Quote from: Veleor on October 16, 2018, 07:40:12 AM

Quote from: hilariousetc on October 16, 2018, 07:02:11 AM

There's a thread in Meta from a fairly high rank who was busted for copy and pasting and started coming out with excuses about his family been ill and stuff. Can't find it but I think it was made this year.

Do you mean ChiBitCTy?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3432369.msg35948573#msg35948573

Yeah, that was it. What makes it worse is it probably wasn't true and people just use whatever desperate excuse they can think of which will get them the most sympathy as a last ditch attempt at saving their account. As I said in the thread, I would have had more respect if he had just apologised without the sob story (which I really don't believe). I wonder if theymos will ever implement signature bans? The only time I would ever let these users off is if they had their signature removed for x amount of time and they only got it back if they showed they contributed to the community in the meantime. Most are only here for payment so most probably wouldn't bother, but if you're active and contributing then I suppose you could redeem yourself, especially if you only copied a post or two. I would much prefer it if people just read the rules though and didn't actually copy and paste, because there really is no excuses for it.