Quote from: kxwhalexk on Today at 04:41:51 PM

Quote from: The Pharmacist on Today at 01:59:24 PM

OK, so it sounds like kxwhalexk did not, in fact, commit plagiarism. That's good to know, as I wasn't going to merit any of his posts until I found out whether he was going to get banned for it or not--and there was at least one post of his that I thought was good enough to merit.

Misunderstandings happen, and they happen even more frequently when there's a language barrier. But it sounds like the forum is important to kxwhalexk, so I'm actually happy he didn't break that most sacred of rules and get himself a permaban.

Thank you for your trust, time will prove my love and loyalty to the forum!

Quote from: icopress on Today at 01:14:06 PM

I was a little confused in your statements

In fact, I encountered some calculation confusion. There was something wrong with my final check. I did not get the same result for the two signatures. I want to make sure again that the formula used is correct. As you said, I posted in the wrong way. In the future, I will post my own questions directly instead of quoting from the article. I have disclosed my email and TG. If you are interested, please PM me and I will take a high-definition picture for you. I really hope that we can clear up this misunderstanding and become friends. By the way, I will reread the rules. Thank you very much!

Some of your word choices come off as a bit awkward, strange and even fail to capture the kinds of relationships that many members attempt to establish in a forum like this.

Sure some members do get to know each other, and sure some members do send trust ratings and even trust feedback based on their interactions with members - but these are not likely anything related to love or like or to be friends - but instead maybe just attempting to make representations regarding if someone is good for their word in terms of possibly trading or doing business or holding/transmitting value.

Another aspect is merit, which frequently will deal with how helpful, thought provoking or entertaining members find other members posts to be - of course, there are likely subjective components regarding either using aspects of the trust system and even providing feed back, and sure merit source members are going to have some additional requirements not to be abusive with their sending of merits. Of course, there are certain values in accumulating merits, too in terms of being able to get into signature campaigns or otherwise potentially having more credibility on the forum.

Of course, I cannot speak for other forum members, and sure it can take a while for forum members to get to know aspects of each other whether through posting of information, engaging in trades, participating in signature campaigns or other interactions. Sometimes when trust is lost or flags are raised based on interactions, it can take time to recover from those kinds of hits - or some members will just end up losing credibility too.. so your choices about how to go forward can make differences -including that some members might be nice to you, but still develop suspicions if your position is all over the place or you are changing your own posts without adequate explanations.. so I cannot really tell you what practices are better because many of your actions and word choices are discretionary.. and if you might be getting misunderstood in English, it may well be better post less frequently in English to attempt to make sure that you are not all over the place in terms of your words and your actions.

Quote from: kxwhalexk on Today at 04:41:51 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on Today at 04:04:58 AM

@kxwhalexk There's nothing wrong with not knowing English very well or even quoting various aspects of the works (including English) of other persons or other places on the internet. If you quote anything lengthy from someone else (perhaps even a whole sentence), then you should give attributions. or provide a link regarding from where you got the material or explanation that actually might say something similar that you want to say, but you feel that the material or explanation makes the point better than you would (or could).

My English is college level. But without a phonetic environment, I might just read some daily magazines. I have no ability to read articles with high expertise such as blockchain, so I have to catch Google Translate. I also use Google Translate for some of my regular posts.

I have seen some members improve their English a lot through the years of posting on the forum.. and like I mentioned above sometimes, it might be better to not be trying to present too many complicated ideas, and some things (actions or contradictory posts or contradictory actions) are NOT going to be easily explained away merely by saying that there might have been some language related issues.

Quote from: kxwhalexk on Today at 04:41:51 PM

In the future, if you need to quote the text, I will definitely add the source! Thanks for reminding me!

It's a good habit to try to do that, and sometimes members find information on the internet or they get their information from unclear sources (like you mentioned if it may have been a translation of a translation), and sometimes just explaining that you are not sure where the ideas came from, but they were not your own.. can be helpful too... ... You may consider that forum admins might not immediately decide to suspend or ban you, but they might decide to take actions at a later date or consider your case to NOT rise to quite a high enough level of egregiousness (like Loyce had mentioned) - especially if there might be some confusion regarding what happened, how it happened and then if there might be other examples of your postings that are more than just seeming slip ups... Of course, your explanation and also assertion that you are going to fix matters could help in some circumstances - but might not be enough to guarantee that admins won't do anything about the matter... even if they might not act right away.