Quote Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz
Quote Originally Posted by Vyndree
You can never be too careful these days -- Warden has made mistakes in the past and honest people got banned for it.
I suppose this is true, though I firmly believe the scale of this has been blown out of all reasonable proportion due to disingenuous cheaters trying to make it look like they're all simply victims of The Man(tm) trying to Keep A Brotha Down(tm). While I'm sympathetic to people getting accidentally ground under the proverbial wheels of blind justice, I also believe that you could fashion an entire series of Paul Harvey's "The Rest Of The Story" out of nothing but people who said they got falsely banned for having benign software when they really got banned for doing something else explicitly against the ToS. Engage in enough shady conduct or ToS-skirting behavior and you WILL get owned. True story.
I was actually referring to the people who used a certain config of Linux that got swept in with real botters during a ban-wave.

As far as I know, it was reversed for those who contacted Blizzard, but so were a whole bunch of botters who saw an easy way to get their botter ban un-done. From what I understand, game-time was added on to the account for the lost game time during the linux ban as well.

Just an FYI - if Blizz accidentally banned linux users in the past, they can ban you unjustly for any software you happen to run on your computer that doesn't "play nice" with Warden. It's always a risk, and can be reversed if the ban was a mistake. Just keeping people aware.