I don’t understand why it is even necessary for a third party to run a bot to detect plagiarism. If most cases are as simple as theymos describes, finding plagiarism should be as simple as a database query. This is especially true if the goal is to detect all cases of plagiarism in which exactly the entire post was copied, but slightly more advanced queries could be done to find more tricky cases of plagiarism.

The above would remove any question of someone being targeted because of something they said or their stance in a dispute. It should also allow us to detect ~all cases of plagiarism and should be able to do so moving forward in real time.

No, I don’t trust suchmoon to not intentionally target someone (or avoiding checking/reporting someone) based on who they are or what their stances are, or whose side they take, etc.