Lauda is a proven scammer, extortionist and trust abuser
He might be everything you said above but that doesn't warrant a ban, does that? C'mon, we are talking about his plagiarism and ban, that mustn't be compared with what he is.
Well stop telling lies about his great contribution to the forum that should mitigate his punishment.
Proven scammers are net negative end of
Theymos has said and as any reasonable person would understand that " plagiarism " covers a wide and varied set of behavior and intentions all involving copy and paste
Sensible consideration of the full context of the member and situation is required to arrive at the correct action to be taken.
People claiming lauda is net positive are telling lies. I will debunk those lies whenever I see them.
Fine if we are not banning for plagiarism now then fine but he must have 10yr sig ban and no making money from the forum from escrow or any other rev streams and kept entirely away from DT.
These are attempts to distract attention from the the main meaning - plagiarism. They will lie again and again, order linguistic expertise, and so on. But the fact remains that this is PLAGIARISM! Some are truly useful for the forum users have been permanently banned for over a fewer number of plagiarism.