Quote from: Chosen Username on December 21, 2018, 09:18:43 PM

their should be a statute of limitations agreed upon for plagiarism

Banning someone for a post made years ago would probably be quite harsh, especially if they've since changed their ways. In these sorts of cases I would much prefer a sig ban.

Quote from: suchmoon on December 21, 2018, 09:27:45 PM

Quote from: Chosen Username on December 21, 2018, 09:18:43 PM

if you are motivated enough to go through the many years and thousands of posts on my legendary account

Not sure how to break this to you gently but you're not really a Legendary.

Is this cryptohunter?

Seems the votes are pretty much evenly split between all options minus the fee one.

Theymos PMd me and said permabans for plagiarism don't have to be set in stone as there are no hard rules and we can use our own initiative on whether to ban certain users or not but I think there needs to be some consistency across staff so it doesn't look like we're giving certain favours to people as it will just lead to people whinging and bugging staff members that x was unbanned by y and therefore so should they.

Theymos has already implemented facilities to sig ban people and personally I think this is something we should be doing for those cases of users where they deserve a second chance, so hopefully he can roll out that feature to Globals so we can give them in appropriate cases. Maybe the sigs can be 'earned' back automatically after x amount of time/merit/contributions or after manual staff review, but at least those who are here to genuinely contribute something can still do so regardless.

Two cases that would probably be deserving of unbans/signature bans are ChiBitCTy & Roboabhishek.

Appeal threads:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3432369.msg35819856#msg35819856
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5079217.msg48408455#msg48408455

I'm not sure I buy either of their excuses (though they are plausible) but I'd be willing to give them a second chance as they were both active and somewhat appreciated members and have vouches from other respected members, but I think some sort of sig ban would be appropriate here given they were both essentially doing it for payment. They both seem to care more about just getting their accounts back and even suggested they're fine with a sig ban so I think this is something we should consider for review:

Quote from: ChiBitCTy2 on December 14, 2018, 01:54:08 PM

For 8 months Ive watched many opportunities pass by where I feel I could have added value to the forum. My post history is pretty telling of what kind of forum member I believe I mostly was. My topics are either detailed posts to really try and add value here or for collectibles purposes.

Hilarious and TheymosI respect you guys and I fully understand where youre coming from. However, youve both stated youd be willing to let a member back who you feel would contribute positively moving forward (likely with stipulations). Besides my lapse in common sense one day..Ive done nothing but try and contribute positively here. Plenty of it being pre-signature days too. So..put me to the test!! Fuck my signature, hell ban me from it for good. Give me a chance and I will still be here, still contributing, whether now or a year from now. Easy promise I can make/keep.

Quote from: Alt_robo on December 14, 2018, 07:32:43 PM

I don't care about the signature as much as I care about my alias.
If it's possible, then I'll gladly accept it and obviously mistake as this one will never occur from my side ever again.