Xray Ban Appeal

These diamonds were not visible from your strip mine. There was a layer of stone between you and them. There were no other minerals between you, such as gold or lapis, that might have attracted you to dig there. Just stone.

In fact, you walked past redstone (and left it unmined) to get to where the diamonds were. And yet, you magically directed your strip mine to directly over the diamonds, and magically dug down exactly where they were.

If this had been an isolated event, maybe. But this is just one example. There were others.

Your ban is for 7 days. The next xray will be permanent. Cheers.

p.s. You wrote "I did not realize that random mining was not allowed." You misspelled "I did not realize that xray mining was not allowed."

p.p.s. How you get to/from your mine is irrelevant. Taking advantage of a /sethome to go back/forth is smart. That has nothing to do with this tempban, but nice attempt to redirect. As Wil Wheaton would say, "Points."

JavaNinja,

You said before in reference to the incident that you mention: "If this had been an isolated event, maybe. But this is just one example. There were others." That being the case I would like to see evidence (such as screenshots) that this was not an isolated event, as by your own standards just this event alone would not be sufficient evidence.

Best,
Brangus.

JavaNinja,

Thank you very much! I seriously appreciate your reconsideration of the issue. I hope there are no hard feelings and I wish you the best!

Cheers,
Brangus.

First of all thank you for being so understanding, we really appreciate it. We're only human, we all make mistakes sometimes.

Secondly, you were asking a lot about what you did wrong so you could avoid a false accusation in the future, and honestly there are a few things you could do that would really help us. Your mines are honestly not the cleanest, and that's okay. But the issue is that, even with all the plugins we have at our disposal, it was often still really hard to figure out where you were mining to/from and how it was exactly that you stumbled upon a given ore block. This means that when something looked like xray we had to really go out of our way to figure out what the heck you were doing so that we could prove your innocence.

As far as I'm concerned your mining was completely legal, but the messiness of your mines nearly convinced me on multiple occasions that you were xraying. Your mines should be working for you, not against you.


Here's some general tips on how to fix that:
-Mine in straight lines: Avoid zig-zagging and taking sudden turns. If you happen to turn and immediately hit diamonds it will look very suspicious.
-Mine on a consistent level: Don't step up and down all over the place. If you hit something valuable because of a change in elevation it will look like you xrayed toward it.
-Avoid backfilling tunnels: Don't fill in areas that you already mined out, this is a common tactic used by xrayers to try and hide what they've done. Additionally, if you fill in a tunnel with stone or some other natural material we may not see it, which could be crucial in proving your innocence or guilt. Try to leave your mines untouched so that when we come to inspect them we can immediately see what's going on.

Thanks for the help Emaj7.

Here is my current plan. I am going to mine in one direction starting from my current base. I will always mine (insofar as I can remember, I do have add) on level 11. Any deviation will be by one block because I mined something and kept going and forgot to readjust. I will go straight until I run into gravel, or plausibly lava if I forgot to bring a bucket. I will only make sharp 90 degree turns, and there will be a clear reason why I made that turn. I plan to continue to set a home at the end of my strip mine. I will not use torches unless I am playing in an unusually bright room.

Does all of that seem copacetic?