Consequences for abuse

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 offence history (counted by "Black marks") and the severity of the offence.

Black marks
Black marks are used by Jagex to track the offences of a player. When a certain number is reached, the player can be muted or permanently banned. Players may track their number of black marks on their account by clicking "Appeal an Offence/Ban" in the account recovery section of the website, though you cannot appeal a Legacy punishment..

Game bans
Game bans restrict players from access to their accounts. There was once an area called The Black Hole in the Dwarven Mine area of RuneScape Classic where banned players were sent for an indefinite amount of time. However, this was later removed. If the player appeals their ban, it may be accepted, either restoring the account completely or with a permanent mute. Some people may say that they weren't in charge of there account when it happened then get it locked then type there recovery questions in and get there account completely restored with the help of the Recover a Locked Account page.





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 realize this and it often goes unreported). If a player is muted or banned from the game, they are also automatically banned from the forums.