Consequences for abuse

In RuneScape, a ban is a disabling of a player's access to their account. There are two types of ban: forum bans and game bans. Bans can be either temporary or permanent, depending on the player's offense history and the severity of the offence.

Forum bans
Bans from the forums are for essentially similar reasons to those in-game; however, they also include flaming and spamming (while spamming in-game is in offence, many players do not realise thisand it often goes unreported.)