How many bans until you are permanently banned.

[Your Batty]

Hello,

a friend of mine recently had a 3 day ban off their account. I am just wondering how many chances linden labs gives someone until they are permanently banned from the game. 

[Marigold Devin]

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Edited August 24, 2022 by Marigold Devin

[Lindal Kidd]

A three day suspension is a pretty strong warning. Usually, for a first offense, LL will simply send an admonitory email.

Your friend had better clean up their act, because the next time might very well be the last time.

[Lindal Kidd]

2 hours ago, CandyCole said:

To the two responders above. How do you know?

From watching what has happened to others.

It does depend on the offense. I have seen an account get permanently banned within minutes after being reported (in this case, it was for being a very underage user). I have seen long-standing accounts get permanently banned for a false accusation, and then reinstated following an appeal, though that is not likely.  LL does not like to admit to making a mistake. I have seen other accounts get away with tormenting people for years and never get so much as a warning.

Take our advice, or don't. We're just users like everyone else, and have no special inside information, and Linden Lab will do whatever they will do, no matter what we say.

If you play by the rules and are nice to people, you can stay here forever and most likely never be troubled by so much as a warning email. Break the rules badly enough, or often enough, and it's likely you will be going bye-bye.

[Wulfie Reanimator]

Just now, CandyCole said:

To the two responders above. How do you know?

It's common practice that bans will get more severe if you keep breaking rules, especially the same rule.

[CandyCole]

To the two responders above. How do you know?

[Love Zhaoying]

To those of us who attended "Banned Camp", we are not allowed to talk about what happened at "Banned Camp". 

(Meaning: It is really not allowed to discuss the details.  Theoretically: With foreknowledge, people will do things to push the rules as far as they can, or work around the rules, etc.)

[Marigold Devin]

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Edited August 24, 2022 by Marigold Devin
utter bollocks

[Brightstar7777]

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10 REASONS TO OPPOSE "3 STRIKES, YOU'RE OUT"

The American public is alarmed about crime, and with good reason. Our crime rate is unacceptably high, and many Americans feel like prisoners in their own homes, afraid to venture out for fear of becoming another statistic. 

For more than past 20 years, state and federal crime control policies have been based on the belief that harsh sentencing laws will deter people from committing crimes. But today, with more than one million people behind bars, and state budgets depleted by the huge costs of prison construction, we are no safer than before. New approaches to the problem of crime are needed, but instead, our political leaders keep serving up the same old strategies. 

Take the so-called "3 Strikes, You're Out" law, for example. Embraced by state legislators, Congress and the President himself, this law imposes a mandatory life sentence without parole on offenders convicted of certain crimes. Despite its catchy baseball metaphor, this law is a loser, for the following reasons. 

1. "3 Strikes" Is An Old Law Dressed Up In New Clothes 

The government may be justified in punishing a repeat offender more severely than a first offender, but "3 Strikes" laws are overkill. 

2. "3 Strikes" Laws Won't Deter Most Violent Crimes 

Its supporters claim that "3 Strikes" laws will have a deterrent effect on violent crime. But these laws will probably not stop many criminals from committing violent acts. For one thing, most violent crimes are not premeditated. 

3. "3 Strikes" Laws Could Lead To An Increase In Violence 

A criminal facing the prospect of a mandatory life sentence will be far more likely to resist arrest, to kill witnesses or to attempt a prison escape. Dave Paul, a corrections officer from Milwaukee, Oregon, wrote in a newspaper article: "Imagine a law enforcement officer trying to arrest a twice-convicted felon who has nothing to lose by using any means necessary to escape. Expect assaults on police and correctional officers to rise precipitously." (Portland Oregonian, 3/94). Ironically, these laws may cause more, not less, loss of life. 

4. "3 Strikes" Laws Will Clog The Courts 

"Three strikes" laws will make a bad situation even worse. Faced with a mandatory life sentence, repeat offenders will demand costly and time-consuming trials rather than submit to plea bargaining. Normal felonies resolved by a plea bargain cost $600 to defend, while a full blown criminal trial costs as much as $50,000. Since most of the defendants will be indigent and require public defenders, the expense of their defense will be borne by taxpayers. 

5. "3 Strikes" Laws Will Take All Sentencing Discretion Away From Judges 

Judicial discretion in sentencing, which is admired all over the world for treating people as individuals, is one of the hallmarks of our justice system. But the rigid formula imposed by "3 Strikes" renders the role of sentencing judges almost superfluous. 

Eliminating the possibility of parole ignores the fact that even the most incorrigible offenders can be transformed while in prison. Countless examples are on record of convicts who have reformed themselves through study, good works, religious conversion or other efforts during years spent behind bars. Such people ought deserve a second chance that "3 Strikes" laws make impossible.

6. The Cost of Imprisoning 3-Time Losers For Life Will Be Prohibitively High 

The passage of "3 Strikes" laws will lead to a significant increase in the nation's already swollen prison population, at enormous cost to taxpayers. The cost might be worth it if older prisoners represented a danger to society. But experts tell us that age is the most powerful crime reducer. 

7. "3 Strikes" Will Have a Disproportionate Impact On Minority Offenders 

... bias in the criminal justice system is rampant.

8. "3 Strikes" Laws Will Impose Life Sentences on Offenders Whose Crimes Don't Warrant Such Harsh Punishment 

In an open letter to the Washington State voters, more than 20 current and former prosecutors urged the public to vote against the "3 Strikes" proposal.

9. Let the Punishment Fit the Crime -- A Constitutional Principle 

This principle, known as "proportionality," is expressed in the Eighth Amendment to the Bill of Rights: 

"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." 

Many of the "3 Strikes" proposals depart sharply from the proportionality rule by failing to take into consideration the gravity of the offense. 

10. "3 Strikes" Laws Are Not A Serious Response To Crime

The "3 Strikes" proposals are based on the mistaken belief that focusing on an offender after the crime has been committed, which harsh sentencing schemes do, will lead to a reduction in the crime rate. Today, the U.S. has the dubious distinction of leading the industrialized world in per capita prison population, with more than one million men and women behind bars. 

(from https://www.aclu.org/other/10-reasons-oppose-3-strikes-youre-out)

Insta-bans, a lack of due process of appeals, arbitrary and capricious or bewildering hyper-mitotic interpretations of evidence and policy have turned social media into something akin to a straightjacket on arbitrary themes and issues, like the curators of our memes have succumbed to some hostile takeover, or a completely sound system was defeated and exploited simply by reinterpreting the universal meaning of keywords' meta and changing the informational laws of physics to shift gravity and tilt the field, changing the directional flow of life in potentially overwhelmingly destructive or partisan ways that sometimes manifest witheringly through social media policy enforcement, regrettably. There's very little that I can imagine might be done about it as a systemic general solution, you need omniscience, but our perspective here is limited. 

Edited August 24, 2022 by Brightstar7777

[Rowan Amore]

Technically, they could have already permanently banned your friend regardless of the infraction.  They are under no obligation to give temporary bans, either.  It's a courteousy.

 

5.1 You or we may terminate your Account(s) at any time.

You may terminate this Agreement by closing your Account(s) at any time for any reason. Linden Lab may suspend or terminate your Account at any time for any reason. In such event, Linden Lab shall have no further obligation or liability to you under this Agreement or otherwise, and you shall be entitled to no compensation or other payment, remedy, recourse or refund.

5.2 We may terminate your Accounts for violation of this Agreement.

Linden Lab may suspend or terminate your Account if you violate this Agreement, along with any or all other Accounts held by you or otherwise related to you, as determined by Linden Lab in its discretion, and your violation of this Agreement shall be deemed to apply to all such Accounts. Upon termination of your Accounts, this Agreement between us will be automatically terminated and you may not re-subscribe or return to the Service through other or future Accounts you or others may set up.

Edited August 25, 2022 by Rowan Amore