That is a sad side-effect of what happens when trolls and nefarious actors post a barrage of nonsensical text. When replies are made to address and question the trolls, it does inevitably take us away from the essence of the thread.

There is zero cloud around icopress and his application to become merit source because he has competence and credibility in abundance (and he has displayed that over a number of years). The issue is one that can only be accepted or declined by theymos, other than that it seems the vast majority of members support the application.

We have had 70+ posts in the thread and are on to page 4 yet there have been just two appeals that I can find. True to form, the NoorulHuda account-farmer was never going to miss the opportunity to try get at least one of the banned accounts reprieved. Another account (Nathrixxx) has asked for a reprieve too.

Here are their second chance appeals, in my opinion it is pointless restoring their accounts even with conditions/restrictions attached:

Not necessarily. There forum is full of people from all sorts of backgrounds and all have their own reasons for posting here. Some are copying text from external sources and pasting it without claiming to be the author and it is about news and current affairs. Without a shadow of doubt there are highly contentious and controversial members that are posting copied text for nefarious purposes but personally I would not tarnish all of them with the same brush.

Your memory is far better than mine

That is one of the beautiful things about the forum ecosystem because of the way it has contributed to the benefit of such a large number of members. The economy it has generated (by virtue of signature campaigns, buying/selling goods, services, competitions/games, loans and crypto exchanging) has flourished.

The imbalance is there for us all to see when posting in a forum as a Chipmixer participant back then would earn a minimum of $1200 per month when (as you rightly stated) it is above average income for many people around the world. That figure will drop significantly from new years day, that is when we will be able to estimate a median campaign rate.

There is one Premier League game taking place this evening: Nottingham Forest vs Tottenham Hotspur

Both teams have lost four of their previous six Premier League games. If Tottenham manage a win they will be joint 4th place with Manchester City but will remain in 5th because of goal difference.

These are the games taking place tomorrow Saturday 16th December:

Bournemouth vs Luton Town
Chelsea vs Sheffield United
Manchester City vs Crystal Palace
Newcastle United vs Fulham
Burnley vs Everton

I am expecting wins for Bournemouth, Chelsea, Manchester City, Fulham and Everton 

I understand, however those that have been banned and have come to terms with it may have created at least one other account. In the event they are the average member they may have come across the second chance thread and then can contemplate their next move.

If it happens to be an account-farmer, they probably would have flooded the thread with as many banned accounts as possible in the hope at least one would be saved and with that (even with the conditions of being unbanned) the hope of joining a signature campaign in the future. The fact it did not happen seems strange.

I doubt the member you know that earned $1200 per month was a sole case by being on a customised deal. If I recall correctly, for a short period at one stage all the Chipmixer participants were getting paid more than $1200 per month because the price of Bitcoin was high enough to take them over $300 per week.

He really might have Heavencoin as his next thread. I also do not need prayers from the OP no matter how much tries to re-invent himself. He is still offering odd jobs to offering prayers and anything else as long as he get paid in BTC 

It is also possible he is using religion as the excuse that brings him to the attention of others. When you look through the levels of scam accusations and reputations across the forum, you will notice there have been all manners in which people have been trying to extract money from gullible people or from those who they can gain trust of.

Even if he managed to get the account back there would be an interim period of a signature ban therefore to some extent it would defeat the object of getting the ban lifted. Having said that, it is a vital first step because the end goal would be of-course to join a signature campaign.

The irony as far the length of time he has waited to get his ban lifted (if it were to happen), is that after mixers themselves get banned the unbanned account would probably never be accepted in to any campaign by any decent manager.

The only campaign manager that was allowing members with red trust join his campaigns on an excessive basis will no longer have the luxury of filling slots with alt-accounts and spammers with mixers therefore the OP could have gone through all this fake apology for literally no benefit.

The OP is quite clearly making up the whole alleged incident but we do not know why he is attention-seeking. In my opinion he is an alt-account and certainly knows his way around the forum and has interacted with members. The way he is posting also shows him trying to show he is unaware of certain things but he cannot fool all the people reading the thread.

As he has not logged in since yesterday, hopefully he has ended this charade and it is the last we have seen of him.

For someone who claims he does not know a lot about the forum, you seem to know a bit too much about the forum and the members.

Maybe the owner of the farmed accounts is trying to keep up the charade of proclaiming their innocence because they hope eventually one of the admins will get bored of reading their constant crocodile tears. He should stop bumping this thread and make an appeal in that second chance thread as a last chance saloon.

If he fails in the second chance thread, he should lock this thread and give up.

What some of us in the forum deem to be marginal could be seen by the wider community as not marginal therefore the debates will rage on. Also, regardless of how fair or unfair a situation is, it is possible we will see cases where the community is adamant the business should be allowed to be represented in the forum but maybe theymos will disagree.

And, let us not forget the scenario of vice-versa too. It is will interesting to see if any mixer (or alike) will post to appeal against the ban. If there was an appeal or a request to review their ban it will be something members will probably not find consensus therefore it will create another piece of contention here.

There is no need for you to pretend you are scratching your head.

The first point is more to do with why a newbie such as yourself would bump a thread (which happens to be one of average information and not carrying the most important or statistical data) that has not been posted in for 15 months. for a members to con

The second point is to wonder why you or any other member would state the "screenshot really speaks volumes", when in fact the OP or Imgur removed it months ago (and that is why it does not show in my previous post when I re-quoted the image).

Here is what the screenshot currently show, does the "screenshot really speaks volumes" to you: https://imgur.com/a/2CXSC4U

He never provided any proof that he ever sent funds to a any mixer (be CM or a different). All that we have from the OP is his own story that he has posted without the slightest piece of evidence. I do not believe the $7 story and I am convinced he is an alt-account that is attention seeking. He does not even have a transaction id therefore why should he be believed?

Though it is not impossible the incident occurred, the manner in which he posted responses when questioned was sufficient for me to base my conclusion.

You never did point to any forum members you work with/for.

I agree, if members are given a second chance there should at least be some kind sort of sanction attached to the reprieve. Even if it is the season to be Jolly it should not mean every member that has been banned will be be reprieved. The OP covers that sanction part:

You must have been banned already for an extended period of time, at least 6 months.
You must point to at least 1 really good, constructive post you've made.
A ban on wearing a signature will be added, equal to at least 2 years minus however long you were banned.

I am surprised the thread has not been flooded with applications.

Here are the final group games to be played today 13th December :

Crvena Zvezda vs Manchester City
RB Leipzig vs BSC Young Boys Bern
Antwerp vs Barcelona
Atletico Madrid vs Lazio
Borussia Dortmund vsParis Saint-Germain
Celtic vs Feyenoord
FC Porto vs Shakhtar Donetsk
Newcastle United vs AC Milan

These were the results from the Champions League games played yesterday 12th December:

PSV Eindhoven 1-1 Arsenal
RC Lens 2-1 Sevilla  
1. FC Union Berlin 2-3 Real Madrid  
FC Copenhagen 1-0 Galatasaray  
Inter Milan 0-0 Real Sociedad  
Manchester United 0-1 Bayern Munich  
Napoli 2-0 Braga  
Red Bull Salzburg 1-3 Benfica

These are the teams that have qualified to the knock stage from the top half of the table:

Group A: Bayern Munich and FC Copenhagen
Group B: Arsenal and PSV Eindhoven
Group C: Real Madrid and Napoli
Group D: Real Sociedad and Inter Milan

It seems you have deviated from the previous thread where you claimed you wanted to be employed but now you seem to be offering free prayers for members.

Keeping that aside, how on earth are you expecting to receive Bitcoin for your odd jobs when you cannot string a sentence together without mentioning religion? What about the members who would consider hiring someone for the quality of his work and skills rather than the religious sermon, they would not bother contacting you now even if they had initially considered doing so.

The OP was never interested in knowing the name of the mixer he allegedly lost $7 with while he was mixing. Or to make it more, when someone created a thread (especially Scam Accusation) and does not even provide any evidence it cannot be taken seriously.

Furthermore, when the one accusing is then asked to provide evidence but all that is presented are more ramblings rather than coherent statements (but evidence is conveniently missing), it all points to this being an attention-seeking exercise by the OP.