Let's me tell you some facts:
- There are bots (or is a single bot) that designed to find past plagiarism
- There are so many Ban Appeals last week
- There are changes in theymos' approach to deal with permanent bans
- There are new allocated rights for global moderators to unban permanent banned users
- There are loads of unexpected works that dropped on mods, global mods and admins
So, please tell me:
- How many appealers say thanks to @theymos, global mods, and mods?
- How many of appealers admited their plagiarism mistakes?
Users plagiarised and blame their faults on forum rules, then ask for appeals. That's a big joke, in my opinion because you made mistakes, and ask someone works for you, then if results are not what you expect, you blame on them for the second time.
I deeply empathizes on perma-banned users for mistakes made, but we all know that not all perma-banned users (due to plagiarism) will get their bans lifted.
In the meantime, please:
- Say thanks to theymos for his allocation new rights on global moderators, and his approach to give more chances for perma-banned users.
- Say thanks to global mods whom actually work to dig your past stuffs to find reasons for your ban uplifts.
- Say thanks to mods, whom carefully checked reports from forum users, then send their detailed reports to admins or global mods.
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.
Globals can now issue sig bans so it'll happen more often but isn't going to be a let off for everyone (so if half your posts are copy and pastes then forget about it but people who are getting banned for one or two posts from years ago will likely be shown some mercy).
Plagiarism. It'll probably get changed to a sig ban though since the post that was reported was from 2014 and he seems to be a half-decent poster. I'll look into it later.
That's all you need to get a rope of ban uplift, if you meet those things. I don't know you meet them or not, and you should self-assess your quality. I don't know you locked your topic, or mod locked it, but if your Ban Appeal solved, it should be locked. Solved does not mean ban uplift.
Even if your Ban Appeal won't result in Ban Uplift, you should say thanks to all of them.
Best regards,
Tran Thi Dzung