Re: Ban appeal
Yes, I found diamonds, and probably a few more than would be expected - all that shows is that in a game of random probabilities I got got lucky and won more than usual. However, you're not a Las Vegas casino, and kicking a gambler out and robbing them of their winnings because you don't like that they won a little too much at roulette isn't a viable alternative. This "evidence" amounts to your "feels" and has perfectly rational explanations - but only in my defence, as the prosecution has nothing but rampant speculation that doesn't even amount to circumstantial evidence.
I was kicked just as I found a cache of diamonds under a lake of lava - if your mods were watching me that closely they'd have seen my primary concern was cutting a path through that lake of lava, since it was on the boundary of my claim and I'd invested a lot of effort in cutting a path along my border. It was the last section of border I was completing and I'd had a good run as this was the only obstacle I'd found.
Kingu stated, "you tended to always look around and head in one specific direction, ...", of course I did --- it's called orienting - when I'm not quite certain of which way I'm headed, or if my mouse or game has frozen and I've been shaking the mouse in an effort to unlock it, or if I've had F3 activated and the screen is so full of chat I can't actually see where I'm headed then of course I need to look left and right, as well as up and down, in order to see wtf is my next move.
Mikhaila666 stated, "They have logs of all the blocks you mine, and can see how many times you mined diamonds.", fine .. then you'll agree that Jingu's claim that, "I've also looked over the logs and it shows 11 pages of you breaking diamond ore in 24 hours", is completely without merit. I hadn't been on the server for 24 hours. As I stated I'd logged in the day before for just a few minutes, and I'd been playing - on and off - for about five hours, half an hour looking for a site to build, a few too many in-game days plotting out my claim on the border of the protected zone and the zero meridian ... since it was a convenient number (even then I got it wrong - it was supposed to be 75*80 squares but I managed to make it 76*79), then I spent the next hour building a house, harvesting seed and building a farm. I then dug a staircase to my border, and with a few right turns headed for the floor and striking no obstacles other than a small lake. Once I hit the floor level I excavated a small room, dropped in three boxes (crafting table, furnace, and chest) then headed back to the surface for some mining and exploration. Only then did I start mining seriously, and in the manner outlined above (along the borders, work around lava, digging branches, working coal seams, etc.) ... hardly the 24 hours of 'hard-core' diamond mining Kingu suggested.
Finally: I'm not "Bart Simpson yelling 'wasn't me'", I'm not ten years old, I'm not male, I'm not yellow, and I'm not yelling - although I'm more than a little angry that I have been accused of doing something I haven't done and that I have to prove that I haven't done something that is unprovable. Until this farrago blew up I wasn't even aware that it was possible to 'look though walls' in the manner you've suggested I've been doing. I'm a 50-something year old woman working in IT, but at the 'soft end' of the industry, a volunteer teaching pensioners how to use and get online with the laptops and tablets that their children and grandchildren gave them so that they don't have to visit so often. I don't have the time or inclination to use hacks or scripts to cheat at a game, and cheating at an online game just isn't the sort of thing I do. My major concern in my life right now is caring for my terminally ill mother and I play a little minecraft and a few other games in my downtime - it's an easy game to pause and walk away from if I need to be doing something else. And walk away is something I'm prepared to do, as I've spent more time explaining my gameplay than I have actually spent playing. So here's my suggestion; either stop this nonsense and unban me, or delete my claim and my goodies and perma-ban me because I'm totally over this - I came to lolnet to play (and had been playing on Pluto for 18 months - Neptune just six hours), not to be messed around by a few kids that don't understand that someone doesn't need to cheat to find diamonds or anything else in this game.
