Previously, users were permanently banned for a single copied sentence, even if it happened years before being caught (which was imho the wrong approach). Now, spammers are not being banned even after multiple plagiarism cases and this coincides with decreased forum activity.
My guess is that maybe he's realized how much the forum's activity has drastically dropped and, that could be as a result of making a user behind an already made account, say a hero member to suffer the consequences of their ignorance? Mind you, this isn't about an unrepented plagiarist...
I can also back that up; Cyrus created a thread to revive accounts that weren't banned for very complex reasons and y'all know about it. What does that say to you?