Ok, this sounds a very stupid thing I made, you are right. Don't even remember why I made it so, two months ago; it's not my normal way of contributing.
My last suggestions:
- users should be informed of their mistakes, so they don't repeat it (same as for deleted posts/threads, there should be a warning or an explanation)
- maybe reputation should consider these mistakes as opposite to merits, nobody is perfect but there should be an overall
- I appreciate your way of trying to keep the place clean, but direct ban to people that contributed most times in a proper way, and for years, to me it sounds a bit too much
Again, I made (at least) one mistake. As by rules (frankly I didn't read about this plagiarism strict rule before today, but it's my fault...) I'm out. If there's no mercy, this is my farewell to this community.
Ciao
Nobody should need a warning to not plagiarise content. It blows my mind that people even think to do this and there's no excuses for it, but that's greed and laziness for you. You can argue that it's harsh but that's how it is around here right now unless theymos says otherwise. I agree the rules or punishments for plagiarism should be displayed somewhere more prominent and shown upon sign-up, but again, this is only something theymos can implement.
LOL
Please be sensible that is not plagiarism that is a cryptopia announcement posting that to alert people here who may not have seen the notice their coins are danger if they do not see this is totally helpful.
Let's not start being completely crazy here.
His other one yes that is stupid error. I wonder if there are more or just an isolated case?
You can see it is announcement from cryptopia in the first line.
There's usually more but one is all you need for a ban. Staff aren't going to go though all their posts and tally up all the ones we can find as it's just a colossal waste of time. I probably wouldn't have banned him for that ICO announcement but it still should be properly quoted and sourced.