@TheQuin : i was going to answer him then i remembered our discussion the last time about newbies and here is what i found...
If the ratio of plagiarizing newbies is "most" then that would mean bots are becoming more prolific, no? Surely, AI is becoming more and more sophisticated and making it more and more difficult to sort real humans from the fakes (harder to accomplish in-person, so far).
On a completely unscientific basis, I'm thinking that 9 out 10 Newbies I encounter are bots. I probably see more of them because I always check my unread replies. These bots often just post to the thread that is on top of the board and I've commented in a lot of the stickied threads. I tend to spot them because they pick the same limited sample of posts to copy, I guess because it is the same program running.
Then there are the human plagiarists that just google the thread title and copy the first hit. They usually stand out because they are well written but not really that relevant to the discussion.