Accepted Unban Appeal (1 Viewer)

[hedren]

• SourceBans Ban URL: SourceBan
• Name of your Banned Steam Account: Hedren
• Steam ID 32: STEAM_0:1:92904981
• Date and Time of the Ban: 2020-12-29 20:00:17
• Reason about the Ban: [SourceSleuth] Duplicate account
• Admin that Banned you: CONSOLE
• Why should you receive a unban: I always play games while connected to a VPN. I only have one account, so the VPN’s IP being detected is the only reason that I can think of for me getting banned for “Duplicate Accounts”. I have a friend who plays on the same VPN server as me, but he doesn’t appear to have been banned, so maybe it’s a false positive (?). I can stop playing while being connected to a VPN in future if that alleviates the problem and prevents me from being banned in the future.​

 

[Madact]

@hedren

What's your friends steam account?
Also sharing VPN? Can you elaborate on that.

 

[hedren]

• My friends steam account: Lokko
• Steam ID 32: STEAM_0:0:68221447

What I mean by sharing a VPN is that he’s set up a VPN at this home using PiVPN, and we use it so I can connect to his local network as a more reliable way to share files. Etc. I usually disconnect from it before doing anything else like playing games (I use a standard VPN service for that) but I’m what doctors would describe as “dumb”, so I’ve forgotten to disconnect from it on multiple occasions. However, as I said in my previous post I do use a VPN all the time when playing, but I can stop doing that and use my unaltered IP on these servers if it stops me from being banned in the future.

 

[Madact]

Thank you for the response, your story lines up.

Yes I would advise to avoid using VPNs while playing on panda community servers to avoid the false positive bans.

I've only removed your account ban but not the IP ban.

Accepted