Quote from: SaltySpitoon on November 30, 2018, 12:54:02 AM

Nope, the rules apply to everyone. Copy and pasting is absolutely not tolerated here. There is never a case where you will accidentally plagiarise. We've previously talked about plagarism spam vs incorrectly cited passages, so I hope we don't need to further discuss what if scenarios. Whether you are a legendary account or not, you shouldn't have any impunity to the rules. If you are here to gain a few bucks promoting some spam campaign, as long as you don't spam, its fine. The second you start spamming, you are detracting from other's forum experience to earn those few bucks, and need to be politely told to leave. A few years ago, the only copy and paste spam reports that I recall seeing were just bots advertising ED medicine or something. People just copy and pasting other people's posts is a relatively new thing. Its started because of signature advertising, its unbelievably lazy, and there can't be any tolerance for it.

The people who have been here for years and have done a lot of great work aren't here for the signature ads that incentive's spamming. Even if they are, they know better than to spam, and can get their post counts up by continuing to be helpful and do the same great work they've been doing all along. Copy and pasting posts is just lazy. If you want an excuse to get your post count up, go help some newbies, don't try to artificially inflate your post count with spam.

Look at that, this upped my post count by 1, but I'm reasonably confident it wont be reported as spam.

Thanks SaltySpitoon for your reflection. Since I have already admitted my faults, and that I hadn't read this meta section before today (I suppose this can't be my fault if I read other sections and not this one), and that I was not aware of this direct permaban for plagiarism (again my fault - the mother of all my faults!), my humble request is to receive a penalty that is not permanent.

I already know that people in this meta section is here mainly to gain merits (another thing I didn't know before this fact) so most people here will say that I can just leave forever, since they are perfect while I'm the sinner.

My request is to Theymos, which people tells me is the only one that can remove permabans, in order to be judged not only for my 1 or 2 or 3 or whatever sins, but also for my contributions made over the years.

In other words, instead of death penalty, I humbly request any other kind of clemency.