May 12, 2009 - Offence System Updated
As part of our focus on the RuneScape community, we've transformed our offence system; we've also made some changes to the Rules of RuneScape. Most importantly, many offences will now expire after 12 months.

The main reason we've done this is because we accept that many people learn from their previous mistakes, especially small offences committed long ago. This means that if you have an account that had offences on it, it's entirely possible that they've been removed!

To support this, we no longer issue black marks, we simply record the offences themselves. If you log into the Offence Appeals page, you'll see two pillars: one records offences that can result in being banned, the other records offences that can result in being muted. It should now be much simpler to see your account's status and where you stand.

If you have an account that is still banned or muted after today, we're allowing you another chance to submit an appeal. Our Player Support team will then reassess your offences and decide whether to remove some or all of them.

Furthermore, we have changed the system to allow players who have had their accounts stolen a chance to appeal offences that occurred while it was hijacked. Typically, this happened because the hacker unsuccessfully appealed, leaving the real owner with no chance to appeal for themselves. If you have ever had membership on the account and have built up a significant amount of game time, you'll have another chance to appeal after 21 days.

The Rules of RuneScape

We've updated the way the rules are organised to make it simpler for you to report abuse and to keep yourself free of offences. The rules are now organised under three general headings (click here to read about the rules in full):

• Honour
  Offences related to cheating (like scamming, macroing, real-world trading, etc.)
• Respect
  Offences related to inappropriate behaviour (like obscene language, discrimination, bullying, etc.)
• Security
  Offences related to real-world safety and security threats (like asking for real-life contact details, website advertising, etc.)

To help out with this, we'll also be updating the in-game report abuse feature. You'll then see two screens - one for entering the player's name, and another for selecting the rule they've broken.

Due to the size of this project, we've launched all of the website features today, while the in-game interface will be released with this week's server reboot.

Final Note

If you receive a ban or mute in-game, this will also prevent you from using the forums. Equally, if you receive a forum ban, you'll be muted in-game. This is because we believe that players should be treated equally whether they're playing the game or posting on the forums.

Please note that because of the changes to how different offences are treated, it's possible that any ban or mute you are currently affected by may have changed. For example, if you had three days left of a five-day mute yesterday, today you could have five days left of a ten-day mute, or one day left of a three-day mute.

This is good.

This is real good.

Ogod. One of my black marks is gone. GONE I SAY.

Now I'm appealing the other on the grounds of it being a draconian punishment and hopefully I'll be clean as a.

you offend my honour

YOU GET BAN

I lol'd

thats a good idea lol

You don't have to quote the whole post.

I've only gotten one offence ever, so I don't really care about this update.

That's a little bit too much.

Don't tell me you ever post on RSOF.

I did before I found Runecrypt.
After I registered on runecrpyt i hated the rsof

thank god, I can finally get rid of that mute for saying youtube

I own the official forums, yall dont even know.

Pics. I want them.

Just a teaser

ty

Still in hopes of regaining my old account. But knowing my luck after trying to get my password back so I can appeal my ban for 3+ years that I've tried to get back well over 20 times, I don't think it will work sadly. But here's for good luck. *crosses fingers*

Good luck broli :]

+1

LOL @ Kreo's screenie, I wonder why all those usernames seem familiar

Thanks guys for the luck. I got the account back miraculously.

the first proper success of the new system!

Yay, I new it would happen Broli <3

Holy Hollyhocks Batman!

My appeal was accepted.

You were banned? Well, gratz

my pure has been unbanned

it was almost too easy...

Seems Jagex is giving everyone a clean sheet

Not banned, just had a couple of black marks for apparent language. I bypassed the filters on the word naked.

Still no reply Maybe they are doing the mute appeals second to normal offenses?

I should see if kami is able to get his original account back. It would be pretty amusing if they did

Don't think so. I appealed my mute probably about two weeks ago and I got the reply this week.

Matt, I think that might be a stretch for Jagex, lol. If Kami got his account back, I would laugh because it really would be epic.

well they were stupid enough to give me my account back with over 20mill of glitched items.

nah, impossible matt they have kami's rsn on a dartboard in jagex hq for guys to throw shit at

Woohoo - unpermuted!

Gratz <3

Hey you level 119, put on your veracs I want to see you naky pls


Doubt it