Sincerely i taught i added the source link not knowing i did not. I have no idea what transpired that day, but I never intended to pass off someone else's content as my own.
Sorry OP, but I do not think it was an honest mistake. After you created a topic with plagiarized content, you applied that same post to be merit assessed by fillippone (merit source). You even declared the post as an "opinion", despite the fact that there is not a single word that originated from your own thoughts; it was entirely copy-pasted. This indicates a clear intention to present someone else's work as your own and earn merits to boost your forum ranking.