Banned from LVS but don't know why

[Topazh]

Hello there!

To start off: Sorry if I'm double posting, made a thread 3 days ago at the time I was banned but it has yet to show up so figured there has to be something wrong.

On to the topic at hand: I was playing on the LVS server a few days ago, I'm a new player and just started building my first house in a really nice spot I found in the riverbend area. Durning my playing session I got, from my point of view, suddenly banned out of the blue for "griefing" which I certainly did not do! At least not to my knowledge. I've read through all the rules clearly beforehand and I cannot think of any reason for this ban I recieved, most of all I'm just sitting here feeling confused. So I'm honestly thinking there's been some sort of a mistake going on here, if I'm incorrect please do point out to me what I did wrong cause I have no idea. :I

Now I'll go over the activities that took place in the minutes before my ban and get to what is my only logical conclusion at the end: Looking forward to setting up my base and starting to make some friends I decided to head over to another player who was asking if anyone wanted to check out their incinerating machine they were working on. They had placed 2 chests, that from what I could tell had one line of hoppers leading into a pool of lava, the other going into a third chest. Curious about this device my fellow player was showing off I decided to put a piece of gravel in each chest and see where they would go. As expected I heard a fizzle coming from the lava as one of the blocks was burned up, curious to see if my other block had ended up in the output chest of the machine I opened it, and upon finding my block of gravel in there, took it back out.

The player making the machine said they needed a minute to finish it, so I decided to go off to find some decorations for the house I was working on. I ran around riverbend for a little bit until I found a large area of forest that was uninhabited (as far as I could see at least, no torches in the area at all so it was pitch black since it was in the middle of the night). I saw some flowers, picked a few yellow ones, some red, some pink, and started to move back to my house, but just a few seconds after picking the last flower I was kicked off and banned for griefing.

Now, all I can think of in terms of why I was banned would be either I was accidentally in someone elses area (although it was in the middle of the forest where nobody was building and there were no torches around - aka they had an underground base) and I was automatically detected for breaking blocks (flowers) in their area. Or, I was detected removing items from another player's chest (the one gravel block I sent through the machine) and as such banned for that action somehow?

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So to conclude it all: I'd be very interested to know the actual reason for my ban, and if I actually did something to break the rules, I take full responsibility for that action and deeply apologize for any damage I have caused! Otherwise, I'd humbly ask if I could be allowed back on the server again? Banned or not, I had a great time playing on the server, and thank those people who were nice enough to help me get started!

~Topazh

[LadyBountiful]

Thank you for you detailed appeal. We have an offline automatic banning system which detects when a new player breaks a block that they did not place. I suspect that you have fallen foul of this. I will unban you. Please reread our rules, and welcome back. If you were in jail when you were banned, then you might have to be online when either Zed or I are online so we can release you.