I immediately called the reason why I was on this forum! If I do not participate in discussions, but simply read and participate in the bounty, this is not a reason to make a decision for me. Why not introduce a warning system, take into account the number of warnings, and after that - ban? Someone broke the rules many times ... someone stumbled once. Is this really fair? If I received a violation notice after the first violation, I wouldn't like to break the rules anymore! But apparently no one needs it. It's easier to sell an account to someone who was banned ...
If you had posted only bounty reports and hadn't tried to post "real" content (which you plagiarized) - you wouldn't be banned. So quit twisting this pretzel about a harmless bounty hunter.
There are warnings (in the form of deleted posts and temporary bans) for lesser offenses but plagiarism is considered sufficiently egregious for an immediate ban. If you drink and drive you're unlikely to get a warning and continue on your way even if you claim that you didn't know it's a bad thing.
Your insta perma ban makes completly no sense when trying to educate the members
If someone needs to be "educated" to not steal then perhaps we're better off without them.
But you're doing a great job pivoting from bullshit posts about the trust system to bullshit posts about forum rules.