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itzDerrio Jul 19, 2023 @ 2:04am
whats the point of ban appeals when they dont work 100% of the time?
whats the real point of them ?
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Kargor Jul 19, 2023 @ 2:10am 
Somebody else is looking at it, and decided that kicking you in the behind was warranted?
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itzDerrio Jul 19, 2023 @ 2:13am 
Originally posted by Kargor:
Somebody else is looking at it, and decided that kicking you in the behind was warranted?

then get rid of it & ban sadism.
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Nx Machina Jul 19, 2023 @ 2:41am 
Thread title: whats the point of ban appeals when they dont work 100% of the time?

Because the ban was correctly applied.
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Xero_Daxter Jul 19, 2023 @ 2:48am 
Who honestly think ban appeals are 100 percent? It’s steam support’s discretion to unban you and if not a good enough reason to unban you they will just leave you banned.
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Crazy Tiger Jul 19, 2023 @ 2:56am 
Appeals can work. One of the major discussions points regarding moderating is that bans get given and then removed after appeals to Steam Support.

Those, however, are for bans in the general Steam forums by the paid mods. If you get banned by game hub moderators then you need to appeal to the game dev. Steam Support will also direct you towards said game devs. The success rate of appeals is indeed much lower there as game devs often side with their moderators or simply don't care.
Last edited by Crazy Tiger; Jul 19, 2023 @ 2:56am
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kitt Jul 19, 2023 @ 3:14am 
appeals don't mean they are guaranteed to work.

With Valve it means 99,9% you will get a bot reply that denies your appeal.


I just got banned for 4 week. I appealed, appeal ticket was closed with some nonsense that had nothing to do with anything.

I created a new ticket, bot reply that the ban was right blabla, replied again, then a human finally had the balls to overturn my ban and actually explain the reason for the ban

(I disagree in this case but I could see the reason for "naming and shaming" being correct in more unique ways. As I dont agree that a smiley emoji avatar is a uniqute thing on Steam and thus the user easily identified. As example my Avatar is a custom drawn image, thats unique and not some emoji)



Game devs/publisher/anti cheat folks are usually not interested in appeals and either ignore them or simply deny it.
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