Because they don't deserve with a second chance so their appeals were refused.[/qiote]
Or maybe because it was extremely hard to get ban removed due plagiarism back in those days, even for the simplest case of one plagiarized sentence.
I'm referring to all the scheming, conniving, alt-accounting, merit-groveling weasels that are anything but honest and only here to extract as much wealth from as many different sig campaigns and bounties as they can get themselves into.
I think that many of those won't even get ban lifted due simple reason that they won't be able to submit one very good constructive post.
I like the intiative and I think it should have been practiced years ago. But, better late than never.