RE: Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - April 25th, 2022 - 4PM Eastern!
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It sounds like a good point and I would like to agree with the premise of the quote. But you are right, they ban people for other things, so it is kind of a hollow sentiment.
My friend started playing and was banned a few days later. The reason was something about 'suspicious use of DEC' which was nonsense... he had literally done nothing but buy spellbook, a couple thousand credits and play a few dozen games. He had to go through customer support to get back into the game.
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What the hell are you talking about. This should be impossible. How do you get banned on blockchain??? You'll have to show some evidence.
He wasn't banned from blockchain... he was banned from playing Splinterlands. There is a difference.
If someone gets banned, it is because they violated the Terms of Service. If it was DEC related, I'm going to guess he had bought one of his own cards from the market, with credits, in order to convert the credits to DEC. Our system can detect these type of transactions and we ban if caught.
This was like 6 or 7 months ago. He had just started playing, he didn't sell any of his cards (to buy them himself.) He still has all of them now even though he hasn't played for months. He did appeal and get restored also because he did nothing wrong. I'm sure it was a mistake.
However, the point still remains. The quote rings hollow if people are getting banned for anything. Bots could just as easily be listed as against terms of service, detected, and banned like anything else. So there obviously is a centralized authority determining who can and cannot play when it comes to certain criteria, but not bots.
Splinterlands ban players from using Splinterlands site and nothing more, you can move your assets/tokes using others hive dapps. In the same way, when they ban an account is because they violated the TOS in some way, mostly is due selling/renting cards between owned accounts to ëxchange"credits to DEC or doing paypal chargebacks, for example. However, everyone can appeal a ban and they will check it out