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I would give them the permaban after a second time. I mean you plagiarize, they catch you they warn you or give you a tamporari ban and you go and plagiarize a second time? For me waiting for a third would be too lenient. The second time you can no longer say that you did not know that plagiarizing was forbidden, or something like that.
Tbh, I never report a single case of plagiarism. Instead, I always PM the user to do the right thing and put such user on watch for a while to see if he's a plagiarist or if the one time was just a mistake. But, yes, the second time is too much.
Wouldn't it make more sense for one of the mods to come out and address the latest plagiarism rules rather than leaving us with so many assumptions over the last few months?
@Halab addressed that yesterday and it seems like there are no official rules or policy regarding plagiarism.
Often I find reporters are very strict, you cross outside the crosswalk, you go to jail !!.
Is Halab really blaming the reporters for doing a good job? There is nothing wrong with issuing a temban for first-time plagiarism; we simply wanted to know why our reports were rejected and why some users are banned for first-time plagiarism while others are not.
Therefore, the purity of the forum and other beautiful words remains only "on paper". There is an idea of the beauty of the forum, but there is no desire to make it so.
It's always easier said than done, and while everyone's attention is focused on the new forum software, one thing is certain: if nothing works here, nothing will happen there either.
Anyone who loves and wants to keep his topic clean should make it self-moderated because the mods have become less active these days;
Self-moderated threads do not solve the problem of plagiarism, but they definitely make sense to fight spam.
That's exactly what I meant when I said that instead of reporting all cases of spam to moderators.