Re: Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here. Mods: please give temp or permban as needed

Quote from: n0nce on March 26, 2022, 05:39:50 PM

In the distance of seconds, someone posted a vote in the community awards, deleted it and posted it again with a different account.
Seems like someone is using a secondary account to have a second signature to earn off of and somehow switched up which account to use.

That wasn't the brightest thing to do, when posting names of many users who use a notification bot Tongue

But since it's not plagiarism, it belongs in Known Alts of any-one - A User Generated List Mk III (2022 Q1). But the discussion is here now, so I'll respond in this topic.

Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on Today at 05:44:51 AM

you violated the merit sharing rule with your alternate account.

I don't think it's a forum rule. Allow me to quote theymos (he was talking to a Merit source here);

Quote from: theymos on October 21, 2018, 02:28:55 PM

If a DT member tags you for something stupid involving merit (ie. probably anything less than selling merit), then they're not going to be a DT member for much longer.

And about the Trust system:

Quote from: theymos on January 30, 2020, 09:13:15 PM

The system is for handling trade risk, not for flagging people for good/bad posts/personalities/ideas.
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- Leave negative ratings if you actively think that trading with the person is less safe than with a random person.

It's certainly not done to Merit your own alt, and shows not the best morals, but I also don't think it's worth ruining an account of an otherwise okay user.
All in all it's a tiny amount of Merit anyway:

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Quote from: naim027 on Today at 06:44:29 AM

But, after 5-6 days, somehow I saw a discussion about merit abuse and I realized what I have done. I immediately stopped at the same time. If you check the logs, I have sent the last merit four months ago and all of them were in the same week.

This sounds plausible. You stopped Meriting your alt the moment you realized it's frowned upon. Even though you had more opportunities, you didn't self-Merit again.

Based on this, I don't think this deserves negative feedback. I think neutral would fit better. I'll make a Neutral tag myself.

I'm more surprised by the choice of username: Dic3L0v3r Cheesy

Quote from: Ratimov on Today at 07:01:12 AM

but were afraid to tell the community about it honestly.

That's not surprising: Bitcointalk can be quite harsh, especially for Newbies.