It is a common misconception that one will recieve an email notification upon a ban. Actually, chances are you will not recieve anything. To find out the length of the ban, you must contact Sony via email, and they will respond back in around two buisness days.
To find out the specific reasons behind the ban, you must call Sony to gain this information. For example, the email will tell you the length of the ban and the generic reason for it, but to find out details (such as if the ban was due to a communication infration, what exactly you said to warrent the ban), you will need to call them as they will not send this information to you via email.
The reason why they will not, is to prevent someone from being branded for life for something as simple as a slip of the tounge. We've all said things that we really didn't mean at the time, and people do deserve another chance in most cases.
A permaban is a serious punishment. It's only given out to the most dangerous of users, or to non-regional users that have proven themselves more troublesome than they are worth. I'm not suggesting you are either one, but I am thinking that your ban may not be as serious as you believe. You need to email Sony to find out the length, which I suspect will be much shorter than you believe.
As for someone pulling a favor with a mod to have you banned, a mod can not simply issue a ban. They must document an actual infraction, and then present it to others to judge it ban worthy or not. This in itself takes time, and it's very likely that the reason of the ban was due to an occurance that happened well before the activation of the ban. In a nutshell, chances are the ban is due to something that happened about a week before the ban began. A mod that shows themself unable to properly document a banable offence may not longer find themselves a mod. Sony is not in the buisness to lose customers, and they take baning a user very serious. As friendly as a mod may be with someone, if they wish to continue being a mod, they will not fulfill such favors.
Also, while many people will claim to be friends with a mod, the fact of it is that very few people could actually claim this. Mods are, by nature, seperate from the community.
So, as I said, you need to contact Sony to discover the length of the ban, and then simply serve your time. When you come back, choose to come back smarter, and to make sure that this never happeneds again.
We all make mistakes. *shrugs* We're human. It's our nature. Though it is up to you to learn from your mistake and to grow stronger from it. Even if you feel you've done nothing wrong, you can still learn from this and do what needs to be done to prevent this again. If that means staying away from that person, then that's what you need to do.
Do not come back angry. Do not feel as if you are a victom. Allow yourself to forgive everyone, even yourself, for this. When you come back, come back happy, pleasant, and determined to be such a great part of the community that they it will be very difficult for anyone to be able to ban you ever again.
If you allow yourself this, I promice you will come back to a much happier Home. I this may not mean much, but I am sorry that this had to happen to you for whatever reason. It did happen though, and you must deal with it.
You may feel you had no controll over the cause of the ban, and now that you are banned you probably feel like you've now no controll at all. This is farthest from the truth. You do have controll. You have the choice in to either rage against this and come back with a torch, or to accept it, learn, and grow, so when you come back, you come bearing gifts.
The paradox of being human is we are imperfect creatures built to strive toward perfection. Do not allow yourself to damn imperfection, but instead use it to become stronger. You can do this. I know you can.
But it's up to you.
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