Quote from: Rikafip on Today at 08:35:03 AM

Quote from: BitcoinGirl.Club on Today at 05:48:06 AM

May be I messed up my memory but as far as I remember the plagiarism thing happened a long time ago and after discovering it we also passed long years. When Lauda asked for banning herself, at that time there were nothing existed, she was doing well and the good bye thread came just suddenly. Again I may messed up my memory, after all I am ageing 🤣

Iirc plagiarized posts were made in 2015 and they were discovered in 2020 so yeah I think you are right. And then few months after the discovery, Lauda decided to leave the forum . Since he didn't get any sort of ban in the meantime I am not so sure that was the main reason for leaving. Unless he felt kinda embarrassed with all that mess since he was very strict when other plagiarized and decided to leave.

I believe this may explain why Lauda was not banned (again) in 2020:

Quote from: Lauda on May 21, 2020, 11:55:42 AM

You may not be aware of this, but I was banned several times for the infractions made during my earlier time on the forum.

At the same time, when Lauda plagiarized, there was no rule against plagiarism. Yes, believe it or not, there was no such rule:

Quote from: nullius on May 23, 2020, 12:58:54 AM

Quote from: mprep on July 30, 2016, 02:04:21 PM

Added new rule with an explanation (as per hilariousandco's suggestion):

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33. Posting plagiarized content is not allowed.[e]

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33. This includes both copying parts or the entirety of other users' posts or threads and copying content from external sources (e.g. other websites) and passing it as your own.

The absence of any anti-plagiarism rule from the list in the time period up to 10 May 2015 is confirmed by the earliest available archive.org snapshot, which, by coincidence, was made several hours after the latest post in question.

Therefore this may be another reason for the absence of the ban: there was no such punishment in 2015, when Lauda plagiarized; the anti-plagiarism rule was implemented in 2016.

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on Today at 09:09:12 AM

Stephen Gornick never asked me to remove that feedback as far as I know. I probably should, since it was so long ago but I have mixed feelings about it. Judging from his other feedback he looks to be a chronic seller of accounts of various types. Or at least was when he was last active here.[/list]

Well, at least, we still have something good from this topic, as you remembered about this user and you decided to remove that negative feedback