This is the official Hostbot rules. This thread tells you how long you should be banned for and the list of bannable offenses.
^Map Hacking: 2 months - Permanent
Admin Abuse: 2-12 days
Rudeness: 1 hour - 2 days
Abusing Votekick: 1 hour - 3 days
Admin impersonation: 1 hour - 24 hours
-Team Killing: 10 hours - 3 days
Using !drop command instantly when someone is lagging. Must give time for the person lagging to stop. 8 hours - 3 days
(Command removed use !synclimit 9999999 .However, please give the lagger a chance to recover. If he doesn't after a while use that command.)
Kicking a person who is downloading in the lobby.: 1 hour - 1 day
(If you don't want to play with a person downloading swap him to another team (Admins only) or leave)
-Team Item destroying/Team Item Wielding without permission.: 8 hours - 3 days
^Bug Abuse: 18 days - permanent
^Hacking of any sort: Permanent
-Selling your Items Intentionally and wanting to lose money. 10 hours - 3 days
-Intentionally not buying hero and refusing to use the money to aid ally, just keeping it. 8 hours - 3 days
*Abusing the elo system
-FTD Mode - Building Tower Middle: 8 hours - 3 days
*Abusing elo system:
1) Playing with an account (or playing on) which <0 elo on the same ip address as the main in order to gain more elo for the main.
*Please note that our rule is that a person will be punished even if/her brother is causing the rule break.
(These rules can be modified at any time without any notice in written form)
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New policy for admin abusers.
I have designed a two strike/four strike policy. The two strike policy relates to the admin abuse, the second is in game related abuse.
Admin Abuse (2 strikes)
Unbanning a banned person without permission (permission can be gained from the forum) (You are allowed to unban if you are the person who banned the person) 1 strike
Banning without reason/Banning outside rulebook 1 strike
In-game Related (4 strikes)
"-" = 2 strikes
"^" = 4 strikes
The math
1 in-game related + 1 admin abuse related = removed forever
Note: The ban times still apply for admin.