The VPN blocking is a feature inside IW4MADMIN which is a server admin tool that alot of servers use. All the feature does though is kick you if your IP is detected as a VPN. It doesn't ban as far as I am aware, so you're fine there.
Most VPN's will be detected as a VPN though.
Thank you very much 
peak40 Try using a VPN, if it works with thr VPN on, then its probably a firewall problem.
I saw "no words" and almost didn't make this reply. Put a little bit of effort in...
How exactly are they broken? Can you show a video to demonstrate?
I know this sounds silly but can you try doing the following:
Get your stats to where you want them via the commands you mentioned above.
Edit a custom class (change a weapon or something).
Then join a server and play and wait for the server to swap to the next map.
Once the new map has loaded, wait about 20 seconds and then leave and check your stats. Make sure they are at what you would expect (maybe level 2 for example).
Quit the game.
Restart and check if stats how now saved.
If they have, it should stick from then 
GhostRider0125 Ohhhhhh - i get it, sorry I feel stupid now.
I'll see if we can investigate on our side.
Thanks for the reports - we are investigating on our side
What country did you all buy your steamdeck in?
We're investigating currently.
Hey - can any of you with the issue please email [email protected] with your discord username? If you could include the country (or state) that you're connecting from and any other info you're already tried in the email for us to read, this will help us alot
Please only do this if you're willing to share your screen via discord and do some tests to help us troubleshoot the issue and gather more data. None of our staff are facing the issue so it's proving difficult to troubleshoot.
Thanks!
What country did you all buy your steamdeck in?
We're investigating currently.
Nyneee Awesome stuff, that seems to be the feedback I'm getting elsewhere
To answer OP:
BO3 was one of the first games to heavily introduce Micro-Transactions and ATVI still make money from it to this day.
Plutonium does not want to carry the risk of being legally ordered to shut down by taking these too far and affecting ATVI's bottom line.
There are other smaller issues too but this is the big one, alot of the owners of Plutonium have careers that we can't risk losing just so people can play BO3.
We actually have plans to transform platform.plutonium.pw - do you have any professional design experience by any chance?
His account was accessed by multiple IP addresses known to have been used by a group stealing short Plutonium usernames to then sell to other people.
I'll send an email to the email address on the account from 2021, if your friend can respond to my email then i'll unban the account. Your friend should certainly change his password once unbanned and enable 2 factor Authentication.
Edit: Email sent, he has 48 hours to respond to the email. If we do not get a response, we will close this thread.
zucik Legend mate, glad we could help. I've emailed him back and unbanned the account.
WIFI Darth Maul Exactly mate.
Thank you man, we appreciate that
Account has been unbanned.
Your account was accessed from the same IP that multiple other accounts was accessed from which were spreading malware.
I highly suggest to change your password.
GH3 was more of a joke than anything else really. So if things break, then they break.
But I will tag Eldor to see if it's a quick fix for him.
I found a discussion on shotgun rank and Perma Perks... is there a way to tally up the days you play and then on the 5th day get the 5 tallys and blue eyes? Also is there a way to see my rank? I have asked a couple of people but they say it is "glitched" I wish you guys could add the option next to the name, that would be perfect.
No idea, sorry - most of the staff don't play Zombies, or BO2 for that matter.
Which Perma Perks are ingame?
See above.
I have read somewhere that MW3 will become part of Plutonium? Is that correct? and is there a release date?
It used to be our first mod but it never managed to build a playerbase, it will return I suggest checking the Announcements forum and reading the 2 progress update threads.
If I donate to the server do I get any perks?
You get a purple name on the forum and Discord, access to the VIP_Lounge and VIP_Memes channels on discord, I personally much prefer thew VIP_Lounge, much slower pace of conversation and average age in the channel tends to be higher than general_chat. They also get to join beta tests at times or see what we are working on earlier.
What do you guys prefer Black Ops 2 Zombies or BO3 Zombies?
BO2 but I never played BO3 Zombies, prefer BO1 Zombies overall.
Glad to hear you're enjoying the mod