Golden,
Appreciate your kind words. I am glad some old timers are still around.
To answer a bit of your confusion. The "appeal process" for getting back a whitelist is to contact the council, tell them why you changed, then await their decision. Then either repeat a month later or get back in.
For various reasons including me being noted, we did that 5 months running before I took a break. Then council decided the best way forward was to allow me to reapply to the whitelist under a new name for a fresh start. Thus this app.
Everyone who has provided a path forward thank you, and anyone else I am interested to hear more.