It’s not just Newbies that plagiarize, although they tend to do it more often than other ranks on the whole. I don’t know, maybe I’m a bit old school here, but I find it plain dumb to plagiarize, and denotes a lack of effort and willingness to better oneself. I mean one can look over some article, cross-reference it, and come up with a memory held summary or a versed opinion without too much effort. I guess that it is when laziness wins the battle over willingness, that one tries to find an easy way out which, in this forum, leads to thinking that plagiarism or posting crap is a quick way to comply with activity and/or post per week, and perhaps fool someone into giving them a stray merit.

There’s even a trend in trying to skip a plagiarism accusation, by copy/pasting an extract of an article and adding a reference link. There we go, avoided the plagiarism offence, but added cero value and laid out a merit trap for the absentminded. This kind of situation can be reported though, as it normally adds no value on its own without an accompanying versed opinion or somewhat.