How to make a discipline appeal

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haunter

Banned deucer.
Pokémon Showdown is committed to providing a venue where Pokémon enthusiasts are able to enjoy their hobby free from harassment or abuse of any kind. For that reason, we want to open the lines of communication between our users and the site leaders so that users may alert us to potential problems that interfere with our goal of having the best server around.

If you feel that you have been banned or locked from the Pokémon Showdown main server unjustly, this is where you may file a complaint that will be reviewed by the staff of the server, the moderators of the forums, and the site administration.

Note: If you were banned for linking to a shock site or porn, do not create an appeal because it will be denied. You will become unbanned at the next server restart in a few days. Do not link to shock sites on the server. Thanks.

Before posting your complaint, carefully review the rules of the Pokémon Showdown server and seriously consider whether you broke one of them... intentionally or not.
  • Note: You are responsible at all times for the behavior of your account. We will not unban you because your brother got on your account and did something stupid. Similarly, bans and locks for school IPs will not be reversed because someone else got on and spammed. Do not let other people use your account. If you make a ban appeal stating this as the reason, your appeal will be denied and you will receive a warning for ignoring this announcement. We also cannot ban individual accounts; if one person on your IP gets banned, everyone on that IP is banned.

    We have this policy because:
    - It's impossible for us to tell whether or not you're lying.
    - Even if you're not lying, the fact is that PS got spammed or whatever and it happened because of your account.

If you still believe the ban was unjust after reviewing the rules carefully and considering your situation as dispassionately as you are able, you may post a thread here.

Your thread must include:

  • The username of the moderator who banned you
  • The username you were using yourself when you were banned
  • A complete log or screenshot of the text that is relevant to the question of your banning, if possible. Attempting to alter logs will result in permanent banishment from the Smogon server. If we doubt the authenticity of your log, we will pull up the log ourselves from our records.
  • An explanation of why you feel that you were banned improperly.

Your thread must contain all of these or it will be ignored. If your thread contains all of the listed elements, your case will be reviewed as soon as we are able, and our final judgment will be issued.

Under no circumstance you're allowed to make more than one thread for any given lock/ban. Creating a second appeal, when the first one has been locked/rejected, constitutes grounds for a ban from the forums.

Note: If you were banned for linking to a shock site or porn, do not create an appeal because it will be denied. You will become unbanned at the next server restart in a few days. Do not link to shock sites on the server. Thanks.

Ready? Click here to make an appeal.

Credit to Great Sage for the rules.
 
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scene

Banned deucer.
Do you know who banned or locked you? Would you like your appeal to be answered as quickly as possible? That's great - tag them with the @ symbol before their name in your post. This will direct them to your appeal and ensure your appeal is dealt with as soon as the relevant staff member is available. For instance, if you wished to tag user Scenee in a post, you would simply type @Scenee. Since that name doesn't actually exist, there's no tag - using my name, it appears as Scene and sends a notification to the person in question who was tagged.

Don't tag a staff member unrelated to your case, please - at any time of the day several staff will be online and ready to answer appeals, so there's no point and it will only irritate. if you don't know who banned or locked you or can't get the tag feature working, don't worry! Countless appeals have been answered rapidly without this feature, and will continue to be.
 

Dell

majestic pride.
is a Site Content Manager Alumnusis a Team Rater Alumnusis a Forum Moderator Alumnusis a Battle Simulator Moderator Alumnus
To better assist you guys in finding out which of the staff members you need to tag to appeal your case to, we've updated the Pokemon Showdown Staff List with links on the usernames. This list will show the server names of all of the staff members, and the links will directly send you to their profile page on Smogon (those are the usernames you should be tagging). Use this for whenever you need to figure out if we have a different username or not (they also update to future name changes), so that you can find the right username to tag when appealing.
 

Royalty

Confused, truth is what I choose
is a Battle Simulator Admin Alumnusis a Forum Moderator Alumnusis a Tiering Contributor Alumnus
DO NOT post an appeal relating to specific room. To appeal your room-ban find one of the room owners on PS! of the room you were banned in and after talking to them you still feel it was unjust you can try talking to an upper staff member ( & or ~ ) if really necessary.

Public Rooms + Owners
All room owner names will be their Pokemon Showdown! name.

Anime & Manga - AceLe, prem, Yuyuko
Art - Bummer, Jac, SolarisFox
Battle Dome - Aelita, Asthmere Sivolisk, Galom, SwampertSolly
Battle Spot - CoolStoryBrobat, Feliburn, Montsegur
Cafe Le Wow - BiGGiE, Imagi, Osiris, Raptor
CAP Project - Birkal, jas61292
Challenges - AM, Bean, DMV, TONE114
Chess - Austin, John, Reverb, Timbuktu
中文 Chinese - qtrx, Starbloom, Yuyuko, bobochan
Competitive Tutoring - AM, Eyan, Trinitrotoluene
Cosmopolitan - Albert, anto, Bulbasword
Deutsche - asgdf, Fairy Fee, Marshmallon, Shame That
Espanol - Asty, Iyarito, Joim, Lost Seso
Francais - Leftiez, qtrx, Reverb, Vinc2612
Game Corner - Saverdien, sirDonovan
Health & Fitness - Ace, hngmn, RosieTheVenusaur
In-Game - BiGGiE, Hydro Impact, LordBlah
Italiano - Inflikted, Parnassius, Test2017, The Quasar
Little Cup - macle, QuoteCS, Rowan
Mafia - Aelita, ajhockeystar, Coronis, SkarmChikora, Snaquaza
MMO - CrushinDefeat, Former Hope, Xylen
MOBA - Acedia, Crestfall, Hippopotas
Monotype - Omega-Xis14, scpinion, Zinnia
Nederlands - Bumbadadabum, Snaquaza
NeverUsed - Hollywood, Raseri, Zebraiken
Old Gens - ashiemore, Beds, Jellicent
Other Metas - Eevee General, hollywood, The Immortal
Overused - Albacore, Julian, Reverb
Portugues - Andromeda Galaxy, darkintruder, woolf, zdrup
PU - Dell, galbia, Magnemite
RarelyUsed - atomicllamas, Barton, Lyto, Molk, Shame That, The leprechaun
Roleplaying - Articuno, Skitty, Jasmine
Scavengers - ashiemore, Queez, Shame That, Xylen
Scholastic - Coronis, DoYouLikeCriminals, Not Canadian, SteelEdges, The Raven, Timbuktu, verbatim
SmashBros - Crestfall, prem, verbatim
Smogon Doubles - Arcticblast, Audiosurfer, Level 51, Stratos
Social Media - BreadHeroDan, tennisace, Zodiax
Sports - BiGGiE, Imanalt
Survivor - Aknolan, Shame That, Swirlyder
TCG - Bumbadadabum, Slarty
Tech & Code - Scotteh
The Happy Place - BreadHeroDan, Saburo, Sigilyph
The Studio - Charles, Jin of the Gale, Kayo, Strength
Tournaments - Blitzamirin, Feliburn, Jin of the Gale, sirDonovan
Trivia - Coronis, SteelEdges, Trickster, Timbuktu
TV & Books & Films - Aelita, Saburo
Ubers - Fireburn, shrang, Sweep,
UnderUsed - CoolStoryBrobat, DMT, dodmen, Hikali, Sam
VGC - Firestorm, Makiri, Nostrom
Video Games - CrushinDefeat, halite, Vexen IV
Wi-Fi - Cranham, RosieTheVenusaur, The Immortal
>Battling - Cranham, RosieTheVenusaur, Tunaface
>Breeding - Cranham, Kalalokki, RosieTheVenusaur, TheMostBrute
Writing - BreadHeroDan, sirDonovan, XTheElegantShadowX
 
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