It may be strange attitude to you, but I've learned to live with it. Yes, common curtesy would be good, but 99% of online users lack it.
Besides, i doubt the OP wrote his bounty thread without looking how other BM's did it before him.
Are you saying that changing of styling would make it better? If i copied it and changed the font to red, would that be ok? No, i dont think it would.
No, and I don't think changing the font would fix the thing. I just pointed out that this is a rather obvious copy-paste case.
I agree that the OP probably took 'inspiration' from someone else's work, maybe even copied bits and peaces, but that's not the point here. Just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's okay.
Is there rules or pointers on plagiarism in this forum? I think there should be.
There are no official instructions, but tbct_mt2 wrote some good pointers:
[TIPS] to avoid plagiarismAnd as for the rules, things are pretty clear:
- Plagiarism: If you copy some text from somewhere, then you should have a good reason for it, and you must link to the source. Doing otherwise is plagiarism. Changing a few words around doesn't matter. If we find that you plagiarized, then you absolutely will be permanently banned, even if we find it years after you did it.