I guess I’ve pretty much lost hope in regaining access to my account for the foreseeable future.  I’ve been locked out and ignored with no explanation at all for a year and a half, despite attempting to contact Teppy through the website’s Contact form, email, ATITD email, this forum, Reddit, snail mail, etc.

I had never been warned or accused of any transgressive conduct over my several years as a member of the community.  If this is a disciplinary story akin to that of SpliffBeanz, then it is a showcase of how an established player with a clean record is treated in light of a first alleged offense (apparently-indefinite ban upon suspicion, with no communication or process for correcting false suppositions of wrongdoing).

The more sinister possibility is that I was just straight up banned for being a withdrawal liability; my account does have some hundreds of BTM from winnings stored on it.  This “executive decision” wouldn’t best explain the timeline surrounding the lock, but the delay might be accounted for by Teppy’s intermittent hiatuses.  I really wanted to offer the benefit of the doubt here, as I’d never seen Teppy act unethically in the past, and while perhaps it’s still possible that everything is just a misunderstanding, the passage of time erodes trust.  Maybe this is nothing more than another horror story about centralized control, whose moral is the reminder for us to demand that our game currencies and assets live on a blockchain.