We believe you are implying there was a user who was banned for making a report. That is not what happened.
A couple months ago, the individual who is now banned from our forums (person A) had notified us that a user (person B) was distributing illicit materials to other members of the Tower Unite community, through an unofficial Tower Unite related Discord server and on Steam.
We informed the individual (person A), that they should report these materials to Discord, Steam, and the appropriate law enforcement agencies, as that is where the material was being hosted and distributed. And that we cannot report for them as the materials were not posted or hosted on our Discord or our servers, nor was it sent to any of our staff.
We immediately took action against the user who was reported (person B) by banning them from our Discord server and working with the unofficial Discord server to also ban person B.
A few days ago, person A sent us a DM on our forums, posting edited versions (yet still illegal) of the illicit materials, which was then uploaded and hosted on our forum server. There was no new evidence provided that anything was being done inside of Tower Unite, only of the original events that transpired on an unofficial Discord and Steam.
As person A uploaded illicit materials to our forum servers, we took action immediately and reported it to the appropriate law enforcement agencies and banned person A for uploading and redistributing illegal content.
They were not permabanned for making a report. They were banned for uploading illegal content to our servers. Making a report should have been done without re-uploading illegal materials (a simple description would have been sufficient). Making a second report was also unnecessary as we had already taken action and informed them of the proper channels to report to law enforcement agencies through Discord (where the original incident took place).
These illicit materials should not have been distributed, and should not have been sent to us, they should have only been sent to law enforcement.
In the future, please only make reports to us without uploading illegal materials. We only need descriptions. Illegal materials need to be only sent to law enforcement, not us. We don’t need to see it. We take these matters seriously and we take action on what we can within our game and what is hosted on our servers.