I have heard from word of mouth that when someone gets banned for the first time it is for 2 months, then the second ban is for longer and the third ban is permanent. Is this true? also when someone is banned for the third time do they get IP banned? 
IP ban doesn’t really work with most residential internet connections, just reboot the router and have a fresh up address. Like I guess eventually a person could get enough IP bans to get a whole town banned.
Like in the early days of the Internet the ip addresses would be in the same range, but I know for my particular ISP each new IP is from a different range, like the first number is different.
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Anecdotally there is no structure, from a third-party observer’s perspective. Zero-Tolerance Policy violations are usually a permanent ban on first offense, but I’ve seen these “irreversible bans” reversed too (no details provided other than an “appeal accepted” template, said banned user was actually a helpful contributor to the VRChat community and a friend of mine, but bopped for VRC+ prints in a public space).
The duration seems to generally depend on the context of offense, and repeat offenses may be 1 or 3 day bans several times in a row in the same week or two. The first offense could be a week, it could be a day, it could be 3 days (an anecdote). E.g. uploading a public “crasher” avatar is often a permanent ban no matter what, from what I’ve seen (the user becomes unsearchable in search while permabanned and a permaban always deranks an user’s trust rank, e.g. from trusted user to known user, or from new user/user to visitor, immediately until said permaban is lifted).
I have no experience to talk about suspending repeat offenders under the DMCA.
There is no public official information from VRChat other than the Zero-Tolerance Policy from the Community Guidelines for ban structure.
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I’m also noting before mid-2025 the ban structure used to be a lot more observable, as something as simple as having one public avatar removed by moderation action often took down everything public from the user, including the user’s profile picture (changed to VRChat Robot), bio (until unbanned), and all other public avatars and this practice was common place. This seems to be rarely the case anymore, and content removals seem to be more targeted now and profile bios no longer seem to disappear for the duration of the ban.
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