I have assembled a few quotes from theymos. Bold added by me throughout. Italics present in originals.
For it to plagiarism, you have to have the intention of passing the text off as an original work by you. In all of these recent cases (unless we make a mistake, which is rare), it's extremely obvious in context that the person is copy/pasting to make money. Usually they're copy/pasting someone else's post and not adding anything else, in fact, which makes it very clear.
Plagiarism is what gets people permabanned, not just copying. Plagiarism is copying with the intent of passing the work off as your own.
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I cannot think of how one could show the "intent of passing work off as one's own" any more than an opening sentence like this.
From an academic point of view, any thesis with this degree of non-original wording would be pointed out, and the author would by all means fail his thesis.
the plagiarist would be expelled from university and permanently blacklisted from admissions.
The path forward is decided then. Submitting a Google translated article in its entirety,
even with a link at the bottom would get you expelled from a university, no questions asked.
Anything that'd get you expelled from a university for plagiarism (which all of the above-banned examples would) will get you permabanned from this forum, regardless of your rank.
If someone copy/pasted something that was amazingly high-quality and on-topic, I'd understand more (though you'd still get banned)
Here, really original content, maybe 10%, the rest is all a copy-paste of finished materials or partial use of someone else's material.
This is eye opening. Thinking that 90% of content here is plagiarized speaks volumes to his character, is at odds with the purpose of the forum, and is a truly pathetic excuse.