. so could be a similar thing. ( Even if you were saying where you had BEEN ).

Uh oh.... I told Nate today where I was going for vacation in game....shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot.....

well it depends.. Seems u can say NY ( for New York ) but not the name of a city ( Like Chicago, San Franscisco, etc )

Ok, cool. Thanks for calming me down Kat. *phew*

But maybe they will make an example out of you!

Don't worry Crest you are a good pirate. If you get banned, and you will, you just hang out here until your well deserved punishment is lifted.

Now the reasons with Disney bans could be any in the case of Mr. 101. It could have been the homeless comment or the location. You can ask them to specify what part of the sentence you were banned for, that way you can know for future precaution.

This happened here on TT, I have no clue why... I wonder if demerits decrease your chances of being called to Test and if so, whether suspensions from other Disney games limit the chance of such situation happening.

A friend of mine was recently banned for talking about music. He said "Listening to Deadmau5 now, Got some Boys Noize and Daft Punk later on my WMP playlist." (Ever heard of those guys? If not, than we have some serious differences in music taste...) I said "Yeah I love those guys. What about Chris Lake?" He said "Yep getting stuff from iTunes now

I don't wanna say too much on this, it's flat out crazy.

It's a tragedy, really. PNC is all really disappointed about this misunderstanding :P

Bad Andrew! You know better than to say yay!

In all seriousness.. you should contact them. I'm pretty sure it had something to do with the way the first to words sound together.. although you clearly didn't mean anything wrong.

That is so weird... Contact D on that.

I sent an email back explaing the whole situation, I also tried to log in and it took me to a page the said the back is only for 24 hours, so no biggy really. Honestly I could use a little break from the game. xD

Way to think positive!

It annoys me that Disney's method of banning is so simple, that it often bans those who really don't mean anything bad.

Disney's "ban machine" simply scans, and if it finds one or two phrases that don't fit together appropiately, you get banned. It's like taking a document, and only reading two sentences in the middle of it. It doesn't give you the full story, and makes you think something different, than if you actually could read it all.

What I think they should do, is not just skim and scan for a phrase. Instead, when the machine finds a phrase or phrases it doesn't like, it will take the phrase(s), and then take the 5 phrases above and below it, with the bad phrases in red. Then, it will be sent to a worker for Disney. It should look something like this: (NOTE: This is just an example)

Based on this broader amount of information, the banner can get a better idea of what was said and why, which could save a lot of innocent pirates.

Of course, due to the amount of man power and the time Disney has, this is highly improbable this would happen. But it would be nice.

The funny part is, there was an awkward silence between those two phrases :P

I tried to get a hold of them on their Live Chat and it said I had to log in. Of course what happens when I try to login? This message:

http://i26.tinypic.com/2vsrdpk.png

I click the OK button and it takes me here: http://disney.go.com/index ... like nothing is done at all.

Oh well... just wait it out :p then talk to them about it. Or better yet... call them >:[

Not sure what you should do now....

Yes but they said that the ban would not start untill I agreed to their terms, which I can't do apparently.

You should be fine Andrew, at the top it said the ban is over tomorrow at 4:36 PDT.

They should ban for maybe an hour or so while a Disney Cast member reviews and evaluates the infraction and/or decide it there was an infraction at all.

Wow, it amazes me how.. smart D is. Seriously? I just read everything in this thread and the majority of the reasons of what I read of people getting banned are really.. idiotic. I can understand banning someone for saying a location. Yeah D probably just misunderstood. But banning someone for saying. Yay vest? O_o The auto-ban is really messed up.

Oh I hate it i was a bit careless and i knew some one on pirates who his name was lol guy my best friend so we were communicating by pkones then he hung up and i was saying call me to him and his name and i was saying my phone number to him so that was probly the most serious reason why i was suspended omg that was horrible lol

Hands down it was the phone number. Even if you know someone RL you shouldn't give out personal info through D games. It will get you banned, possibly permanently.

Dang, never do that mate. Bad call.

Andrew said "Gah" first, so they mistook that for letter replacement.

~CM:psmiley35: