Dear all Ban Appealers and admins,
Don't hurry!Start day of Signature Ban should be consideredThere are so many banned accounts recent days, as well as so many Ban Appeals created during the same period. I understood your feelings when your accounts banned; and your emotions and expectation to see your Ban Appeals solved as fastly as possible. However, I would like to remind you only one thing that I wrote in one of Ban Appeals. I think you might see my post as well as hilariousandco's post in that topic (or might not), but I think it is good (not bad) if I leave it there, so everyone who have ban appeals can see.
The point is even when your case solved with unban and signature ban for one or two years, there is no need to hurry up and burst Meta board with your bumps too regularly. I don't know because Admins or global mods did not write it (by now) that which days chosen as start day of signature ban period. However, I guess it is the day your account got Perman Ban. If yes, it is the same Signature Ban Period and it does not depend upon the day your Ban Appeal solved and account get unbanned.
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).
It depends on how many times of plagiarism. If markiz73 only did it one or two times so far, especially did it years ago; and had good net effects, markiz73 surely will be considered and likely given a mercy, and can jump out from the grave. Above is stance of hilariousandco, that is clearly states that second chancce is not a common one for all permanent banned users due to plagiarism. As global mod wrote, each appeal will be considered carefully, by looking and finding past plagiarism, not only what already reported, but also global mod need time to dig deeply and find potential more plagiarism before making decision on a second chance. Past contributions and good net effects are clearly shown by supporters, so it is only takes time to find out more past plagiarism, I guess.
Cases:By now, maybe my theory is wrong, but we need to see more cases.
lovesmayfamilis. Ban Appeal wrote on 11 May 2019, Unban on 14 May 2019; Signature ban till 14 May 2020.
A criterion on start day of Signature Ban should be considered and applied equally for allI think it should be better to apply Signature ban period with start day is the day of perma-ban, not the day of Unban.
By choosing the start day of signature ban as the day of unban; it does not matter if cases solved after few days of bans, but it might be unfair if cases solved months after ban days.