Quote from: Lucius on January 26, 2020, 03:01:25 PM

Someone asked if offering such a tool was the same as plagiarizing, and so far the answer is no.

It was me, and I really think the answer should be "yes".

theymos has made is views on plagiarizers pretty clear multiple times:

Quote from: theymos on November 17, 2018, 06:49:10 PM

In essentially all cases, plagiarism deserves a permaban because it usually proves definitively that the person is here for the wrong reasons: to fill up space in order to get paid, not to actually discuss or contribute.

Quote from: theymos on December 11, 2018, 08:53:13 PM

I have no respect for anyone who would even think of plagiarizing in the way that these people do. They don't belong here.

Quote from: theymos on May 20, 2019, 10:53:59 PM

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.

Plagiarizers have the wrong mindset. Their mindset is that of using the forum as their own personal "dumping ground" to earn some useless tokens. Someone who not only shares that kind of mindset, but actively encourages it among others by giving away a tool to make it both easier to plagiarize and harder for us to moderate it, is an order of magnitude worse than the plagiarizers themselves.

This user deserves a permaban.