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Re: Is quoting a copied content plagiarism?
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Pmalek
on 15/09/2021, 11:50:10 UTC
⭐ Merited by igehhh (1) ,Rockstarguy (1)
If you put something in quotes, it's quite clear that you are not pretending that the content is originally yours. However, you are still not giving credit to the person who wrote it. So you put yourself in a grey area where you probably won't have any problems, but if the deciding admin sees it differently, you might have some. To avoid that, just post the link where you got the quote from. Personally, I don't think a member should be banned if the copy-pasted text is in quote brackets.

Being more practical, I know there is (or at least there was)  a bot that crawled the forum posts looking for plagiarism. I think this bot might catch this kind of user and ban him.
Bots can't ban anyone. All they can do is report problematic posts to whoever the bots were programmed to report to. Those reports will be manually checked by the admins before a decision to ban is made.