Hello,
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I'll start with saying that I have always had really big problems with communication using this help tool (the new Customer Support Tool was excellent, by the way - where did it go?). I never seem to be able to get replies using this contact form and so it would be appreciated if you could reply using
[email protected] as well as *REMOVED* in case it doesn't work. If so that would be brilliant.
I will outline the situation in which I was banned. I am an Assistant General Manager for the popular Habbo fansite
www.habbox.com. This site is listed on the Habbo Fansite group and as such the website and it's staff / members are, I understand, permitted to promote the website on the Hotel itself. Recently members of Habbox staff, notably the senior management team, have been driving to promote our website even further on Habbo Hotel. In order to do this, we have held a number of giveaways (at least one a day) in the past week. I held one at 2AM BST a couple of days ago and, I started one at around 11:30AM BST today (31/07/2010).
In order to promote our website on the Hotel, to get the free furni the giveaway offers we tell members in the room to get a code from either
www.habboxlive.com,
www.habboxforum.com or
www.habbox.com itself. This has always been our policy in giveaways and thus far no one has had any issues arising from this. When an individual approaches me in the giveaway queue, I would ask them for the code. Once they had given me the code, they would receive the free furni.
For some unknown reason during this giveaway I was muted for ten minutes. I do not know why, but I can only assume it was because I kept asking for the code or I was promoting Habbox.com. However I was not given any kind of pre warning and I did not know that I had broken any rules. Because I was confused as to why I had been muted I sent a call for help asking why, as no reason was supplied. With no response, alert or warning, I was banned:
You have been banned! The reason for the ban is "Disruption Ban: Permanent". The ban will expire at 12/26/21 10:50 PM Eastern Time.
I don't understand the reason for this ban and the only thing I was trying to do was promote the website I help run on the website it is dedicated to. I was not in any way trying to be disruptive and I apologise if I came across that way. As far as I was aware everyone in the room was quite happy, given that they were getting free furni.
Could the ban please be lifted as I do not believe I have done anything wrong.
Kind regards,
Garion