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Re: Give good posters amnesty
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tranthidung
on 20/05/2019, 22:51:17 UTC
⭐ Merited by Quickseller (1)
In short, if theymos does not care about that, we actually have not see something changed:
- Alternative for permanent ban (due to plagiarism): temporary ban + signature ban
- Allow global moderators new rights to unban users and give signature bans to speed up progress of Ban Appeal Investigation.
Being able to take the second chance or not totally depends on each banned users (their past violations (times + severity), contributions and their net-effects).
There is a topic in which you can observe users that got unbanned within current banwave: ✅[UNBAN APPEAL] Total list + Unban progress
Other users got unbanned or temporary ban + signature ban originally are: ChiBitCTy, Limx Dev, redsn0w; bill gator

Edited: theymos' newest clarification
Merely forgetting to quote things is not plagiarism, and if we read it that way, you probably won't be banned at all. For it to plagiarism, you have to have the intention of passing the text off as an original work by you. In all of these recent cases (unless we make a mistake, which is rare), it's extremely obvious in context that the person is copy/pasting to make money. Usually they're copy/pasting someone else's post and not adding anything else, in fact, which makes it very clear. Here's the most recent one:
I really like how the project is developed, we hope to get very far and that.Everything goes well and the group of developers keep us posted on everything.
I really like how the project is developed, we hope to get very far and that.Everything goes well and the group of developers keep us posted on everything

All of the recent cases are ~exactly like this, since this is what the bot looks for. (Thank you to the bot designer!)

If at any point you had a mindset where you'd treat the forum like a dumping ground by worthlessly copy/pasting other people's posts in order to make a tiny amount of money, then my default reaction is GTFO, and you have quite an uphill battle to earn even a 2-year sigban instead. No warnings, no statute of limitations.

I know of one case where someone was banned for plagiarism in the recent massacre, but a very careful reading of the context showed that the person actually did just forget to quote, and by "quoting" the post they were expressing an actual point even if it constituted their entire post. This person was unbanned without any sigban, since this isn't plagiarism.