What gives"

[doggypwn]

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If asdf and the rest of us are relevant to this discussion in any way, it's this:

For some reason, the mods decided to give us another shot.

Still no idea why, but here's my best guess:

-We returned the blocks we gained with the glitch (which we discovered accidentally. The nether ended up with several layers of crafting tables after we got caught up in the hilarity of the situation of oh-my-god-why-won't-I-run-out-of-crafting-tables.)
-That said, we understood we had done something wrong especially when we tried the same area with 'real blocks' and it worked.
-When the banhammer came down, we accepted our bans with humility and the comprehension that we had done something wrong.
-We didn't haunt the forums trying to haggle for a second chance. (Go search the archives.)
-We didn't expect it or try to deserve it. When it happened, we didn't even know we had been given the second chance for a while.

Again this is completely a guess. What we did after we messed up might or might not help you. But if you're insistent on trying to game your way back in, it's a decent bet that it's a smarter option than the flame/whine/bargain strategy you got going on right now.

Good luck.

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a) You were forced to return the items by being banned, and even
b) You were only unbanned because asdf donated a shit ton of money.

Just pointing it out there, not trying to flame.

I will respond to this the same way the admins have to pavja and many other people before, Ian, saying that money makes zero impact on your chance to be banned/unbanned. Look at me. I've been banned twice before, and I've never donated a penny. Have I been permanently shunned? No. As for the topic here, I believe that NLewis should get another chance. He's had a *lot* of previous bans, I know, but I seriously believe that this one wasn't just him goofing off and doing something stupid. This mod looks to be nothing more than a bunch of hotkeys, what's so bad about that? Should everyone be banned from strategy games for using ctrl+# to organize armies? Hell. No. I can see the use of this mod, but to avoid future misconceptions I would suggest you uninstall it Lewis, mostly because the number keys are easy enough to navigate and because people tend to lean in, well, the direction they already have here. Thank you for reading my massive wall of text.

TLR: I think NLewis should come back and remove his hotkey mod.