We apologize. We made a mistake, we were young and stupid, but this will not happen again.
Can we hope for unban. Please
Plagiarism leads to perma ban as you got and if you did not contribute any positive net effects on the forum before that ban dropped on you, you will almost not have a second chance and the ban will not be uplifted. I do not see positive net effects from your post history. So ... it is what it is.
Only user with good net effects will be considered and might be given a second chance.
It is a ban per person not per account so if you use other accounts on the forum (outside Meta and outside the thread - your ban appeal), it will be considered as ban evasion. Ban evasion will cause perma ban on your other accounts.
- Plagiarism: If you copy some text from somewhere, then you should have a good reason for it, and you must link to the source. Doing otherwise is plagiarism. Changing a few words around doesn't matter. If we find that you plagiarized, then you absolutely will be permanently banned, even if we find it years after you did it.
There's been no policy change. redsn0w wasn't permanently banned due to several factors which made me think that permabanning him would be a net negative for the forum. Nobody is banned strictly because of "the rules"; it's always handled case-by-case, but almost always, plagiarists deserve to be permabanned.
If you think that a ban should be ended, make your case in a new topic from a "good for the forum as a whole" perspective.
I contacted my friend, he said that he did not plagiarize, but simply replied with a link to the text, but forgot to indicate the source. Can we avoid being banned?