Quote from: LeGaulois on Today at 12:47:58 PM

Should it be moderated? I don't know if I'm the first one to notice him and nobody reported before, or it's considered ok "to steal the intelligence" of someone else?

I think so. I remember people reporting users for using "text spinning" tools (or doing it manualy) to disguise their plagiarism. I believe the consensus was that this is still plagiarism (or actually worse, since they are going a step further trying to hide it).

Quote from: Flying Hellfish on July 22, 2018, 12:18:47 PM

IMO (do not read this as an official forum statement), it's clearly plagiarism. Changing a few words is still stealing the idea of the original author. Try that trick at work as a journalist (or university) and see how fucking fast you're fired and shunned... Without this type of rule folks could "word fuck" anything and claim it as there own.

All of the following are considered plagiarism:

-turning in someone else's work as your own
-copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
-failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
-giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
-changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
-copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether ---you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)
Source: https://www.plagiarism.org/article/what-is-plagiarism

Quote from: hilariousetc on July 22, 2018, 02:12:46 PM

They do this is an attempt to hide their plagiarism and make it harder to detect. It's still plagiarism.

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