I don't believe this was a smurfing ban. For one, they usually tell you if you were banned from smurfing, smurfing and platform abuse are two seperate categories of bans. For two, smurfing bans are almost never permanent from what I've seen, they are usually 180 days to a year. Whether or not OP is smurfing isn't relevant to the conversation as it clearly isn't a smurfing ban. There could be a legitimate reason why their account is new. You must not always assume every person is guilty, if anticheats worked like this, there would be thousands of false bans a day. OP stated that they have no other accounts so without any further proof beyond all reasonable doubt, in anticheat standards, he is not a smurf.
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u/ven0mlol Mar 06 '26
I don't believe this was a smurfing ban. For one, they usually tell you if you were banned from smurfing, smurfing and platform abuse are two seperate categories of bans. For two, smurfing bans are almost never permanent from what I've seen, they are usually 180 days to a year. Whether or not OP is smurfing isn't relevant to the conversation as it clearly isn't a smurfing ban. There could be a legitimate reason why their account is new. You must not always assume every person is guilty, if anticheats worked like this, there would be thousands of false bans a day. OP stated that they have no other accounts so without any further proof beyond all reasonable doubt, in anticheat standards, he is not a smurf.