It's pointless even appealing a permaban in the current system. If they're told what they were banned for and that it's permanent then most except the truly desperate probably wouldn't even bother trying.
90% of banned users know the real reason why they were banned, they obviously Knew when they tried to cheat the system by copy and pasting in the hope of getting unnoticed,but when eventually caught and banned still make an appeal here in meta about their ban
But I don't think a lot of them do. Most of them probably didn't think they were doing anything wrong, because why would they even ask in the first place? Most people are probably completely oblivious to the rules, and seem to think that as long as they make a post or change a few words it's ok. If they knew the rules here they wouldn't bother asking if they can be unbanned either since they'd know it's not going to happen for such an infraction.
What is the point of saying people can appeal and that it is ok to discuss the ban in meta?
For users who still feels they have a case to appeal, I feel this will be the best option
"New Child Board for banned users" I also have some additional suggestion. I notice all members who started the topic on ban accounts are new members and that can only mean as a ban user you lose the privileges to start topics or rely on topics so the only option is to create a new account to appeal your case. I believe this isn't the best solution since most users get banned and most times don't know why. So in addition to creating a separate child board for banned users, they should also have the privileges of using their old account to appeal their cases only on the child board section. this will prevent the amount of alt account created on the forum.
But why not actually tackle the problem at the source of the issue? That's just sweeping the dirt under the rug or into a different room. The crap is still going to be there just out of sight. Chnage the ban message or give them the details of why they were banned and that should stop most people from even asking about their ban. Of course some will still protest but the numbers of them will be greatly reduced.
Agreed with OP. All the copypasta bans are valid.
Sometimes there are exceptions.
After investigation, and with help from the rest of the mod team, I've determined that inbizin = bitkoinguru$$$. He created that blog post (registering the domain in June) and then made that post in Meta in order to frame you. The moderator who actually did the banning was not a Russian moderator, but was acting upon what seemed to be a clear case of plagiarism. The thought of this type of attack had occurred to me before, but this is the first time that it's actually been done successfully. I'll have to think about countermeasures.
You're unbanned. Sorry about that.
I unbanned it. Please make sure you leave a note and source at the top or bottom that it has been published elsewhere in future.
Well, those were cases of mistaken instances. One was even a well orchestrated set-up, but there's usually no exceptions for anyone who genuinely does copy other's content (though cyrus did unban one user onetime).