The "How do I...?" FAQ thread.

[noname2200]

nordlead said:

noname2200 said:

Gilgamesh said:

 

The third way, and the one that's affected the most users, is for their to be an "amnesty," in which all banned users are allowed to return. This happened over the summer, when ioi lifted all bans on all people for reasons known only to himself. It's unclear whether and when this will happen again, though, so don't count on this method.

 

Method 3. It really isn't unknown why everyone got unbanned. There was a bug in the system that caused ioi to unban half the users. When they fixed the banning system they decided just to unban the rest of the users. I doubt this will ever happen again

Method 4. I'm fairly sure someone has done this, but I have no proof. There must be some way of tricking the server into unbanning a user. So far i know of 2 accounts (and I'm fairly sure they are the same person) who have successfully gotten unbanned from a perma ban and I'm fairly sure no mods did it. Again, I have no proof, only that they are unbanned and I don't believe a mod did it.

 

As always, thanks for the corrections, especially about the two highlighted here. I didn't know that was the cause of the amnesty, but it just goes to show that dumb luck can occasionally work in your favor (and someone else's disfavor...). Thanks!