The current
plagiarism situation is ridiculous.
Fixed that for you.
Sure, more info probably should be given but it's not very feasible right now (though I've requested changed to how bans are handled and what info is displayed but it's probably not a priority right now). An alternative is to just not plagiarise others work and then people would have nothing to worry about.
Many valuable members got banned for life and we cannot contact them again as we only talked across PM. Banned for life for what's most likely some bullshit reason done years ago which does not justify a permaban weighting in the contributions for the forum. Unless you started an expert, everyone's posting history was pretty lame at the beginning. Someone in power that wants to harm you will find something across 1000's of posts to ban you. Since they don't need to give details they can freely banhammerize anyone they please, ruining your account for life and everything that it means for the people that spent ages here.
If they're valuable then they can appeal. Globals can now issue sig bans and will be given to those who we feel are net positive.
This is most likely a tool for someone in charge to get rid of people they don't like anyway.
It really isn't. It's a tool to get rid of plagiarisers and if you haven't done that then there's nothing to worry about.