You have a VAC ban on your account that's almost two years old. If you hacked once then what's to stop you from doing it again and getting caught now?
Black Ops 2 uses the VAC system for banning hackers and players who join modded lobby's. I just so happened to join a modded lobby and actively partake in the festivities the modder had to offer. As a direct result of that I got banned from Black Ops 2; Which in turn, wondrously gave me a VAC ban on my account.
Your initial account was tripped by SMAC for having a modification that activated sv_cheats when you joined the server. Simply leaving Blacks Ops 2 open while booting up TF2 doesn't cause this. It had to have been something else.
Honestly, it's an error on SMAC's part because I joined other servers with SMAC on it, after the incident, and I've never been banned since.
But the problem with this is that we have no way of knowing if that's actually true. Just because you didn't set off SMAC at one time doesn't suggest that you have never used a hack before when you set it off prior. SMAC is an accurate program that is trusted by many communities including ourselves because it's parameters for detection are tight. We have tested this program by trying to set it off without actually using cheats in the past and have been unsuccessful so far, so you can understand why we trust it and why we usually don't question it. Since this appeal has boiled down to a case where it's your word against the program's, I'm going to have to deny your appeal since there is no evidence to suggest that SMAC was incorrect in this case. I do however appreciate your polite attitude that you carried throughout the appeal, we don't see that often here.
Dammit! I was really hoping I would get unbanned for I could join my friends in one of your many lovely Skial servers. This is the reason why I made this ban appeal. At this point and time it seems there is nothing I can do to get unbanned due to your infallible trust in SMAC. But, nonetheless, thank you for your time.
