not many success stories around, but here's mine (only worked once on ONE account MONTHS ago).
My DH got on my main got banned in a ban wave (lost 4-5 accounts at once), all farming gold doing sark way back when (pre-input limit era). I appealed saying basically "Why'd I get banned, I don't use any bots.. the only reason I could think of is that I farm sarkoth manually for hours while watching video lectures for college but that's because a friend told me it's the most efficient way to farm."
They responded saying "oh sorry sometimes we make mistakes." All I know is what happened - similar appeals since then have not worked on any of my accounts.
Good luck.