I can't speak for this guy and I'm against his idea but the suggestion i made few days ago wasn't out of me been a spammer but I was just trying to contribute to the suggestions coming from different members of the forum. The administratorss are experimenting better solutions to combating plagiarism and always open to suggestions. You shouldn't generalize your statement.
lets take a look here:
I think for the most part, someone who is banned from wearing a signature is probably not going to be posting very much anyway, and mostly were here solely for the signature money.
Many of the reported posts weren't even part of a sig campaign. Just accounts trying to rank activity.
i think its fair to say that these two reasons make up the majority of cases of plagiarism; account farming and sig spam.
in addition:
And as far as the hurt feelings resulting from the 'scarlet letter' sig-banned members have to wear, I don't have much sympathy for them. They're lucky they're still able to post instead of getting a permaban.
In addition, I haven't heard any teasing or taunting yet and somehow I don't think it's really going to be an issue. The vast majority of members here are just shitposting and wouldn't even bother to say anything negative about someone's sig message. And I mean, come on. This forum is freakin' brutal enough as it is. If you don't have a thick skin, this isn't the forum for you.
i fully agree with this point, so to follow, a proposal that i believe i havent seen yet:
remember that timer between posts? it requires you to wait 360 seconds between a post / pm / report for a newbie, and 4 seconds for hero members and up iirc. this is probably one of the most annoying things for actual users to go through as a newer member, so why not force this massive inconvenience onto plagiarizers? give them a special timer, something crippling, like 30 minutes (or even an hour) between actions on the forum.
i dont think this is a perfect solution by any means, but its an alternative that came to mind just now.