RuneScape False Bans - A Deep Dive Investigation

"Im not a bot, I'm just autistic." A RuneScape story as old as time.

hanannie is the only youtuber to ask a question, spend 45minutes explaining, then say idfk the answer. pure comedy gold.

This has been the most informative and at the same time, least informative video on false bans. Thank you Hannah.

"I'm not botting, I'm just autistic" 😭

I can't believe Hannah is working for the Feds

My strategy is never logging in. They havent gotten me yet.

You always strike such a beautiful balance of informal comedy meets formal presentation Hannah. It's like seemingly disorganized, actually highly informative, multiple sidebars, and it ends in "welp... guess that's it" with no true answer (kinda in a good way though, it shows you're being as unbiased as possible lol). And that's the Hannannie guarantee!

Hannanie, with the help of Mod Matt K, gave bot creators the information they need to create the perfect undetectable bot. The Hannabot

I think the best solution is if every single runescape player that has ever existed becomes a large content creator, that way we all have customer support... IT'S BULLET PROOF

Thank you for getting my story out there Hannah <3

I need help, my account is locked due to unpaid balance because cash app charged back on bonds; I am waiting to hear back via email because the payment window never loads for me to pay off the balance, any advice?

Funny how Jagex apparently did the exact opposite of every other developer. Started with banning players after swearing three times, and now just tolerating the most vile sentences a human being can utter while telling players to just suck it up. Yet nowadays people get banned for using words that contain letters that together form a misspelled version of a 'naughty word' like kumquat. Or like not being able to name a custom class 'Assault' in COD because of the first three letters. Sometimes it makes it even worse, like the guy whose username was partly censored... Poor Nasser.

Thank you for making this! I'm someone that has been in the false bans boat for over half a year now on my UIM with 6k+ hours and the video was quite comforting since I feel like a lot of process of dealing with a false ban is yelling as loud as you can, yet not having your voice heard which feels deeply helpless. The part in the conclusion about being nervous about false bans when playing the game is such a real thing. My personal experience with that is that I just get stressed when playing the game and it boots me to the login screen and I try logging in again only to find out I just disconnected and can log in again perfectly fine. I believe an obvious, yet often unstated factor contributing to likelihood of false bans would be previous ban history. My UIM got a false ban after 10 or so days after starting to play on it, but it was a temporary 2 day botting ban and I already had over 100+ hours on it that I didn't want to replay, along with an ongoing membership I didn't want to go to waste. I decided to just suck it up, wait the 2 days and keep playing. About 4 months later I was hit with a permaban, but I was fortunate enough that support system got me in contact with someone and just a few hours later I was unbanned. I continued to put another few thousand hours into the account, getting the account to 2.1k total with some big ticket UIM drops. And then, I got banned again, this time over a year after the previous ones to which I still haven't had any dice getting a Jmod to look into it. The reason why I believe I can isolate that factor is because my maxed main and 1.9k duo GIM are entirely untouched by any kind of infraction, despite me doing the exact same or similar things on them such as training methods for thousands of hours. It should be blatantly obvious on Jagex's end that all of my accounts are under my ownership as well. Thus, I would guess a lot of my issues arose from the ban I got about 10 days into the account, despite it being "just" a temporary ban it has caused so much headache and heartache for me down the line. With hindsight, I regret not just sucking it up, losing the rest of the membership on the account and redoing the progress I had made since it was just a hundredish hours compared to the thousands I now stand to never be able to get back. Still, no one should ever be pushed to decide to give up hours of progress and days of membership just because they caught a ban for being a newer account.

it's so funny seeing this video after Settled got banned in his new series

My account was falsely banned until recently, after somebody had hijacked it. The person didn't do any damage on the account, in fact quite the opposite - and was a Revenant farm bot. Made me a decent amount of GP lol. After appealing the ban and explaining my end, Jagex denied my appeal. I then submitted another ticket under an entirely different issue since you can't appeal a ban more then once, explaining that I'd been falsely banned, and my account was quickly unbanned as it was explained to me that they'd then noticed IP differences in my account from the person who had logged onto it, and understood the situation. What frustrated me was the lack of communication, and this being a several month long process of attempting to get the account back after being denied at the first appeal, which shouldn't have happened in the first place. Great video! At least my understanding of what happened in my situation is more clear now.

Totally normal video here, no federal operations whatsoever

You've reminded me of when I tried to intoduce my friend to OSRS; we played for a few hours and then I headed off for the night, and the next day he told me his account had been permenantly banned. I can only assume it has something to do with him living in Chile, as I don't believe he would cheat in OSRS seeing as he'd never played it before

10:00 Jagex did try locking botters in cages and having people throw tomatoes at them, it was called Botany Bay

Also im not so sure how much reports count or maybe things are different in RS3 but during Fresh Start Worlds I made 4 alt account that all power leveled with the FSW boosted xp rates to get them all set up as afk accounts. I dress them all the same and gave them all the same name with 1 digit difference and the sheer amount of people who automatically assume im botting and insta report me is insane! My accounts much have been reported hundreds of times and luckily ive never caught a false ban. Ive been watching my screen when some people talk about "hey look at those obvious bots all stacked up over there, make sure to report em" to which I normally respond "Your moms a bot" and that makes me feel something in life.

Funny how there's all these false bans going around yet every F2P world has hundreds of bots that have got to 99 in multiple skills that just sit around skilling 24/7 and never get banned