Lucius hit the nail on the head. Posting something and pretending it's yours, is plagiarism. The rest is not. (Which doesn't mean that the rest might not be violating some other rule.)

There is however no difference between countries. Plagiarism is plagiarism and the definition of plagiarism does not change if you're in an other country.

Surely some countries have laws or no laws or flexible laws or unenforceable laws or whatever terminology fits you to try to act as if you didn't know you were breaking the rules. But even if your country doesn't punish plagiarism, the definition of plagiarism is VERY clear.

Because if you don't know the definition of plagiarism, then how can you tell your country is flexible towards plagiarism?


So I'd suggest everyone to quit the useless pseudo intellectual discussions about countries, cultures and definitions, and to get to the point:

1. you copy-paste something that's clearly not yours: a photo of Brad Pitt or Britney Spears? An article from the New York Times or Yahoo Finance? A Youtube clip of Michael Jackson's Billie Jean? If it's clearly not yours, it is common policy to post a source, and if you don't, it's generally frowned upon. You should do this especially for written posts and articles, because in general it's less evident that the post is a copypaste.
(for instance, in the case of images, virtually 99% of all photos posted on this forum are considered non-plagiarizing copypasting, and most of the time quoting a source is not necessary, simply because it is so obvious that you are not the original author of that content)
>> this is not plagiarism, but this doesn't mean your post doesn't violate any other forum rules like zero value, burstposting, spamming etc.


2. you copy-paste someone else's work and pretend it to be yours: this is plagiarism. By definition it's intentional. "Unintentional plagiarism" does not exist and is a contradictio in terminis. Your intent has to be proven and this explains why mods are very careful before (temp-)banning someone for plagiarism.


Sure, there may be differences between individual countries' legal approach, flexibility and punishment of plagiarism, but there is no difference in the definition of plagiarism. Therefore, your culture, country or origin never counts as an excuse or a justification for plagiarism.

Before you guys get too optimistic about the next ATH...








You have been warned.

Thx for those Merits, guys - which was absolutely not the intention of my post: I haven't been in any sig campaign for a long time now, so if you've sent them purely as a token of real merit, I appreciate them all the more.

Since posting ^ I can't seem to resist reminiscing about these last years though, especially when I realized I've spent a major part of my spare time in this community.

The nutildah-III transfer is one of those numerous memorable moments from the last 4 years. Originally meant as a joke but (and maybe therefore) still worn with pride. You do know that I still consider this to be the first NFT transfer ever on this forum, and I think it's about time we had a talk with the Guinness book of world records....

Another memory that pops into my mind spontaneously are the panic and controversy during the implication of the Merit system, at the end of 2017/beginning of 2018. Quite funny to look back at it now.

Watching several people on this forum (especially in this WO thread) realize their dreams thanks to their strong beliefs and support for BTC (some of you for almost a decade) has been a true and sincere heart-warming experience and I could feel and enjoy their excitement as well, even though we don't even know each other at all IRL.

Hodling has been my credo for a very long time now, too, although the peaks have sometimes made it a major challenge to resist the call of a quick selling... Professional obligations don't leave me time enough to really dive into analysis and trading, so the few times I tried to trade (with very modest amounts), have been highly stressful (and highly unsuccessful) experiences... "Why would you sell if you don't need the money" was therefore a statement coming from this WO community, that was as simple as it was eye-opening. If I'm not mistaken, I haven't moved a single sat since.

Minor frustration: not being able to find a successful way of keeping the Dutch boards viable, in spite of several efforts and sincere attempts.

So there you have it. I wrote my life story after all. Shame on me. #homo

No more new posts for over a month now. Could this be the end of it?

Damn, celebrating 4 year membership of this community! Time flies when you're having a ball (or two).

Could this be the right time to open a few threads in the Meta, Beginners and Reputation boards to teach people a few valuable lessons about my experience on the forum, and receive a million billion trillion Merits?

Fugg no.

Very Meritable raffle. I hardly ever check this part of the forum and seeing those goodies I do regret that now.

Thx for your effort for this community OP!

Don't bother, OP's only trying to boost his activity whilst hoping to gain a few lost Merits here and there.

I wonder if he pays taxes on his Bitvest bounty..... 

So you're saying you like taxes?

Kraken down? I'm astonished to see there hasn't been any panic selling yet.

I concur. Was zo onder de indruk van de nuchterheid van zijn eerste analyses dat ik ze zelfs heb doorgestuurd naar mensen die (nog) niet gestart waren met crypto maar wel al stonden te likkebaarden.

Blijft toch een van de monumenten van dit forum.

(maar jij ook hoor Dude  )

We're going down.

What is it this time?

Quite incredible how after all these months of being warned for your plagiarism and cheating, you still succeed in making enemies all over these boards...

You're big mouthing now and you'll be crying and apologizing like a baby in a few hours, like you've been doing since the very first day you and your alts were active on these boards.

Posting the content of PMs is once more another thing which is seriously frowned upon on these boards.

If you'd spend even a fraction of your time participating in this community instead of purely hunting for crypto, you'd have known that by now.

Just saw this. RIP John.



(from flemish newspaper De Tijd / "Time")

Am I the only one still following up on this case?

The latest liquidators' report is online: read it here

TLDR? Don't worry, I read it for you, so in a nutshell:

- around 70% of almost 1 mio users have in some way interacted with the liquidator's platform
- KYC is up and running and if you had any coins on Cryptopia, this is the moment to act or lose them forever - that is, if you're prepared to KYC
- to compensate costs, 80 BTC was sold for fiat towards the end of February

What's with the Concordium/GTU shit? Can't turn your back for half a month on this thing or you're out of touch in the blink of an eye.........

Btw I have used my weeks of non-forum time to do some FA, TA and math (call me old-fashioned) am happy to announce that according to my calculations, the next stop for BTC will be: one trillion billion dollars.

Last time I mention this dude.

PS: I'm on the way of being rich again.

What the hell am I missing?

I was (and am) planning to buy a significant amount at an amount that is within reach, but I'd never have thought that we'd actually get there again...

Well then.

Buy the dip guys.

Dude, will you never learn:

If Hungary's got some place left, give this dude ^ a statue too.

Isn't this where we were before Musk started tweeting a few months ago? If so, this position is exactly where we should be to have a healthy normally evolving not-too-volatile-to-scare-regular-adaptors-away price.

Too much volatility like (most of) the last 2 months will never get BTC out of the speculation zone and into the adoption zone.