over 7 years

Hello everyone,

We’ve been receiving a lot of messages in regards to VWXYZ by-passing his ban. We’re aware we have newer players and hosts in our community and we would like to remind everyone VWXYZ is permanently banned from the Survivor lobby.

The moderation team agreed that we would be reviewing VWXYZ's ban after 6 months. Our hopes were that he would learn from his time away from the lobby and return with better behavior and less toxic attitude. The 6 months have not yet passed, and thus we had not yet reviewed his ban.

VWXYZ has continued to by-pass his ban. The alts he has by-passed on have been reported to us privately. These alts have been reported for harassment, disruption of games, as well as potential cheating. Our current decision is as follows, VWXYZ is permanently banned from the Survivor Lobby.


VWXYZ’s rule-breakage history:

  1. Cheating 1st - 9 months and 18 days ago – Unbanned 08/05/16
  2. Cheating 2nd – 6 months and 22 days ago – Unbanned 11/24/16
  3. Harassment – Final ban/Permanently banned

Along with his violations, we received many complaints about his behavior and toxicity. Many players and hosts believed he was cheating. As most of you know, it is incredibly difficult to get violations in our lobby and even tougher to be banned from our lobby. Our rules are simple, and for the most part, everyone follows them. The gist of our rules- don’t cheat and respect each other.


If you suspect an account is VWXYZ, please alert the host and message our lobby moderation team immediately.

Please do not assist VWXYZ with by-passing his ban. Any users caught doing this will receive a violation. This is written in our rules.

VWXYZ has asked for unlinked alternate accounts to play games, as well as trophy games. Do not give him this information, this is considered assisting with by-passing and is punishable.

VWXYZ may ask for your account information to play under your accounts. Do not give him this information, this can lead to your account being compromised.

Please be very careful opening EpicMafia messages from VWXYZ, as well as adding him on Skype. We have no reports of hidden links, but it’s always a possibility and is a common thing banned users do. (Hidden links will compromise your account and potentially contain viruses.)

Hosts: Please note VWXYZ may privately message you in regards to joining a game with a password. Do not give him the password for your game, even if he wants to "watch" in the graveyard. Although we trust many players to watch games through the graveyard function, VWXYZ is a banned user and has a history of cheating. He is not allowed to watch games from the graveyard.

To end this, our intention is never to permanently ban someone from playing Survivor. We are a very open community, we allow anyone to play, as long as our rules are respected and followed. We have people who spend hours planning, preparing, playing, and hosting games and it is our responsibility, as well as yours, to keep these games running as smooth as possible. Our intent as a moderation team is to protect each and every member of our community. We have rules to do so. VWXYZ continues to mock the rules and guidelines our community is built on. We hoped this situation would be positively resolved and it's unfortunate this is how it's ended up. We thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience VWXYZ may have caused in your games and Survivor lobby experience. We are working with site moderators, as well as site admins to find a solution.

Thank you all for your cooperation and we will continue our transparency throughout this situation.


Known VWXYZ accounts/alts:

  • VWXYZ
  • VoiceIsThreat
  • awdadjwadhui
  • dawdadaiwd
  • bigblackballoon
  • SNAGGGGGOODDDD
  • Howtolose
  • sadnessawaits
  • foryourinformation
  • testmeplease
  • Brooklyn
over 5 years
rippp
over 5 years
Bump.
about 6 years
this VWXYZ guy sounds like a proper menace. I'll be sure to lock my windows at night from now on.
about 6 years
no
about 6 years
can he be unbanned now
over 6 years
nah
deletedover 6 years
Let him back in u worms
over 7 years
so is VWXYZ the abc of survivor lobby
over 7 years

Anxiety says



but sure lets keep talking about him


u should know thats how bans work in survivor lobby
deletedover 7 years
if you had banished this guy to the shadow realm like I advised originally he would be twiddling his thumbs in darkness for eternity

but sure lets keep talking about him
over 7 years

hedger says

May as well ban me for mocking this lobby's team and rules :) Didn't realise VWX was worse than abc now.


the difference is that abc won't get caught if he chooses not to
deletedover 7 years
this is what vwxyz gets for being a d*ck to my old main: jacobalt0523
over 7 years
TEAM CAMMY

FIGHT THE PATRIARCHY

CAMS IS GREAT

CAMSFORPRES

CAMS2020
over 7 years

matt says

vwxyz is confirmed brooklyn right

b/c i called that almost instantly


yes
over 7 years

HardCarry says


Bebop says

the amount of effort put into banning this one dude is crazy and not in a good way


It appears that way because Survivor Lobby mods unfortunately do not have the power to IP Ban someone without going through Main Lobby moderators. We wouldn't have to deal with this if we could. Additionally, the Survivor Lobby doesn't usually ban people, this is a rare incident (the only incident where a person has received 3 vios). The last time a forum post had to be made about a ban was when TrickyNicky was banned a year ago. Because bans never happen, VWXYZ getting banned seems like we're putting a huge deal of effort into stopping him.


i wouldn't say there's been "a lot" of effort. most of the effort went into writing this up bc we're very transparent w/ our community. we have players who actually are assisting us a lot. we haven't received really any complaints since we posted this, so it seems like a job well done. also, to rob's point, most of the effort went towards finding a site mod to get a site admin to do IP checks, which ended up working out really well thanks to an BALLIN' mod
over 7 years

hedger says

May as well ban me for mocking this lobby's team and rules :) Didn't realise VWX was worse than abc now.


he's not banned for mocking, he's banned for cheating and harassment. :)
over 7 years
vwxyz is confirmed brooklyn right

b/c i called that almost instantly
over 7 years

Bebop says

the amount of effort put into banning this one dude is crazy and not in a good way


It appears that way because Survivor Lobby mods unfortunately do not have the power to IP Ban someone without going through Main Lobby moderators. We wouldn't have to deal with this if we could. Additionally, the Survivor Lobby doesn't usually ban people, this is a rare incident (the only incident where a person has received 3 vios). The last time a forum post had to be made about a ban was when TrickyNicky was banned a year ago. Because bans never happen, VWXYZ getting banned seems like we're putting a huge deal of effort into stopping him.
over 7 years
Well, abc didn't break the rules of vivor lobby, neither did you hedger (as far as I know?) so no need for bans.

And I for one am glad that the lobby mods care about the lobby here.
over 7 years
the amount of effort put into banning this one dude is crazy and not in a good way
over 7 years
the difference between abc and VWX is that survivor lobby mods care and main lobby mods don't.
over 7 years
May as well ban me for mocking this lobby's team and rules :) Didn't realise VWX was worse than abc now.
over 7 years
brooklyn was an alt all along?

i, for one, am shocked

never in all my years on this lobby have i witnessed such a treachery

and worse, a catfish alt?

truly, a travesty.

i didnt know things like this could happen to someone like me

im absolutely appalled that this could ever happen, and certainly pray nothing like it ever happens again
over 7 years

Jellofish says

if the situation is so serious and his ban was bad enough to be permanent then why are you making jokes out of it?


i think there's a large chunk of people that don't understand why he didn't just wait the 6 months and find that amusing. also, +1 rob. VWXYZ found it funny that we asked him to stop bypassing, pretty much openly mocks the moderation team as well as our community rules. if he finds his bypassing funny, i'll enjoy his ban as well.
over 7 years

Jellofish says

if the situation is so serious and his ban was bad enough to be permanent then why are you making jokes out of it?


Maybe if VWXYZ hadn't gloated to us about bypassing on his alts and us not catching him or maybe if VWXYZ hadn't said sh*t like

"U can't do anything
I can bypass what are u gonna do about it,"

or

"And if I'm
Perma banned
Why would I not bypass
Can I ask u that
What are you gonna do
Ban me
Lol"

I might have been more sympathetic towards his situation.