I knew I will get this question. So, I immediately started searching for the post. It takes 50 Minutes to find this post. Here it is,
Thanks, I appreciate the effort!
I'd say it makes a lot of sense: people shouldn't get banned if they corrected their own mistake.
While I do agree that people shouldn't immediately get banned for plagiarism (imho signature ban is more appropriate, at least for the first time), I disagree that they should plagiarize without consequences if they are fast enough to delete reported post which ain't that hard if you are using notification bot.
While certain percentage of plagiarism is probably done due ignorance (people being on the forum for the first time etc) or it was an honest mistake, I think that vast majority is intentional, like in @Mr.right85 case. Just few months before he started plagiarizing he was talking about it in in his self-congratulatory thread, meaning he knew what he was doing and what were the consequences of his action. Imho, in his case signature ban could be enough, but not to go without consequences like he did.
Never be in a haste
The need to earn merits and rank up is certainly one of the major goals of most newbies on the forum and also, this goal has proven to be the major reasons why most newbies have seen there end rather too early on the forum. Being too hasty makes you want to seek out shortcuts. Shortcuts that makes you want to break the rules and go into acts like plagiarism and spamming. The next, you've succumbed to laziness which develops on you and discourages any form of creativity within you. Unfortunately, the forum rules never bends for anyone and as it is with law breakers, you eventually get caught and is shown the way out.