Re: Ratimov is deleting self-moderated topics. He now goes onto my Ignore list.
Since the appearance of your topic, I personally have deleted no more than 30 topics. Don't forget that the Russian section has two moderators. So no need to attribute to me what is not there (nepotism, etc).
For the record: I didn't blame you for deleting those shitposts 
Yes, nobody should suspect any nepotism between Xal0lex and Ratimov, since he deleted "only" 30 topics oit of 78 (almost 40%).
If you think Mods do something wrong, that may be worth a topic in Meta.I think you didn't see my edit:
It's quite normal for a Merit source to Merit someone when they use the same local board. I don't expect the posts to be bad, so it's not wrong.
mods probably won't be enforcing plagiarism rules on an image
There's a good reason for it, e.g. you don't want to start handing out bans for memes and twitter screenshots, and in many contexts it's quite obvious that the image serves as a quote and/or has a built-in reference via the URL.Below is the answer by mprep (Global Moderator).
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Quote from: icopress
33. Posting plagiarized content is not allowed.[e] - Does this rule apply to images?
Quote from: mprep
AFAIK no, it doesn't apply to images.