This is no different to copy and paste with regard to giving credit to original source. Non original work with no way to find the original source, bots can be made. Copy and paste in pic form is no different.

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As I have said before and will say once again this new focus on copy and paste is to rid the board or net negative persons who are incapable of producing original work and are only here to earn spam bucks from their sigs. Whether their bots grab the text and slap in in a pic or whether they do not is not any different. They can achieve their same goal to earn bucks, they do so on the basis of others original work.


I would go further to say that a spammer posting copy and paste off topic junk in a serious thread is less net negative that those that put up a semi convincing counter argument that is does not rebut the correct and true statements of someone else but leads people (who are unable to understand the truth or evaluate correctly the presented evidence) to believe the correct statements/claims have been successfully rebutted .... then those people are even more net negative and with too many of those examples should be again put on junior boards to work on their critical thinking and reasoning before ruining the main boards.

These bots and parrots are just a general dilution and annoyance rather than some that actually mislead people into incorrect assumptions and far away from reaching consensus in an optimal way.

Let's be clear on what is trying to be achieved by any actions taken.

I say only net positive actions that have a strong case should taken or you are actually damaging the board and being net negative.

Taking lots of action that leads to no provable net gain is pointless.

Cure the source of the issue. Make big changes else you will just keep tweaking and reporting forever.

Until you remove all financial incentive to post you will never get away from people trying to just post anything (mostly dilution and junk) to earn bucks they probably really need sadly.