The user was probably aware but is hoping for mercy because he admitted guilt. Ultimately it's up to the manager what happens, but I think people found guilty of this should be excluded from campaigns for a certain period of time. Hard lesson but 1 that needs taught.
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I agree with you, the best way to penalize such users is to not allow them to participate in signature campaigns for at least 2 weeks as a first time disciplinary measure, if a user still does that after that penalization than a long term punishment is a necessary action for those type of users. However, I don't think that a manager would accept such participants in their campaigns again who broke the rules. I'm not against that favor, but a manager might not agree to allow such users because they don't want their reputation to be ruined once again.

In my opinion everyone who does a mistake for first time should be given a chance if the mistake is not of a damaging nature. The user has done an inappropriate act and is guilty for that, he's also asking for mercy because he knows that the act he has done wasn't a good thing. The best advice to bbigtart is to stop relying on ChatGPT and other such AI tools that can generate the text based on the questions. Do your own research and learn the topics deeply first and then answer it with proper knowledge and understanding without using artificial intelligence tools.