We could solve a lot of these problems by just actually making people aware of the most commonly broken rules. The basic rules or etiquette should either be stated when you sign up or linked to or even better a warning displayed when you go to post along the lines of
Please do not plagiarise/copy and paste other's content without proper attribution would help a lot.
I think plagiarism on this forum is more similar to being utterly lazy in your job than academic plagiarism. Most of those bounty hunters treat this as a source of income AND don't want to put effort into it. This irreconcilable contradiction won't be fixed by forcing them to read an explanation. I do appreciate the attempt though and I think we could do something like this even if that's just for the 1% of shitposters who could potentially be persuaded otherwise.
Exactly. Most have just found a loophole here and they're quick to exploit it. I'm sure there are a handful of people who might not understand the severity of what they're doing when they plagiarise content from elsewhere but for the most they're probably just greedy or lazy or even just not qualified for the job (not being able to speak English to an acceptable standard). There's absolutely no excuses for copying someone else's post from the same thread and they do that for the reasons I've just stated. Nobody in their right mind regardless of cultural differences would think that's acceptable and they know what they're doing when they do it.