That was my case. The first time I got out of here (thanks to the patch when Lucas&co came out), I was playing REALLY carefully, not switching names, not even taunting and I'm never going in Glory mode because I think there is no challenge with spammers and haters.
But even like that, one week later I was here again, so I stopped playing like I was doing since my last post here, and now I'm only playing with my girlfriend, we found each other in fun/glory modes, we don't have any problems, even if we taunt and target or switch our names. I'm quite sure t
Right now I'm out the smash hell, but I noticed something strange. First off, I only join full rooms (3 players already ready to fight) or either 3-4 empty rooms in a row. If I actually wait in the latter, I can easily end up wait 5 straight minutes without anyone joining. I tought this may be caused by not so much players joining the online mode, but aside from the fact that we're talking about smash, I find odd that NO ONE join the room.
Same thing can happen when, after a fight, someone leaves while the other 3 players (including me) wait for another one. Many times no one shows up and I have to leave the room to join another one.
Another thing that I noticed is that, even if I'm out the ban lands, I keep fighting same people anyway. For example, I keep playing with a girl from switzerland named Nyanyan (nametag Nyan), which happen to be good at the game and with a decent connection, so I remember her. Now, in the last 3 days, even by randomly joining rooms, I met her, like, 6 times. And the same happens with other players, which I hardly recall names mostly because awful matches (lag, spamming, and so on).
I maybe end up paired with those guys because they're closer to my location but come on, what are the odds on meeting again the same players, from week to week (remember, last time I was out the smash hell was before 25th july), in a game with so many players like smash.
I'm starting to think that this is not a proper ban, but it can be really some kind of glitch/bug in the matchmaking servers, like different "levels" of servers.
But again, right now I'm playing avoiding taunting completely, I've removed any tag (aside the one I actually use) and even the message from my profile. I'm not blocking or reporting anyone, and I'm not even playing so much. If I end in the smash limbo again, I'll just call the customer support to have some official words on what the hell I'm supposed to do.