I don't exactly know what the rules are around making these appeals, and as far as I can tell there isn't really much of a format to them either.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=370611

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Sorry bill gator, you are banned from posting or sending personal messages on this forum.
Plagiarism ( 60 days ) + 2 years Sig Ban

I came back from a walk the other day to see that I was banned. I'm going to be honest with you guys, I can't imagine spending 2-months off this forum. With that being said, I would not attempt to ban evade and I hope that posting this thread is not mistaken as such. I will not send any PMs, post anywhere else and I don't plan on replying to this thread. I just want to lay it out there and allow the community to decide what's up. I understand that my sentence is lenient in comparison to what others are receiving, but allow me to make a case for my "innocence".

The post that was plagiarized was this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996622.msg11970365#msg11970365

Original : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996622.msg11223465#msg11223465

and from what I can tell it was a blatant case of plagiarism. Now, let me be honest with all of you: I did not post that.

bill gator is an account I bought on November 7th, 2015. The plagiarized post occurred before I was the owner of the account. The plagiarized post was done while there was nothing in the signature and nothing to gain. My best guess is that the old owner recycled some posts from their other accounts.

Prior to purchasing bill gator, or ever making an account, I had an agreement with a couple of users to post on their accounts. This is how I found out about the forum, and Bitcoin; I was a hired writer from another forum. Once I came here, I fell in love with the technology, the community and created an account. The problem became, that I named my account after someone close to me and that was something I wanted to step away from.

I ended up contacting a "reputable" account salesman, who is a legendary member that hasn't posted in a couple of years. This was before all of the denouncing of account sales, and wasn't done with any malicious intent. My inquiry to the salesman was that I wanted an account with similar potential activity to my "handmade" account, as few posts as possible, and no trust so that I could just make a clean transition to a different account without the hassle of starting over.

If that was today, I would start over at newbie, because account sales are something the community agrees against. We even used one of the most trusted uncontroversial escrows that are still active today. This wasn't a shady back-alley deal with bad intentions; reputable people were involved and the community didn't stand against it at the time.

To wrap things up, this forum is my life, sad as that sounds - I love this community, I love Bitcoin and I want to be part of it. I did not make that post, I did not have access to bill gator at that time, there was nothing to gain from the post and there was nothing in the signature at the time of that post. I am not trying to skirt responsibility in anyway, but I want you to have all of the appropriate and relevant information to make a decision regarding this particular case.

I should have done more due diligence when I purchased the account originally, but all of the posts were so bad it seemed impossible that they would be plagiarized. If this appeal is found out of my favor, then I will see you fine people in a couple months. Hopefully, you're willing to see that my intentions are genuine and the punishment is misdirected.

I am happy to privately/publicly verify any of the information I've provided with staff if that becomes a relevant contingency.

Thank you for your time, you guys are the best - even those of you that I've bumped heads with.

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