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.
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:
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.
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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