Some plagiarism seems very hard to pinpoint. I saw posts that seem like plagiarism but come from Full Member with a lot of merits or high-rank users like you said. It seems like plagiarism to me because there is a stark difference between their posts on certain topics like sport or soccer, etc vs posts when they address people's opinions and discuss topics on the bitcointalk.
Plagiarism is idea-steal without credit to original authors.
Many types of plagiarism.
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is it plagiarism?-
New sort of plagiarism-
Text spinning/disguised plagiarism