Post: Playstation Banning Reasons and Explanations
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12-08-2010, 11:26 PM
#1
CLM
[b]They say sorry Mr. West is..[/b]
If you've been banned or suspended from accessing your psn account then one of these might be the reason.
Verbal/Text Abuse
Offender was verbally abusive in some way, often including use of profanity, verbal threats or insults, or otherwise offensive or inappropriate language. This can be either via verbal or text comments.
Cheating
Doing or utilizing anything that gives the player a greater advantage than is intended for normal game play.
Hate Speech
Offender used hateful language that attacks or disparages a person or group, based on characteristics of a certain group, including (but not limited to) race/ethnicity, gender, religion or sexual orientation.
Personal Information
Offender revealed personal contact information about themselves in a public area, such as email addresses, phone numbers, or physical addresses.
Other person's information
Offender revealed personal information about someone else in a public area, such as email addresses, phone numbers, or physical addresses.
Abusing Grief Reporting
Offender misused the grief reporting system by filing false reports against another user, or filing an excessive number of unverifiable or redundant reports in a brief amount of time.
Impersonating another user
Offender created an account with close similarity to an existing user, with perceived intentions to impersonate the other user without their consent.
Spamming
Offender excessively posted the same word or phrase, or gibberish to the annoyance of others.
Grooming
Offender encouraged other users to commit inappropriate or illegal acts in game or the real world.
Sexual harassment
Offender made sexually implied or explicit comments or performed actions that had definite sexual overtones, whether welcomed or not.
Account scamming
Offender tried to persuade another user to share account information, including but not limited to logins, passwords, bank accounts, credit card information, etc. by any means possible.
Impersonating a SCEA representative
Offender made comments or created an account ID that could cause other users to believe that they were a SCEA representative or have similar authority.
Child protection
Offender made comments, sent PMs (Private Messages), or created an ID relating to inappropriate behavior toward children, including physical or sexual abuse and pornography.
Inappropriate Online ID
Offender created an ID that was deemed inappropriate in some way, including but not limited to containing profanity, sexual references, or hate speech language.
Offensive Image or Audio
Offender posted images or broadcasted audio that contained obscenities, profanity, or was otherwise in violation of the PSN Terms of Service.
Team Killing (Yes believe it or not, you can get banned for this)
Offender killed his own team off in a multi-player network game.
Game Glitch
Exploiting any issue/environment, not intended to be accessible, to give oneself an unfair advantage in online play.
Cheat codes
Offender used a secret code to gain an advantage in game play.
Distributing Cheats
Offender shared or made public codes that give an advantage in game play.
Voice Communication Blocking
Offender purposely uses sound to disrupt voice chat for others.
Pornographic or Obscene Image
Offender either uploaded or created an offensive image either as part of a game or attached to a PM (Private Message).
Community Standards Abuse
An act that breaks the various agreements required to be accepted to access and use anything on the PlayStation®Network that is not defined by other offenses.
False Registration Information
Offender created an account with false information (email address, date of birth, name, address, etc.).
Reversal of charges
A console or account may be banned due to having a credit card charge reversed or "charge back" resulting in debt. A charge back can include credit card theft, identity theft, or non-approved use.
Share / Hijack Account
Sharing personal PSN account information in order to obtain access to another persons PSN account. Changing another persons email address, and/or password without their permission in order to gain and control access to an account. Offender attempted to use or take content they did not pay for.
Fraud
A console and/or account may be banned if it is associated with fraudulent purchases. (Credit card theft, identity theft or non-approved use by family or friends).
Disrupting a Game
Offender was caught doing something that disrupts another user playing a mini-game.
12-09-2010, 07:39 PM
#29
iNaz
Vault dweller
Originally posted by Dr.
Team killing, no-ones gonna be banned for that really. Anyone that reports a teamkiller is a fag anyway. And i've never used the PS report as I find block and delete a lot easier. Good information though :y:
How do yo u report and thank good we can have this stuff to make it more friendlier.
12-10-2010, 04:04 PM
#30
ResistTheSun
In Flames Much?
Just to let you know.....
PSN has a strange reporting system only the PSN side can be reported and certain games. 1st party games have mods which watch over them.
Devs police there own games for example black ops
I say strange it more like PC then Xbox each system has it own reporting system
PSN has a strange reporting system only the PSN side can be reported and certain games. 1st party games have mods which watch over them.
Devs police there own games for example black ops
I say strange it more like PC then Xbox each system has it own reporting system
12-10-2010, 05:55 PM
#31
x i Su1c1d3 i x
Little One
Thanks for the list but, you must be kidding me. There is Team Killing on the list! Wtf?
Now i know how my friend got banned.
12-12-2010, 08:13 PM
#36
MarioDaKid
.:SwagTeam or Die:.
I never knew that you could even get banned on PSN. I broke like all of those rules already.
12-13-2010, 12:53 AM
#37
Toptuning
Dexter FTW !!!
Originally posted by ClutchLikeMelo
Verbal/Text Abuse
Offender was verbally abusive in some way, often including use of profanity, verbal threats or insults, or otherwise offensive or inappropriate language. This can be either via verbal or text comments.
I do it mostly in Swiss dialect when somebody makes me angry.
Cheating
Doing or utilizing anything that gives the player a greater advantage than is intended for normal game play.
I love glitching but cheating is an other thing. They add the cheat codes in the game.
Hate Speech
Offender used hateful language that attacks or disparages a person or group, based on characteristics of a certain group, including (but not limited to) race/ethnicity, gender, religion or sexual orientation.
Only to people who started insulting me.
Personal Information
Offender revealed personal contact information about themselves in a public area, such as email addresses, phone numbers, or physical addresses.
What happens when I give my friend my mobile phone number?
Other person's information
Offender revealed personal information about someone else in a public area, such as email addresses, phone numbers, or physical addresses.
And what happens when I ask my friend for his mobile phone number?
Abusing Grief Reporting
Offender misused the grief reporting system by filing false reports against another user, or filing an excessive number of unverifiable or redundant reports in a brief amount of time.
Sorry Sony, but you have only 3 options in your list for report a person. I don't know what to select!
Impersonating another user
Offender created an account with close similarity to an existing user, with perceived intentions to impersonate the other user without their consent.
I've many fanboys and they use a similiar name like mine. Can I report them?
Spamming
Offender excessively posted the same word or phrase, or gibberish to the annoyance of others.
Spamming to my friends is my privacy. I like to spam my youtube channel so they can watch the newest videos.
Sexual harassment
Offender made sexually implied or explicit comments or performed actions that had definite sexual overtones, whether welcomed or not.
If I'm in a Party (example MW2) and I forgot to deactivate my microphone while watching porn, they can report me?
Impersonating a SCEA representative
Offender made comments or created an account ID that could cause other users to believe that they were a SCEA representative or have similar authority.
If I write in my comentary "**** YOU SONY" because you bring shit Firmware Updates out, you can ban me?
Child protection
Offender made comments, sent PMs (Private Messages), or created an ID relating to inappropriate behavior toward children, including physical or sexual abuse and pornography.
Wait... A fangirl sended me a picture of her pussy. What happens?
Offensive Image or Audio
Offender posted images or broadcasted audio that contained obscenities, profanity, or was otherwise in violation of the PSN Terms of Service.
The same of above.
Team Killing (Yes believe it or not, you can get banned for this)
Offender killed his own team off in a multi-player network game.
ARE YOU CRAZY !!! I remember in CoD4 when I played hardcore mode many people killed a teammate by going on front of him while shoting.
Game Glitch
Exploiting any issue/environment, not intended to be accessible, to give oneself an unfair advantage in online play.
I like doing game glitches but only in Private Games (Elevators, Shotgun Jumps, Stafe Jumps, etc...
Cheat codes
Offender used a secret code to gain an advantage in game play.
The game devolepers should NOT ad cheat codes to their games.
Distributing Cheats
Offender shared or made public codes that give an advantage in game play.
The same as above.
Voice Communication Blocking
Offender purposely uses sound to disrupt voice chat for others.
Then they should mute me.
Pornographic or Obscene Image
Offender either uploaded or created an offensive image either as part of a game or attached to a PM (Private Message).
This is like I said before with this Fangirl (it don't disturbed me) but when a fanboy does it then it's a big problem.
False Registration Information
Offender created an account with false information (email address, date of birth, name, address, etc.).
I enjoy downloads of the EEUU PSStore because we in Europe don't have many things to download. MY INFORMATIONS ARE ALL FAKE !!!
Share / Hijack Account
Sharing personal PSN account information in order to obtain access to another persons PSN account. Changing another persons email address, and/or password without their permission in order to gain and control access to an account. Offender attempted to use or take content they did not pay for.
Sorry Sony but when I wan't download a game from my neighbour he gives me permises to download from his account so I give him my account so he can download thing too.
Offender was verbally abusive in some way, often including use of profanity, verbal threats or insults, or otherwise offensive or inappropriate language. This can be either via verbal or text comments.
I do it mostly in Swiss dialect when somebody makes me angry.
Cheating
Doing or utilizing anything that gives the player a greater advantage than is intended for normal game play.
I love glitching but cheating is an other thing. They add the cheat codes in the game.
Hate Speech
Offender used hateful language that attacks or disparages a person or group, based on characteristics of a certain group, including (but not limited to) race/ethnicity, gender, religion or sexual orientation.
Only to people who started insulting me.
Personal Information
Offender revealed personal contact information about themselves in a public area, such as email addresses, phone numbers, or physical addresses.
What happens when I give my friend my mobile phone number?
Other person's information
Offender revealed personal information about someone else in a public area, such as email addresses, phone numbers, or physical addresses.
And what happens when I ask my friend for his mobile phone number?
Abusing Grief Reporting
Offender misused the grief reporting system by filing false reports against another user, or filing an excessive number of unverifiable or redundant reports in a brief amount of time.
Sorry Sony, but you have only 3 options in your list for report a person. I don't know what to select!
Impersonating another user
Offender created an account with close similarity to an existing user, with perceived intentions to impersonate the other user without their consent.
I've many fanboys and they use a similiar name like mine. Can I report them?
Spamming
Offender excessively posted the same word or phrase, or gibberish to the annoyance of others.
Spamming to my friends is my privacy. I like to spam my youtube channel so they can watch the newest videos.
Sexual harassment
Offender made sexually implied or explicit comments or performed actions that had definite sexual overtones, whether welcomed or not.
If I'm in a Party (example MW2) and I forgot to deactivate my microphone while watching porn, they can report me?
Impersonating a SCEA representative
Offender made comments or created an account ID that could cause other users to believe that they were a SCEA representative or have similar authority.
If I write in my comentary "**** YOU SONY" because you bring shit Firmware Updates out, you can ban me?
Child protection
Offender made comments, sent PMs (Private Messages), or created an ID relating to inappropriate behavior toward children, including physical or sexual abuse and pornography.
Wait... A fangirl sended me a picture of her pussy. What happens?
Offensive Image or Audio
Offender posted images or broadcasted audio that contained obscenities, profanity, or was otherwise in violation of the PSN Terms of Service.
The same of above.
Team Killing (Yes believe it or not, you can get banned for this)
Offender killed his own team off in a multi-player network game.
ARE YOU CRAZY !!! I remember in CoD4 when I played hardcore mode many people killed a teammate by going on front of him while shoting.
Game Glitch
Exploiting any issue/environment, not intended to be accessible, to give oneself an unfair advantage in online play.
I like doing game glitches but only in Private Games (Elevators, Shotgun Jumps, Stafe Jumps, etc...
Cheat codes
Offender used a secret code to gain an advantage in game play.
The game devolepers should NOT ad cheat codes to their games.
Distributing Cheats
Offender shared or made public codes that give an advantage in game play.
The same as above.
Voice Communication Blocking
Offender purposely uses sound to disrupt voice chat for others.
Then they should mute me.
Pornographic or Obscene Image
Offender either uploaded or created an offensive image either as part of a game or attached to a PM (Private Message).
This is like I said before with this Fangirl (it don't disturbed me) but when a fanboy does it then it's a big problem.
False Registration Information
Offender created an account with false information (email address, date of birth, name, address, etc.).
I enjoy downloads of the EEUU PSStore because we in Europe don't have many things to download. MY INFORMATIONS ARE ALL FAKE !!!
Share / Hijack Account
Sharing personal PSN account information in order to obtain access to another persons PSN account. Changing another persons email address, and/or password without their permission in order to gain and control access to an account. Offender attempted to use or take content they did not pay for.
Sorry Sony but when I wan't download a game from my neighbour he gives me permises to download from his account so I give him my account so he can download thing too.
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