Quote from: boy130 on December 13, 2018, 12:54:18 PM

Wow, it's really sad to see how far this forum has fallen. A member who has been a loyal part of this forum for over three years is permanently banned over copying and pasting some posts, with no realistic chance of appeal, unbelievable.

Since when has this forum become so vindictive that even well-known members are not provided a second chance, especially over something so meager. Not only that, but most of the comments here are extremely warped at best, and delusional at worst.

Well done to the Pharmacist and LoyceV for sticking up for this user, it seems most of the other DT members are so far gone that they cannot reason beyond their own resentful frame of mind.

Would you be sticking up for someone else if they got caught copy and pasting? The forum has fallen due to copy and pasters and spammers and hence why they're punished appropriately when caught because we have a zero tolerance policy for plagiarisers. This really isn't about being vindictive but enforcing the rules across the board that everyone knows about, especially older members. Being here x amount of years isn't a licence to copy and paste. If you've been here so long you should know better but I don't think some users should be given a free pass just because they did something stupid or came up with an inventive excuse. I really just wish people would stop copy and pasting so nobody would have anything to complain about and nobody had to do any banning. The punishments are there and strict so people know not to do this behaviour. The only change to the punishments for plagiarists I'd be ok with is that they lose their signature instead and can still post here, but for 99% of people who are banned for copy and pasting this is as good as a ban anyway, but at least they can still contribute here.