Ban appeal - How to make it right and reduce workload for forum staffs
If some day, your account get banned (temporary or permanent), you will get a message that highlighted in Red. The message of ban reasons and guide steps will be different from case-to-case.
There is one of them (that I took from one of ban appeal topic)
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Sorry A, you are banned from posting or sending personal messages on this forum.
You have been banned by a forum moderator. You may appeal here: banappeals-w6pquw43@theymos.e4ward.com.
You have been banned by a forum moderator. You may appeal here: banappeals-w6pquw43@theymos.e4ward.com.
So, if it is your case, and it is your bad day, what should you do?
Please do it with following steps:
- Reading forum rules & remembering your past posts
- Self-checking your past posts for plagiarism
- Creating ban appeal topic & Avoiding ban evasion
- Bumping that topic periodically
1. Reading forum rules & Remembering your past posts
Remember that when you get banned, it is obviously that you most likely made something wrong, and violated forum rules. Your ban mostly come from your rule violations, so the first step you should do is finding and reading forum rules!
Please don't do anything else, except this step.
Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ
Reading all rules carefully, reading repeatedly to really understand them; then try to remember whatever things you made in the past likely violated one of those rules.
If you actually remembered you did something wrong, it's good. Now, the second step to come.
2. Self-checking your past posts for plagiarism
You should do this before moving to the third step. Because it is your case, so you have a responsibility to self-check all of your past posts to find out that you actually plagiarised or not. If the self-check results show you actually plagiarsised, and if you did not contribute anything to the forum in the past, your story should stop in the second step.
Please copying and pasting each of your past posts into Search Box of Google Search, then enter. You finally will find your plagiarism in the past.
It might take you half of a day to finish your self-check.
It might take you half of a day to finish your self-check.
3. Creating ban appeal topic & avoiding ban evasion
Creating an account with a name like: A-banappeal / A-meta, something like this. With A is your account name.
Then, using the account to create a topic in Meta board, and create a good title.
Something like:
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Ban Appeal: My account (A) got temporary / permanent ban. Please check!
Then posting your banned account. Someone tend to hide their banned account, they create ban appeal topic without account name, and link to account profile. It is one of the worst thing to do, because you need help, but you actually let others have to ask you for more details, and wait for your replies. I don't think they (staffs, and forum members) will feel comfortable with that.Warning!
- Create only one account, with good title, and present as detailed information of your ban (in the OP) as possible.
- Don't hide anything because you need help. So, if you actually remembered you did something wrong, please post link to bad posts that likely caused your ban (in your perspective). It will save a lot of time of forum staffs, and members.
- Only do all your appeal efforts with one account, and in only one topic. Open multi topics or using multi accounts to do this will result in ban evasion.
Avoiding ban evasion
Yeah, we understand you... But please, warn your brothers, and friends that you've used this account to report your case in Meta, and that they can never use this account on the other boards anymore... Thank you...
25. Ban evasion (using or creating accounts while one of your accounts is banned) is not allowed.[e]
25. If you get banned (temporarily or permanently) and create a new account to continue posting / sending PMs, it's considered ban evasion. The only exception is creating a thread in Meta about your ban.
He has several accounts all banned for ban evasion. It seems that the underlying offense which caused him to initially get into trouble (and often the thing which causes his alts to get noticed) is excessive multi-posting. But when he was warned and/or temporarily banned for this minor thing, he kept evading his bans. This forum cannot operate unless its few rules are followed, so ignoring the warnings and temporary bans that you receive and continuing to do the same stuff is unacceptable. People who do so are not welcome here.
His bans will not automatically expire, and any future alts we see from him will be permabanned. I may manually reconsider his ban if he promises to actually try not to break forum rules. The rules are not meant to silence anyone, but to keep the forum usable and fair. When someone multi-posts excessively, it monopolizes a thread in a way which harms everyone else's ability to communicate. Based on his posts in this thread, I think that he will just continue to break rules if unbanned, so I will not unban him at this time.
His bans will not automatically expire, and any future alts we see from him will be permabanned. I may manually reconsider his ban if he promises to actually try not to break forum rules. The rules are not meant to silence anyone, but to keep the forum usable and fair. When someone multi-posts excessively, it monopolizes a thread in a way which harms everyone else's ability to communicate. Based on his posts in this thread, I think that he will just continue to break rules if unbanned, so I will not unban him at this time.
4. Bumping periodically to get attention
You already have the attention of a Global Mod (hilariousetc). Unblocking your ban is something only Admin can do. All you can really do is send an email to the address you have for ban appeals, bump this thread periodically and hope for the best.
However, you should (again) pay your attention to not break another rule by pumping your ban appeal topic. It means users have rights to bump each topic once per 24 hours, but they have to delete previous bump before start a new pump each day. Personally, I don't support the idea to bump topic each day, maybe 3 or 7 day per bump is enough to catch attention.13. Bumps, "updates" are limited to once per 24 hours.[2]
21. Old bumps should be deleted. [2]
21. Old bumps should be deleted. [2]
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4. Bumps are limited to once per day (24 hours), yes this includes "updates", that's what the edit button is for. Old bumps should be deleted as they serve no purpose, and only clutter up topics and make it more annoying to read.
Prevention is better than ban appeal
Paying attention on your daily deleted shitposts. If your shitposts deleted, and you received delete message, please seriously consider about your posting habits, and change it to avoid bans.
These are shitposts, and probably contributed to why this account got banned. I'm not saying that's the only reason, but I'm sure it didn't help their case. Here's another one:
These types of posts are deleted on a daily basis, and if the user didn't take this as a warning and continued to post these sort of responses then they could of been banned for it. Generally, these types of posters normally copy and paste at some point too, but you'll have to wait for a response from a moderator to find out the exact reason.
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Opps thats awesome post , full of information.
These types of posts are deleted on a daily basis, and if the user didn't take this as a warning and continued to post these sort of responses then they could of been banned for it. Generally, these types of posters normally copy and paste at some point too, but you'll have to wait for a response from a moderator to find out the exact reason.
Some thing else
Ownership of orignal posts:
It was probably banned for copy and pasting. People obviously shouldn't be banned for sharing their own original articles but it should probably be noted that you originally posted it elsewhere and provide the source. Are your articles 100% original? Seem to get a few hits on google from other sources:
A few people have their bans removed for numerous reasons. It's not plagiarism if it's your own work and if you can prove that then the ban should be lifted in those cases.
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.
By the way, I would like to remind you that if you do ban evasion, you might appear there:
[Report] Ban Evasion [Requesting Admin/mod to check those and ban]
I don't think you have interests to be there.
[Forum / Campaign] Why have I been banned? Posting guidelines. (by Lauda)
Don't over-create Trust Appeals; keep minds/ emotions stable. No more Red