Quote Originally Posted by QT_Melon View Post
If the reports are not valid, yes. They can ban your account. If the reports are actually valid. No

A mass report doesn't ban you from the game, an investigation on the allegation and verifying the rules were indeed broken, will. A GM can act on 1 report and ban you if you broke said rules, a GM can also act on 500 reports and ban you if determined you broke the rules.

A GM cannot act on 500 reports or more if you didn't break the rules.

A GM CAN act on the people reporting just to report because THEY broke the rules on how to use the report system to target someone who did not break the rules. And they have acted on it as well.
While I don't condone the enormous drama people in the forum has built around this, the thing about mass reports or, more specifically, targeted mass reports, is that they are more successful than you give them credit for. And the reason they can be successful comes from two factors: the search the reporters perform on your history and the information that the GM gets a hand on.

On the first, when a mob is determined to get you banned, they will dig ANY kind of dirt they can get their hands on and not just one tiny mod in the screen. They can look for anything that can get you banned (in this thread's case, they could simply take many of the clips Pyro lets out a slur or trashes his twitch chat) and, while people can try to hide as much as possible, they're not flawless and, in a streamers case, you are liable to get mistakes exposed in plain sight. On the second, the mob can not only dig that information but they can also feed it to the GMs in a way that misconstrues the context and gives a whole different picture than what it really is.

And this will happen with any online game, regardless of community.