If there's been any change as far as giving complete newbies who start off their bitcointalk "career" plagiarizing the content of others, it's news to me. And that would be a huge step backward, IMO.
I second that, but honestly i doubt there is any of such change cause if there was, i think the forum would be updated on that, especially for users who take out their time to fish out such plagiarised contents, thus i am thinking maybe this is just a normal delay that can happen, maybe no mod has as of yet picked up the case, but it is something that's inevitable.
No doubt it's a headache, but mods pretty much always ignored ban appeals anyway, so what changed?
That's correct, and i can't imagine ban appeals being the issue here, i mean it is allowed on the forum, a user has the right to create another account to appeal their ban and can only post on that appeal topic with such account, so there is no way mods would prefer not to ban a user who plagiarised cause they can choose to appeal the ban, no chance in hell that is the problem here, if any even.