What is considered as plagiarism on the forum is not new, and has been going on for
ages on the forum. In fact, the rule was roughly introduced around 2016:
The probable main reasons for plagiarism boil down to:
- Creating a post to increase Activity (perhaps more before than nowadays).
- Creating a post to create a false sense of being knowledgeable.
- Creating a post to try to earn Merits.
- Some may be trying to honestly help, by bringing content from elsewhere, but are not aware/forget that they should always reference the source.
- To make up for a lack of command in a given language.
The difficult thing is when one gets ban by plagiarizing a good article or compilation of article but did forget to write down the references. I think modz do not have any consideration whether you are a quality poster (earned some merits) they still ban them. The mods are strictly does not allowed plagiarized content here.
Just for an example the Daniel_stev user was a quality poster but was ban for plagiarism. I do not know if he just copy or paste content intentionally or it was just a mistake that he forgets to mention or posts the reference below.
So, in oder not to get ban simply acknowledge the owner of the article by posting the reference either being qouted or mention or other ways are by posting sources below the post.