the similarities were uncanny, and to my best knownlege, it definantly looked look like a c+p. It was because of my reasoning that lead me to beleive that it was a c+P, not the other way around

. btw, just from reading your post, i highly doubt your a computer programmer, or that you wrote that guide yourself, only based on the way you structered it , how you made you case and presented yourself. furthermore, if you truly do have adequet programming skills, id be under the impression that you would have wisdom, and would not c+p (i still think you did). Things do pop up on the net that are the same, but the entire structure (and wording) of your submission is just to alike to the linked one.
maybe im a hardass, who knows. but you have to realize c+p are against the rules, and if there is substantial evidance that you c+p (which there is) you are subject to the consequesces, and i firmly beleive you c+p, and that you need to be banned or you need to understand that in the future if you c+p, you will be banned.
thanks for reading.