I just read through some of the other appeals, and my circumstance seems to be like Baylor's. I've been playing on Zedwork Zurvival where the automatic chest land claim and the ease of claiming more land led me to believe that if something was unprotected that it was fair game, especially since that likely means that the player isn't active on the server anymore and thus would have no use for his or her stuff... I guess I was wrong though.
Ironically enough, seconds before I was banned I took a single sign out of someone's house which I was going to post on their stoop telling them that they needed to claim their land. There were 8 diamonds in their chest and I didn't want them to lose those. I also harvested some wheat and carrots and replanted them, but I won't deny that I have taken other things from chests, too. Again though, I thought that was fair if the land was unclaimed.
Bottom line is I was lazy and did not want to spend my time collecting resources, just building. But now I have come to really enjoy this server, and I have a put a lot of time into my house (which I think is looking pretty sweet btw). If you should lift my ban, I will return as a reformed member of society and pay any reparations that are required of me.