I'm thinking if stealing of infographics with or without a source is considered as plagiarism?
Without a source - definitely plagiarism. With a source - not plagiarism, but kind scummy in my opinion.
Simply copy and pasting someone else's work, adding nothing of your own, and slapping a reference link on the bottom, whilst not plagiarism is pretty low behavior my opinion. You see it all the time across the forum people posting entire news articles, blog posts, medium posts, etc., written by someone else, and not even adding a single sentence of their own thoughts. The same thing could happen with infographics, although it is much less common than the other categories I mentioned. Providing a source means they won't get banned, but I still think it's a pretty scummy thing to do and obviously only for padding post count and/or fishing for merits.
Yeah, but still the forum itself is allowing that method. Many users are already doing it to gain activities, posts, and merits. It's the dumbest way to maintain themselves as good posters and the worse part here is doing it and gain some merits with less effort. That's my point when I've said earlier that this is the
easiest way to receive something. A thread should have good content and discussion, I can't call this a thread if those posts aren't created by their own brain cells.