Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 07:37:55 AM

Quote from: Poker Player on July 04, 2022, 06:47:27 AM

As the rules are unofficial...

Actually the rules are official, but the sticky thread and list in Meta is unofficial. It seems really weird saying this. Maybe the Bitcointalk governing body didn't give it's approval for the list to be official Tongue

. The title of the thread says "Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules".

Pmalek are the rules really official? I do not think they are, if they aren't "hard rules" i wouldn't refer to them as being completely official. On the topic, the reason why the mods might be lenient on plagiarism cases could be because Theymos himself is for leniency and for cases to be handled or considered individually.

Quote from: theymos on November 17, 2018, 06:49:10 PM

In general, I'm all for being lenient. There are users who have been temp banned many times but still haven't been permabanned because their contributions outweigh their misbehavior. I actively disbelieve in the idea of a "rule of law" where hard rules exist and are strictly applied across the board as if we're all robots. Every case should be considered individually in the context of the forum's mission.