Quote from: The Pharmacist on September 08, 2021, 09:46:27 PM

Quote from: Pmalek on September 06, 2021, 06:48:44 PM

Quote from: KingsDen on September 06, 2021, 12:55:34 PM

5. MOST importantly, I have a proposal that to every newbie, there should be a warning "Do Not Copy/Paste other people’s work without Citing". This warning will remain at the top of the newbies page immediately after the menu bar. Maybe until the newbie will become a Jr member before it can be removed.

Many good ideas have been proposed already, including welcome messages of various forms, but nothing is happening on that front.

I think KingDen's idea is a pretty good one myself, and suchmoon suggested something very similar recently:

Quote from: suchmoon on September 04, 2021, 06:01:41 PM

If a simple sentence was added to the "Post reply" / "Start new topic" page next to the "Post" button, e.g. "don't make low value unnecessary posts and make sure to add links/quotes if you copied text written by someone else", I think that would significantly help users who don't really intend to plagiarize, but perhaps don't know (cultural differences and whatnot) that unreferenced copypasta is not cool, or forget to format it properly.

If either suggestion were implemented, newbies would have absolutely no excuse and no grounds for appeal if they posted someone else's words without crediting them. And given that the problem is extensive and has been going on for so long and that it would probably be an easy thing to do, why not do it? Seriously, how much coding would Theymos or whoever have to do to insert a warning like that?

There are many solutions, I guess it will affect some of the rights, they do not welcome this kind of improvement. There are always more solutions than difficulties. Bitcoin is derived from consensus. In fact, it is completely based on the trust in the Bitcoin white paper and economic model, as well as the underlying technology of the blockchain, but in the Bitcoin forum, don't test humanity. As long as you are a person, you have selfishness. Don't say how noble you are, I won't listen. For decentralized Bitcoin, there is also a semi-centralized Bitcoin forum. It is not difficult to formulate the rules of the game, the key is whether it affects the interests of some people. I don't want to mention the name. I hate them. Ratimov once said that this forum only has 10% original content, including himself of course. The others are all quotes. This is not a small probability event, especially the quotes of some pictures. If calculated based on plagiarism, then the forum will be closed directly. All the problems are only superficial. The essence is that because some people are more influential in the forum, they like the power in their hands, and they are not considering the problem from the perspective of the development of the forum. The forum’s freedom of speech is not real from time to time. I am not slandering their efforts, but I do not approve of their actions.