Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on Today at 08:11:31 AM

Heh? I'm saying that arguing for any kind of signature ban, even if it's temporary (and I doubt it'd be that short) would drive the member to create a new account to start earning money with--and you acknowledged that the latter half of that statement is true.

What I wanted to say is that imho signature ban makes sense if offender did one time mistake (which I believe can happen out of ignorance or some other reason), but if plagiarising posts is something that he does on the regular basis (like it was case here) then there's no point of giving him signature ban because we are not talking about genuine member here who did one time mistake but instead about someone who is only interested in making money out of forum.

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on Today at 08:11:31 AM

So why dole out any signature ban?

Because there were cases (not gonna name them here but I think people know who I am talking about) in the past where legit members did some stupid mistake while they were new members (their plagiarism was discovered years later) and instead of giving them perma ban, they got signature ban, continued being active during duration of signature ban showing that they are legit members who are not here solely for signature payout and are now one of the more respected members and scambusters around.

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on Today at 08:11:31 AM

By the way, I haven't been looking at too many ban appeal threads lately and don't have a sense of what the mods are doing in the way of punishment for plagiarism. Are they actually handing out signature bans? Has anyone received one?

Tbh, I haven't noticed anyone getting signature ban in the last couple of years.