Shall we assume that you thinking it is OK to plagiarize content is part of your "culture?" I think not. It appears to be a personal ethical issue in your case. If you must use someone else's word to convey your point, this board has features such as making obvious it is a quote or you can post a link to the original content. There is absolutely no excuse. Also, it appears quite lazy that you have to resort to copy/pasting someone else's words just to make a brief "hello, I'm here and ready to participate," statement. I personally don't have an issue with you reusing your own introductory phrase. But to resort to copying someone else's introductory phrase and using it as your own is just plain wrong. It appears that the main reason that you were banned was because you were plagiarizing content on the Russian local board. If you are proficient in that language, that is just not excusable. If you are not proficient in that language and felt that you had the need to copy other people's content to make up for it, you had no business making any posts there in the 1st place.