Pardon for President

• Your profile link: President
• All of your Sythe Accounts: President, robinhopok, LethalSh0ts (the relation to the other accounts is more nuanced, please see text below).
• Report/post/reason that got you banned: Ban-evasion
• Proof of contacting victims for repayment or repayment of victims: Not applicable as far as I know, but we will follow staff's instructions here if necessary
• Anything you weren't banned for but want to confess to now: Not applicable
• A detailed description of the events that took place and why you think we should forgive you:
  
  First of all, I apologize for being linked to these accounts and, by extension, all the allegations that come with it. I understand the crimination and would like to give it more context.
  
  When reading this, please take into consideration that the named accounts were banned almost 10 years ago.
  
  I've asked the person behind Robinhopok (from now on xCode), who is my lifelong real-life friend and now a reputable scripter for over 5 years on Tribot. to create a bot for me that helps me bump my threads. He created a .NET application that processes a ping from me and then bumps my threads with a message I specify. He hosts this application on his home server. Hence, the IP-address match. The use of this tool is also conform the Sythe bumping rules as far as I know.
  
  xCode told me that his account had been banned in the past for evading lethalSh0ts and that he never bothered appealing it, because he had no interest in Sythe and was more focused on scripting for Tribot. As for LethalSh0ts, he was a mutual friend of ours who went to the same high school as us and was in our group of friends. In other words, xCode was never evading LethalSh0ts, to begin with, they're two different people who might have used the same IP (local library, school back then and even each other's home) and were interacting in more than one way, but they are not the same people. I can imagine that xCode was careless in 2010, because of his lack of ambitions on Sythe. And in further defense of xCode, I don't think he has ever had a scammer allegation himself on Sythe, he was just purely banned for evasion because there was a significant link between the two accounts.
  
  But even if we assume that Robinhopok and LethalSh0ts are the same people, I am an entirely different account/person, both IRL and on Sythe. The reason why our Skype accounts match is because Robinhopok asked me to buy pins in the past. Deals which -if they were to go wrong and what didn't happen- I would have taken full responsibility for. I understand how bad this looks and how foolish it is to sell and buy goods for a person that is banned on the platform, however, I do want to add that the last time this happened -as far as I can recall- was in 2013. Now I'm much more careful. Lastly, please check the creation IP of the Users. This really pleads in my favor and implies that we are different people.
  
  Nevertheless, I'm trying to build a legitimate business here. Having said that, I understand that being tied to these Users is sketchy, especially with a pending Moderator-application. I completely diregarded the fact that this link could be laid and my intentions were never bad. I know that this looks bad and I'm sorry about that. However, I do want to emphasize once again that the accounts in question have been banned almost 10 years ago. At that moment in time I was 14 or 15 years old. Nevertheless, I'm being linked to these Users and these links are substantiated, so in order to clear my name I am prepared to restore whatever damages were dealt by said users that resulted in their bans, that is, if these lumps are proportionate and reasonable of course.
  
  Sustaining a respectable name is my top priority. I never intended to get linked with anything obscure and want to be as transparent as possible. Lastly, but not least, please note that in the past two years or so that I have become more active on Sythe, I have not had a scammer allegation, and if I did have a dispute I handled it gentlemanlike. I have worked on developing a noteworthy and positive reputation, gained a lot of vouches and helped out a lot of Members and the community.
  
  What would I like to do in the future: stay a positive figure for this community. The learning point here is to be careful whom I associate myself with on Sythe and specifically my account. I was also too careless and if I could do things differently I would. I would have brought the issue forward myself, instead of have Sythe-staff do the gravedigging and make me look bad.

• Did you fully read and follow this sticky thread in the pardon section?: Yes
• Previous pardon link(s) if applicable: Not applicable