As I myself observed further up the thread, the problem with the merits is not with the senders—to the contrary! I myself almost sent merit to this post. I would have felt cheated if I had. It is one of the reasons why I am focused on this topic—one of many good reasons.
N.b. the merits from reputable users, who would not knowingly merit a copy-paste. As I noted earlier, I had intended to merit it myself, and to make a thoughtful reply.
Why is this post not showing up? It seems still to be available; and I have not received any notification of a deleted post. But it does not show on the thread. Is there now an actual shadow-ban function on this forum?
I believe that this succinctly illustrates the problem with Ratimov’s copy-paste jobs:
We don't give a shit what your particular definition of plagiarism is.
That wasn’t
my definition of plagiarism, you self-made nutcase.
I copied and pasted that definition of plagiarism from Yale.EDU. Wasn’t it
obvious? 
So, I guess that you “don’t give a shit” what Yale University tells its faculty and students about plagiarism. That is acceptable: There is no reason for anyone to give a shit about
your opinion. (Drop the presumptuous “we”. It is obviously not a royal “we”, for there is nothing royal about you; and it cannot be an editorial “we”, for you are an awful writer.)
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Lets all start google translating articles from other languages and opening new topics.
^^^ This. Sums it up.