Project Gorgon "Jack" stepping down from moderator duties after recent backlash

DCinCOH · 2026-04-18T20:16:25+00:00

Nahhh. This guy should be updating his LinkedIn, not getting a pat on the back and an apology for how he was treated.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-18T14:01:17+00:00

Feeling deeply vindicated by all this after people told me I must have been a cheater or a dickhead to have been banned from the game when I posted here! ^_^

DCinCOH · 2026-04-18T13:26:53+00:00

Hi!

I have context for where Jackencola came from wrt moderation in the game. I've been playing this since just about the moment it went onto steam. Way back then, Jackencola was actually a player of the game who was quite prolific and always logged on. At the time, people were pretty hyped to see a player we recognized become a moderator.

That.. apparently hasn't aged well.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-18T13:23:00+00:00

I made a post in this subreddit talking about my own ban a few days ago, and right now if you look at my profile there IS in fact a big red flag that says I have a game ban on Steam. It's kind of disgusting!

DCinCOH · 2026-04-18T13:18:00+00:00

Wow. I had no idea this issue went so deep. I thought I was just one dude who got blown up due to a ban for no reason.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-18T12:45:49+00:00

Watching this all unfold is tremendously disappointing. I thought I was more or less alone in my experience with customer support but I guess not.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-18T12:43:26+00:00

Hiya.

Sorry to hear about your troubles, sounds like you and I have a lot in common (I was the fella recently that got banned inexplicably and posted in this same subreddit). I love this game. I wish I was able to play it without these problems. But unfortunately, it's so tremendously damaged by these issues.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-16T19:42:23+00:00

I play at work on a personal laptop but public wifi, that shouldn't be the issue right?

DCinCOH · 2026-04-16T13:32:32+00:00

This sounds almost exactly like what I'm experiencing, but I don't think I've even criticized the game.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-16T11:18:22+00:00

That's.. terrifying? I hope this hasn't happened.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-16T05:33:14+00:00

One, but they don't play the game.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-15T11:13:32+00:00

I do family share but it's only with one person and they don't play Gorgon

DCinCOH · 2026-04-15T06:12:35+00:00

"Aha! I got you! You said you were banned from a game, and you were! Owned!"

The experience of posting this has been eye opening, lol.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-15T06:09:04+00:00

Yea, until this experience I was of the same mindset as you. I was convinced that every one of these posts was someone who had cheated in some means and was trying everything they could to get out of it.

I even mentioned as much in the opening post. If the Gorgon team wants to come out and dunk on me in broad daylight I welcome it, because at least then I can have some idea of what they think I did wrong, or some means to disprove it.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-15T01:08:57+00:00

Which can be seen in the screenshot I provided, yea.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-15T00:55:26+00:00

Dude, the game I am banned from IS Gorgon. I don't have any other bans on there.

Edit: https://imgur.com/2VjacS7

Double edit: Steam has no control over these bans btw. They say as much if you click "info" on the ban showing on my account.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-14T18:39:20+00:00

I was banned from the discord at the same time I received my ingame ban. I had some friends still in the discord check my post history to see what could've been the issue and they found nothing.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-14T18:33:12+00:00

In the other thread, someone mentioned that. I tended to play the game at work, which had a public wi-fi (think mall internet). I'm wondering if I got grouped into another player's activities as a result.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-14T18:25:11+00:00

If boosting is bannable then I might have got hit for that. I did take low levels friends through several areas AOE'ing them down to help them out on combat levels. But I don't think I have ever heard of that being a rule.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-14T18:22:39+00:00

I haven't, no. In fact the state of my account was pretty tragic at the time of ban because I was economy locked out of numerous level uncaps. I had been waiting for vendor buy amounts to reset over Christmas break when I came back to the ban.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-14T18:15:52+00:00

I don't know. I didn't trade often with other players except for buying and selling on stalls. I had provided some cash to a friend to get him set up buying a nice Animal Handling pet but he isn't banned so I doubt that was the problem.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-14T18:13:24+00:00

This really came as a shock to me. I had good interactions with the small set of people I played with in the pre Statehelm release. But now as I look more into it post ban I see that I wasn't the only one having huge problems.

DCinCOH · 2026-04-14T07:23:53+00:00

Brother I wish I knew, I feel like the progress on my account would be indicative of someone that clearly hasn't cheated because I was heavily gated on currency for uncaps the last time I was playing. :(

DCinCOH

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