Ratimov once said something about that which somehow put editing for citation on the right and I understood why. Trying to right your wrongs isn't such a bad thing, is it. Here was my response to that;
Mpamaegbu behaved strangely. He began to write explanations here but did not find the time to quickly correct the situation with this problematic post, at least delete it if the authorship is not clear. Enough time has been given. At least 1 user thought to fix the situation with their plagiarism and added a link.
Perhaps he behaved in some unlikely way and maybe not the best way to have contained the situation but, if I were to take a position in his shoes and think as he might have taught, I feel, he was waiting on someone to have suggested that for a solution to him. Perhaps, he didn't want to act too smart and the edited post raises another pointy finger at him or something,
Here was the pointy finger manifestation. So, it doesn't matter where you turn, its about who is raising the alarm.
Plagiarism is a no just course for anyone and I understand why the forum fights it so much. Bitcointalk is a forum that treasures originality and the crypto community hnags on trusts between parties. If you aren't virtuous enough to credit the sources of a content for which you got a valuable information, how then can you be a trust worthy person. I'm just saying!
I checked up the meaning of plagiarism lately in the Merriam Websters dictionary and it made perfect sense. The meaning was more incriminating than the copy and paste without citation portrays. I'll paste it here. Merriam Websters dictionary definition of plagiarism/plagiarizing; Transitive verb: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source.
As an intransitive verb: to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
Note the words: "steal" and "theft". Sometimes, we don't realize this is what we do each time we plagiarize. Well, some plagiarism could be unintention and we ought to own our mistakes. After all, we are here to learn and learn we would still. Let's deal honorably and maintain the decorum of bitcointalk. We good!