But why now and why so many? Did they develop some automatic tool to check members' posts en masse, then moderators check suspicious posts manually and give out bans as required? Are there any false reports?
Asked same question here you can read comments below my question.
My question is why now?
And yes all reports are reviewed manually by moderators and given ban based on the usefulness of the accounts to the forum. Some get temporary 60days ban and signature ban between 1-2years while others get permanent ban.
Will the mods going to manually erase those copied posts as well? Plagiarism is hard to dispute. If its copy-pasting is the violation, sanction must be permaban.
Why now? Well its time for bitcointalk.org to claim the first page result when googling "Bitcoin", plagiarism I think prevents this from happening.