Same here. I pray that your health will get back to normal. 5 years? That's a lot of time if you think about it. We can see on his records that he is not motivated by money or any personal gains, and I also think this will take time before they reconsider you from using your old account again. You should not lose hope and provide justification as to why you wanted to use your account again, coz I think 5 years is enough already as your punishment. I hope everything's all right for you there.

I have advised the OP to make one statement that he wants to get forgiveness for his mistake by not repeating the same mistake and also by banning signature on his profile. I think the admin will agree with the OP's request if in the end the OP makes statement like that, but I don't know if the OP will do it or even expect more from the admin.

That's the most likely solution the OP is considering, it's meant to be a conditional pardon so as not to cause too much mess in the other cases.

Uhhh,.. have we got any ophthalmologist in here?? Seems I've got glaucoma, honestly... Did I just see this particular account being active throughout yesterday? Maybe he was given a second chance?? Who knows?
If he has, then the rules could possibly be bridged..but 'em rules ain't even followed accordingly anymore; my interest is in the phase of plagiarism.. I'm not even against him coming back, I'm only surprised to have realized the fact that MAYBE he was unbanned but he never came back in appreciation - atleast for his solicitors - or publicity either. Anyone observed much more than I did??

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However, you must understand this one topic. Make a concrete statement, chances are you can be forgiven. But I don't know how the moderator handled your case, but give it a try.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5087992.0

There's a chance that if you want to participate in the community after you've been banned because plagiarism, you can expect the moderators to forgive you by not repeating the same mistake again and you should be prepared for signature space ban.

Wow, half a decade is a pretty lengthy term, and in my opinion, you definitely learned your lesson and maybe deserve a second chance. Especially considering that upon reviewing your past threads, it appears that you weren't involved in any bounty campaigns at the time of your ban. This fact leads me to believe that your actions were not motivated by financial gain, but rather a lapse in judgement or a misunderstanding of the rules. Either way, I'm confident that you have grown from this experience.

Why create another topic? You already have the same topic, so write there and raise your old topic. Creating a bunch of topics with apologies won't change anything. Plagiarism, my friend, is a very serious offense. I understand that hope dies last, but not in this case, I think.

What I really think is that over the past five years you have failed to promote a new account due to the difficulty of doing so. So I thought maybe you can recover the banned account.

Plagiarism ?

I'm tired of your endless unrational actions.
I mean its clearly to all members that you protect the abusers of that forum and give a shit if a legit account gets destroyed or not.
You claim its in the name of decentralisation but at the same time you gave the forum under a centralised power of a small group which i don't even wanna talk about anymore.
But the fact that these people use you for their manipulation so easily is just out of control.
You are punishing now high ranked members for plagiarism back from 2014.At that time noone cared about plagiarism.I mean copy paste of some important news from media to the community did everybody somewhere in the past.You would need to ban at least 3/4 of the forum if all these members would be reported since nearly everyone did something like that in the past if he participated on that forum for a longer time.

But what is most disgusting now is that you turned to get a weapon of suchmoon.Suchmoon clearly searched hard to find anything to attack that member who has over 10k posts and the only thing she could find were posts back from 2014 with some lines of plagiarism.She clearly searched for something which she could use to attack that member since which normal user would digg so deep in an account with so many posts and check posts made back in 2014 ?
Its a clear attack of suchmoon or the guy who reported that account.

Even DT members already posted that you turned to be the most strict forum on the internet.

<...> Nobody is banned strictly because of "the rules"; it's always handled case-by-case, but almost always, plagiarists deserve to be permabanned.

If you think that a ban should be ended, make your case in a new topic from a "good for the forum as a whole" perspective.

You don't get a blanket permission to post anywhere you like in Meta:

If you do that then you're doing it for only one reason: to get paid.

Hilariousandco will not be able to help you, I guess only admin has power to grant you pardon.
 
Now coming to Theymos:
1. Barely able to meet the demands of community after community/hilriousandco created threads for actionable item. Note: Threads was for welfare of community and by global Mod but still it took more than a month by theymos to write "ok" or "not ok".
2. People who have account hacked are still waiting for their account unlocked for almost an year. They are also ready to give the payments for their accounts. Can't you see a very busy admin here who is not able to help the users who are following rules in the forum?
3. Money does not matter to him so stop offering him any money related suggestion to him.


Now coming to you(Rapid123)

Try your luck with Cyrus if he like to help you.

AFAIK theymos has unbanned at least a couple of users perma-banned for plagiarism:

- one who could prove they were framed
- one who messed up quoting

That sounds like enough flexibility. But please feel free to show the post you were banned for so that we can evaluate it.

Where is mercy and kindness ?
Oh, please.  You can't deal with the level of idiocy bitcointalk is seeing with mercy or kindness.  Such sentiments will only give incentive for plagiarists and others to keep breaking the rules and making the forum worse than it already is.

Like hilariousetc mentioned on another thread, maybe Sig can be removed for a time period for plagiarists, but nothing less than an year. Guess flexible and a chance for the regretful to correct their mistakes.

IMO, permabans for plagiarism should stand.  Copy/pasting is usually a clear case of wrongdoing and something everyone should know not to do.  If you make the consequence for that a temporary ban, people will just keep doing it until they get caught--which they're basically doing anyway.  Plagiarism isn't a mistake people are making.  In fact, if you're getting permabanned here, it's usually a certainty that the person isn't making a mistake at all.  They know exactly what they're doing and they know it's wrong.

Oh, please.  You can't deal with the level of idiocy bitcointalk is seeing with mercy or kindness.  Such sentiments will only give incentive for plagiarists and others to keep breaking the rules and making the forum worse than it already is.

it's usually a certainty that the person isn't making a mistake at all.  They know exactly what they're doing and they know it's wrong.

In practice however this usually isn't the case. 99% of the people who are getting banned are people who are doing this for monetary gain, and systematically. Giving them a second chance would only pollute the forum even more.