…once you catch them doing something stupid, they won’t give up. They will become smarter and try the same cheat again but using a more complicated way this time.
Ok, I have to say that whatever unpleasant opinion I had about Ratimov I was still way way too kind to him. I thought that after he got caught plagiarising he would surely have learned something, like maybe to include links. Well, he surely learned how to not get caught:
Called it.
And I didn’t even mean ratimov because i am not particularly interested in this topic but i ve seen this happening a lot before.
If the mistake was a very early one, the user may learn to fix the problem. If not, it is possible that the user knew about it and did it anyway. Which means he is likely to do it in the future.