Bump. We're nearing the two year mark on this. I feel like my case at least deserves a look, but I still haven't gotten a word from staff.

No, that’s not true. I bought the account many years ago, when it was something like a Member or something as trivial as that. All the feedback pertains to me, and I’d argue that its image was cultivated directly by me.

Alright, let's open this bad boy one more time.

There is a quick edit in the original post of this thread that provides useful context to this bump that I'd really appreciate anyone skim over before replying. It includes my actual ban appeal.

I didn't intend to add this part onto this bump, as I'm drafting this up, but... I've grown quite fond of this forum back when I was a regular here. Here's to hoping that I'm allowed back in at some point!

Cheers, if you made it this far.

I gave negative feedback to accounts that I felt were at high risk of being used for taking advantage of their status or reputation to scam by their new owners, and I will remain by those feedbacks even now. Yes, I played judge and jury and executioner with my subjective view, but your oversimplified statement overlooks the fact that this account was either a Jr. Member or a Member (can't remember) when I acquired possession of it and it had no trust feedback whatsoever - nothing like the accounts I chose to tag.


You might be referring to the basis of trust that The Pharmacist has for me, but it sounds like you're trying to derail my "trustworthiness" to 98 dollars and 28 cents so I'll ask you to scan through the rest of my trades as well. It may not compare to full-time traders here, but it still exceeds the amount that you posted - if that's any scale to how trustworthy one may be, which isn't. There are other factors such as timeliness, reliability, etc etc which I hope I exemplified to The Pharmacist during my interactions with him here, of whom will likely be taking those other factors into consideration.

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As biased as I am on this case, I get it. I do. Seeing a shit ton of people using this excuse and knowing that some of them may just be using it as a deceptive second chance at spamming for a few extra coins is infuriating, and there needs to be more thought put into this so that this isn't used as precedent for one of those fake cases to succeed in the future as well. However, I do ask that context is considered and I'm not grouped together in with yobit spammers or trust abusers that take advantage of account prestige.

Sorry for the late reply, folks - as I mentioned earlier, I'm on vacation.

Well, yes - cat's out of the bag. It was a bought account. I don't say this as an attempt to shield myself with it as an excuse, but I was introduced to the forum through the type of shady members that buy and sell accounts, and the normality of such practice was exaggerated in my mind. Quickly, I came to realize that that was an unwise move, but by then I had considerably invested in my presence here and figured that, since the majority of my activity was mine, it would be something to blow over. Evidently not, but I'm okay with it. Took it off my conscience, even though it may not have been in the best way.

However, I do urge the community, especially Lauda, to reconsider (if even briefly) the understandably hostile position that one may default to. I agree - account and trust farmers are despicable. However, neither of those terms are applicable to me. You'll see that I only dealt in the PayPal to BTC transactions that my lifestyle makes most convenient, and the DT ratings that I picked up along the way were simply byproducts of such. I dealt with many more non-DT members during my time here (among which was my largest transactions with the people that I trusted, even though they weren't necessarily on DT) as seen on my trust feedback.

I should have come clean of my own accord before this, explaining my situation and that I didn’t have ill intents, I know. But I do hope that the relationships that I built during my time here help attest against that as well.

Best wishes.

Wait, for real? I got nailed for a post in '15? I've been reading through a few similar threads about users being similarly hit by plagiarism posts a long time ago and - yes, it's plagiarism despite when it was - but this seems a little far fetched. I can't even remember writing this post, but I assume that it was in my phase of "wow, look at these signature campaigns!" that I thought I had taken care of deleted accordingly, but it appears not.

4 years ago - 4 years of genuine, positive contributions I've made to this community - and I'm banned off of this? I'd be happy with a temporary ban - those who are close to me know that I'm on vacation right now anyways - but a permanent ban disregarding what I've done this community for two damn lines 4 years ago is infuriating.

Right off the bat, I offered free hosting exclusive this community and maintained it for quite a while. Does that deserve no consideration as you guys pursue justice in this case? What about the many thousands of dollars that I fairly exchanged on this forum? I say this because I've been in your shoes, but I urge you to try to imagine this in your position, to your own account.

1/21/2021: I'm re-opening the thread. Please don't reply to this thread until you read this quick edit, as well as the entirety of the current discussion.

I've now waited over a year and a half for an answer that hasn't been speculation by forum members (as thoughtful and reasonable as they have been). During this time, I took a year interim as a period to acknowledge the obvious mistake I made in the past. I've clearly not a perfect person, so I ask that you keep that in mind in any discussions.

I'm only turning to bump this thread again because my emails to the ban appeal email have gone without response, with months in between to generously allow for one. I believe my ban appeal will be useful in this meta discussion of it, so I'll copy it over from my email to this post. It's not short, so feel free to just skim over it.


Cheers.

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Hi all. bitcoin revo here.

Original profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=372249

Logged into the forum a few weeks ago, saw that I was permanently banned with no reason listed. I'm posting here with a new account because I haven't received a response to an inquiring email I sent 15 days ago.

Why was I banned?

Best regards.