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Somebody should create a thread of all or the best "family & friend" banned excuses. Doubt any will top this one though: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2544574.msg46576373#msg46576373

Hello! I do not understand what's going on with a friend's account.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1983411
He recently gave up some money to buy copper. and now you lock him
This morning he came in and received a message like this: " Sorry duythan1988, you are banned from posting or sending personal messages on this forum.
You have been banned by a forum moderator. You may appeal here: banappeals-w6pquw43@theymos.e4ward.com "
I know he's just a hunter, but that does not mean he's banned. he needs a reason. please !

“Friend”

You broke a rule, you are a spaz for not reading the rules. Odds on it was for copy pasting.

Bye

Is this another "friend":


Seems you have a lot of "friends" here:

You are a fool in thinking. me and him are husband and wife. We can only use one account. If we use two accounts, is it wrong when we set the username the same? I admit the coppy-paste accusations. But those who are saying I use multiple accounts are stupid

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Also your "husband" lists himself on his face book as "female" and "single"  ::)

https://i.imgur.com/0ua1qKW.png


Archived: https://archive.fo/mCOg7

Are you saying he is cheating bounties with a fake identity ?

Is he pretending to be a young female that so more guys follow him on twitter and facebook?

https://i.imgur.com/n33so9S.png

This is your husband right ?

Yes, I bought a twitter account but also bought the site it belonged to at the same time I don't think I have ever used it since I did.
Ask any questions about MeFy and I will answer if I cant I will get the answer from the founders. I cannot be much fairer than that
My email and password changes about every couple of months that is called a security protocol.

I think we both know where this rabbit-hole goes, but before venturing further, could you even begin to explain what you mean by saying that the skype account previously associated with the lowbander80 account "was opened by a man did some business with years ago".
Why would you even be wearing someone else's skype handle?

Half of our office had their accounts on the forum. No one used them to spam, but in two days they all got banned from a moderator. A few people wrote an appeal to the specified email, but no answer yet. Why it happened and what to do?

hi please unban my account i didnt do anything wrong
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1734252

Hello. my husband had a problem. he was blocked on the forum. He is a very good person. He devoted a lot of time to this forum. He regrets and admits his mistake. And really wants to return the account to the whitelist. Help please him. What should I do to return?
usermane profit_online . https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=994829

Hello.
Last week my wife's account (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1115064) was banned:

My brother account is banned for posting. Can you please check what would be the next steps to release the ban?

My sister account is prohibited I've tried to appeal to moderator and tried a few steps but still can not and the account was banned permanently.
She cried all day to start from scratch, if there is any suggestion and another way to reopen my account please someone kindly help me.

My 70 year old father was banned form the forum.  I don't think he plagiarized as he does not do signatures.

I ain't happy to post this from a new account..
i know after sometime i will be banned again from this account also after posting this thread..
but i will not be quiet and tolerate this injustice of mods whoever did this..
if you are son of a single father please let me know why you ban me " https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=448266 "

<snip>  I in mourning the second day. The ban reason frivolous, but I agree that I have done wrong, but there was it on ignorance, <snip> It is also worth telling that this account is very old and expensive to me, it to me as the second son. (My child is 1 year old and 1 month). In the future, I want him to teach all that I am able to do itself and to tell about cryptocurrencies <snip>  I would like to continue the further travel on a forum and to keep this account till an old age, to brag to children, to acquaintances and relatives that they saw what I have achieved. Really one message foolishly copied from the website can cross out all this at one stroke? Dear Administrator, please, give me chance. Yours faithfully, kyxap

Because i am a translator and i really need my old account so i am posting this and i promise to not do any of this kind of work in future.

do not have other accounts, did not violate the rules of the forum, do not write spam, do not write plagiarism, support crypto campaigns, do not have a red trust.

My account is banned, please tell me what mistakes I made.
I think I work as usual,
account name: zakariajaki
rank full member

I bought the account 1 week ago, as long as I use it I never copy and paste other people's posts.
I only made 2 posts per day

previous users who have done this. can it still be fixed sir?

Clear. Thank you. Only we are relatives and live in the same house. What criteria will be determined? How do you want? If he taught me how and what to write, then it is quite possible that our style of bounty hunting coincides a bit. How will someone decide if this is one person or not? Thank you

My account was banned , can anyone please help me out with why I was banned.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action
Sorry innocent_one, you are banned from posting or sending personal messages on this forum.
You have been banned by a forum moderator. You may appeal here: banappeals-w6pquw43@theymos.e4ward.com .

When I login to my account a while ago there is a message saying.
"Sorry iammichael, you are banned from posting or sending personal messages on this forum

Dear Sir ,
So proud to be a member of ur great forum
But when I try to login today I get that message
<snip>

Hello! I was banned on the forum. The reasons ~~~~~

This account is not mine even though I have access to it.

Please i'm talking with admins because i have heard good about them.
I have recently invested in bitcoin and then i came to know about signature campaigns then i have a bought 1 account in which i was a new person. Believe me I don't know about these things. Please sort out my problem as soon as possible I'm really tens.
So if you can sort out my problem please help me.

You bought a hacked account. I think you've bought many more as well. What other ones have you had banned?

The user for some time investigated his acc, and right now I write on his behalf:

In the period from January 2018 to July 2018, my account was hacked,
I'm sure you can check it with logs, the password has changed - the activity has changed etc /
https://bitcointalk.org/seclog.php doesn't have such an old story, maybe you know where to look

I managed to restore access to it in July, through the mail, and I saw that the scammers used it under bounty
but apparently also resorted to plagiarism, in which you caught this acc
I still ask the admins to check again, maybe you have other tools to confirm my words and restore the acc ..

Admins, dear, I beg you to forgive me, for me it is very important!
There were New Year's holidays, I was not sober, I did not realize what I had done!

I received a PM today with a typical excuse:
I hear the explanation of what I bolded above a lot.  Transaction fees are pretty damn low, so there's really no reason why funds should be pooled--and given that blockchain transactions are the only good way to prove accounts are connected, people shouldn't be doing this.

I'm hardly swayed by this picture, either.  It shows a bunch of shitposters sitting around a shitposting table in a shitposting farm.  They deserve negative trust just for that.  Give me a fucking break.  Guaranteed the women here don't care about bitcoin in the least.  They got recruited to spam like suicide bombers get recruited by ISIS.

<snip>
I had sold my MikeMark account for my mom medical expenses to one person.
<snip>

<snip>
I was in extreme anger , because I had lost my account and my money need for my medical expenses.
<snip>

The previous messages posted here where by the seller of the account, i am the buyer that was scammed.

I'm now completely confused as to what's going on here, and I did read the imgur (mostly gibberish) chat link.

My ADD is flaring up and I've yet to finish my coffee.  Can someone give me their tl;dr opinion on this?  LoyceV? xtraelv?  I'm having a hard time making heads or tails of this.

I think I analysed the situation pretty accurately. I spotted a "husband and wife" merely by their posting habits and without any other information at all. What are the chances of that? But we all know that's just an idiotic bullshit excuse you've come out with. You are blatant alt accounts just shitposting one after the other for money.

Also, if you're going to come after people for spelling things wrong then you should make sure you get things right. It's 'moron' not moran. And besides, I like to mock the shitposters here and their illiteracy, hence why I have put your garbled rubbish in my person text and the "bitcoib is my successful" is a quote of another shitposter that I found funny.


Lol. You talk about immaturity yet come out with talk about curses? You're just another backwards shitposter who doesn't deserve to be here.

Need to say that nikki4 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=79027)'s messages were written by a male in Russian language.

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Also nikki4 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=79027) and his 'husband' KimmyF (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=197177) have the same dates of last activity:
Last Active: Today at 12:03:52 AM [archive (http://archive.li/piQxQ)]
Last Active: Today at 12:04:14 AM [archive (http://archive.li/ogbw9)]

Don't forget the time someone had their whole entire "office" accounts banned: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1912475.0

Яcнo. Cпacибo. Toлькo мы poдcтвeнники и живeм в oднoм дoмe. Пo кaким кpитepиям бyдyт oпpeдeлять? Кaк зaxoчeтcя? Ecли oн мeня yчил кaк и чтo пиcaть, тo впoлнe вoзмoжнo, нaш cтиль вeдeния бayнти нeмнoгo coвпaдaeт. Кaк ктo-тo peшит, этo oдин чeлoвeк или нeт? Cпacибo.

Clear. Thank you. Only we are relatives and live in the same house. What criteria will be determined? How do you want? If he taught me how and what to write, then it is quite possible that our style of bounty hunting coincides a bit. How will someone decide if this is one person or not? Thank you

I think I analysed the situation pretty accurately. I spotted a "husband and wife" merely by their posting habits and without any other information at all. What are the chances of that? But we all know that's just an idiotic bullshit excuse you've come out with. You are blatant alt accounts just shitposting one after the other for money.

Also, if you're going to come after people for spelling things wrong then you should make sure you get things right. It's 'moron' not moran. And besides, I like to mock the shitposters here and their illiteracy, hence why I have put your garbled rubbish in my person text and the "bitcoib is my successful" is a quote of another shitposter that I found funny.

And not that we needed to prove that it was bullshit, but:

What the fuck are you talking about ? I'm the man in the relationship. My partner is the wife, you ignorant homophobe. "Her" is an inside joke.

I bet you actually believed I typed that on a 486 too, huh ?

I'm from Holland  and can think of some stuff that is already exported a lot & i can get on every corner, so yes: great idea but am still looking to discuss about whats needed to get more sites & b&m stores accepting eac. Merchandise is key, Eartazaar is great but just 1 site, feel we need more

"favours" is my younger brother's account, we both live in in the same house, and sometimes use each others' accounts. He is 15, I am 19.

And thank you for showing me the ID thing, I need to have a chat with him about that. I suspect he was trying to get into one of my exchange accounts for something that I did to him, personal stuff, but mainly petty brother-sister feuds.

This is my account, favours belongs to my brother. I can prove this to anyone who is willing to Skype me. I have never scammed a single person, I have only helped them earn money. You may not believe me not, but time will tell how legitimate I am. I only wanted to have fun, make some money, and get a good rep here - looks like just because my brother and I share the same WiFi network, my whole rep has gone to shit. Come back here in a year and see where I am on this forum. You'll be surprised.

My brother used my computer seems to be the most popular. It's like that dog ate my homework excuse.

Don't forget the time someone had their whole entire "office" accounts banned: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1912475.0

This excuse and The Pharmacist's reaction is of one of the best: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2544574.msg44608747#msg44608747

This excuse and The Pharmacist's reaction is of one of the best: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2544574.msg44608747#msg44608747

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Jesus Christ. I've been saying it's not going to be long before the only people posting here are shitposting families and their half a dozen alt accounts, but I can't believe that they actually took a picture of their operation. I never thought I'd see this. I think you're wrong about their excuses though. What I think likely actually happens in the vast majority of cases is that there will be one 'ring-leader,' 'boss' or family member etc that is the main person behind recruiting people to the group. He will tell his friends, family, co-workers, schoolmates that they can earn good money just by posting on a forum. These newbies obviously don't know how to work a bitcoin wallet nor care to learn so the ringleader of the spammer group will be in charge of all the wallets for the accounts. He obviously then has a lot of different addresses with money in so he will send them all to one address and then to the exchange or something like that. He will take his cut minus fees then pay them in their local cash. The sad thing is that picture will likely just be a small operation here. I'm sure there are farms or sweatshops with double/treble the amount in that picture. I don't think it's crazy to imagine that there will be entire offices set up like this in the near future if they haven't already. I mean, one guy even claimed that his entire office's accounts were banned (though that was like just a one man job and the bullshit excuse he came out with). As long as you can continue to get paid here for doing nothing but churning out a sentence or two then this is only going to get worse. Shit can't continue.

I can't believe that they actually took a picture of their operation. I never thought I'd see this.

Admins, dear, I beg you to forgive me, for me it is very important!
There were New Year's holidays, I was not sober, I did not realize what I had done!

It was only once (and he probably originally wanted to quote and got lost).
User SR MEMBER with a neutral trust, all posts were written on the topic, is it a permanent ban?
Is it impossible to somehow fix and limit it to a temporary bath?

~ another proof of plagiarism ~

The user for some time investigated his acc, and right now I write on his behalf:

In the period from January 2018 to July 2018, my account was hacked,
I'm sure you can check it with logs, the password has changed - the activity has changed etc /
https://bitcointalk.org/seclog.php doesn't have such an old story, maybe you know where to look

I managed to restore access to it in July, through the mail, and I saw that the scammers used it under bounty
but apparently also resorted to plagiarism, in which you caught this acc
I still ask the admins to check again, maybe you have other tools to confirm my words and restore the acc ..

My sister account is prohibited I've tried to appeal to moderator and tried a few steps but still can not and the account was banned permanently.
She cried all day to start from scratch, if there is any suggestion and another way to reopen my account please someone kindly help me.

I do not know. We have an office and maybe a single all access to the Internet. Maybe because of this? The robot determines how one computer and blocks. Spam was not sure. Just talked yet work.

Sir yes I did that but my English is not good and I felt ashamed of that because my brother watched my post and I wanted to show of to him and I copied word to word of others post now I realize that I had done a very terrible mistake and I won't do it again.

The all above names are my cousins. We all are different individual carrying our individual identity, if our identity is required, we can even upload to prove.

Sorry sir that was not mine. That was my brother's account. i dont know he also violate the rules. sorry for that. -snip-

It was a coincidence that the post matched but I still accepted my mistake. My post wasn't spammy at any cost. And I also don't have a single reason for copy pasting. -snip-

Sir why are you not understanding my problem. Bitcoin is the only support of my finencial problem

Well, we are all human beings. and should help each other. We have a big family and he found a job on the forum. Why are you so angry ??

I remember that one.  It's sad, but part of me thinks situations like that really do exist in poor countries where bitcointalk's potential for providing a living wage spreads like wildfire through word of mouth. 

Hello! I was banned on the forum. The reasons ~~~~~

This account is not mine even though I have access to it.

Hah this is a great thread.  Part of me feels bad for those indonesian and phillipino spammers.  I know they don't have many other options out there.  They will have to work in a sweatshop making nike shoes or slaving away 14 hours a day making apple products.

I have many coins in my wallet, most of them are from scam projects.

Hah this is a great thread.  Part of me feels bad for those indonesian and phillipino spammers.  I know they don't have many other options out there.  They will have to work in a sweatshop making nike shoes or slaving away 14 hours a day making apple products.

I would imagine Nike and Apple have much higher standards. I doubt they would allow their employees to take a shit on the factory floor.

Good afternoon.My name on this forum Perka
I write to you because of a ban,and the prohibition to write messages to the forum.
I work in bounty programs and the money that I earn on bauti I invest in the fact that children who can not go to competitions or buy equipment ,could go in for sports.
I did a lot of work on this account and spent a lot of time.Every time I check on the uniqueness of the posts that do.And the last time didn't check and put the text of his friend.For this I received a warning.But the field that immediately followed the ban.

Hello Guys,

Its real @rajurathod18 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1514206) here, Last week have gone very bad for me I lost my mobile in train some one took advantage of rush and stole my phone. Today I saw my Bitcointalk forum account got notification like this  Sorry rajurathod18, you are banned from posting or sending personal messages on this forum.

Hello,
To whom it may concern...

I am here posting to help my friend who had his account banned. He cannot post anymore that is why he ask me to do it. I don't know what to do also that is why i am posting here with same concern.

His url is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1817678
he told me that he was banned due to double sending of a post last July 12, and that time, he was experiencing an internet problem, so when time that he send his post he taught it didn't pursued that is why he send it again, without him knowing that the first one pursued.

Sir, please, kindly give him another chance,  unbanned his account please for him to continue his posting. Kindly check his account please and consider. Thank You!


A concern friend here

I hope it Global Moderators and Administrators will read. I in mourning the second day. The ban reason frivolous, but I agree that I have done wrong, but there was it on ignorance, I was absolutely inexperienced at that moment. I know, ignorance doesn't exempt from liability, but I with all the heart and heart hope for amnesty.
My history, for moderators and admin.
Hello. Sorry, that I distract your attention to such trifles for you. My account https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=365672 has been banned at night. How it was for copypaste https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg38331635#msg38331635. However, it is worth explaining what at that time I didn't know at all, what is it and only I wanted to convey this information from the official site to users. I only knew that it is impossible to copy someone else's messages at a forum and to issue them for the and was never engaged in similar. Also It should be noted that the case copy and paste in my history has happened once and has been made already for a long time (on February 21 this year). If you go deep into studying of my account, then according to it it is visible that I have changed the main email to kyxap999999@gmail.com, before there was kyxap94@gmail.com. It is connected with the fact that my old email has been lost because of the SMS of authentication, my old sim card has been deactivated by my mother and I haven't managed to restore it on the name. In general, initially, my posts at a forum had no semantic loading and I even entered a skirmish with users (generally with one aggressor). And my account wasn't used, there were long idle times. Somehow I have reached full member, but to me it is absolute didn't speak about anything, I didn't know why in general this forum is necessary. Only later time, I have learned about BitSend coin, it appears, they had peculiar aidrop as it has appeared to take part, Sr.Member minimum is necessary. After this information which has got to me on arms I have begun to learn actively a forum and continued to write weak quality of the message (because of what they were even deleted by moderators) and I was already Sr.member, but in fact I didn't understand even cryptocurrency, I was on knowledge as Jr.Member. And at that moment I have made that ill-fated copypast. As you see I always quietly I communicate at a forum and I don't want to be engaged in the evil in a type of copypast at all. It was my unique and gross blunder. As for the guy who has noticed it, It should be noted that he works very qualitatively https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=993438, however can never know each certain user and his life under what circumstances there was a mistake and other. He just hunts merit here it here in the way. It is also worth telling that this account is very old and expensive to me, it to me as the second son. (My child is 1 year old and 1 month). In the future, I want him to teach all that I am able to do itself and to tell about cryptocurrencies because behind them the future and bitcointalk are the most informative forum in this plan and will remain it, hardly weak competitors will be able to put serious pressure upon him. Also I want to note that I am not engaged forbidden at a forum and I deceive nobody. Sometimes users with red trust continue communication at a forum and aren't banned, it is a lot of such. And I because of an old mistake by inexperience have lost now the only account which to present measures worth its weight in gold and I have begun to appreciate it only recently.
If you can, please consider this case in more detail and if perhaps with the human point of view. I would like to continue the further travel on a forum and to keep this account till an old age, to brag to children, to acquaintances and relatives that they saw what I have achieved. Really one message foolishly copied from the website can cross out all this at one stroke? Dear Administrator, please, give me chance. Yours faithfully, kyxap

sir trust me i have only one account and now i am using my brother account. i have never expect just like problem in my previous experienced with this best forum.

A friend of mine,who is a jr. member here was banned few hours ago.I am very new here and it is taking quite a lot of time to make the sense of forum. He was the one I looked up to and now he is banned.Also,there was no reason given for ban.Can you specify the reason for the ban because this is very confusing situation even if its his fault!

I realy didnt!! Why should i send it, i even dont know what i does!! What is phising mail?

Greetz

Everything is much more prosaic. I just did not relogin. I think you yourself have understood perfectly. The last father was at the computer, and when I started using, I didn’t leave his account. This is evident from the fact that the post was immediately deleted and a new one was written, exactly the same, but from my account. This is also visible on the timeline.

to be honest, I didn't steal anything from anyone, just copied the text from the site

marlboroza!!!
Hello! I have a great, human request to you please remove our negative trust, if it is possible! I can provide with proofs of a copy of my and my spouse's documents if you need to be clearer that our accounts are two different people! Thanks for understanding!

I would imagine Nike and Apple have much higher standards. I doubt they would allow their employees to take a shit on the factory floor.

'I was just drunk, forgive me'

That one actually works from time to time, depending on what the person was banned for. Not saying that anyone should give it a shot, but a one time mistake caused by the heat of the moment such as saying something that went over the line in an argument. Or while drunk, is a bit more forgivable if you are able to take a step back and apologize the next day.

There's a thread in Meta from a fairly high rank who was busted for copy and pasting and started coming out with excuses about his family been ill and stuff. Can't find it but I think it was made this year.

Do you mean ChiBitCTy?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3432369.msg35948573#msg35948573

Sorry moderators, if not written there, but I have a very important question. about a week ago, my friend was blocked from sending messages on the forum, his login is sashaabc. Reconsider your decision, because from his words, he only did bounty reports on the forum, for which he can be banned ??? I am writing on his behalf because he wrote to the post office which is indicated in the office, but he never received a reply, and in the meantime the bounty is being sent and reports must be sent ...

Hi,

my colleague just wrote me that his account was banned.
And he don't know why.

He will not make a new account for the question why.
He will back his account.

Account:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=227699
User:
makuny

Please give us a answer why he is banned.

Best and have a nice day/evening.

It's my colleague.

This one might be honest. Could be a shitposting "office".

Hi,

I am raising this ban appeal post on behalf of a friend who is a full member in Bitcointalk and been really active for a very long time period.

UserName: askmecrypto
Profile Id: 1171473
Profile URL:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1171473

His profile is captured under Modlog as Autoban.
He did research, his profile is never captured in plagiarism or any hate responds.

Please help to understand reason for the ban.

Please view the screenshot linked in the URL below for a proof of the ban.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtVuGIom_XoKYJyhohUZcx1hScUhjLL_/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtVuGIom_XoKYJyhohUZcx1hScUhjLL_/view?usp=sharing)

Thank you,
Steven

Hey. Why banned my girlfriend's account? For participating in a bounty campaign?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2415059

hello sir,
I want to report that my sister account

name: treejay
link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=40556

account has been banned.
I hope you can unbanned my sister account ...

Recently my account "Roboabhishek" got banned, and I am sure it was due to copy paste.

The user BitcoinMarshall was providing me posts for the loan I provided him. I asked him on discord that if he can pay the mortgage but he kept offering me his excuses by telling he has kids and things are going badly for him.
But promised that he would repay my loan amount of 0.06BTC.

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Screenshots
- https://prnt.sc/lpv548
- http://prntscr.com/lpvbvw

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Then he told me he could write posts for me in return for the loan amount.

At 1st he asked for my account (I refused) then I asked him will he copy-paste from the internet?
-He declined and said he would write the posts all by himself and in past, he had written posts for some people as well.

I said ok and told him to write posts for me in notepad and provide it to me in discord.
He then continued to provide me posts daily. (For a few days I checked that his post quality was average, After a few days he started sending me inferior post quality)
I didn't read much of it, copy pasted as I was busy with other stuff.

In October I had my surgery and wasn't active on the forum for a few weeks.
Then in hospital post-surgery after a few days in bed, I opened up my account, and I saw the message saying you've been banned.

I tried to contact him, but he wasn't replying to me regarding the situation either on telegram nor on the discord.
The posts he provided me were partially copy pasted from different sources and merged into a single post.

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He said he will remember that I provided him a loan when he needed it and will always remember the favor and here's how I get treated by this person.
Also, he ran away with the loan amount. Just wanted to bring this up on the forum for my mental relief.

Oh .in fact . when the account is locked. can not delete, edit, comment.

Ok tks . Perhaps the previous user of the account has copied

I found the cause! This is terrible. It was my wedding day and I didn't write anything that day. This one was made by a friend of mine, he wanted to help me. Because I read from that date is not my handwriting, not my style. But now I know the reason of ban. That's sad. No one can be trusted in this world.  Let this be a lesson to other users, do not let anyone to their work otherwise it is easy to lose.

Yeah, that was it. What makes it worse is it probably wasn't true and people just use whatever desperate excuse they can think of which will get them the most sympathy as a last ditch attempt at saving their account. As I said in the thread, I would have had more respect if he had just apologised without the sob story (which I really don't believe). I wonder if theymos will ever implement signature bans? The only time I would ever let these users off is if they had their signature removed for x amount of time and they only got it back if they showed they contributed to the community in the meantime. Most are only here for payment so most probably wouldn't bother, but if you're active and contributing then I suppose you could redeem yourself, especially if you only copied a post or two. I would much prefer it if people just read the rules though and didn't actually copy and paste, because there really is no excuses for it.

I know chi off forum, quite a few of the collectibles guys do. And this is a rare case where what sounds like bullshit was actually true, I feel bad for Chi - but I also think he was a solid gold prick for doing it. Now I know it needs to be one rule for all, but in his case as I know the full story I do think he deserves a pass - maybe with a stipulation that he cant wear a sig for 6 months. On the flip side I can also see how much further Meta will turn into a cesspit of "but he got his account back" type posts.

You know him in real life or just off forum?