May I make an out-of-the-box suggestion? I've suggested before that plagiarists can get an out-of-jail-card if they report a few higher ranking members for plagiarism. This gives plagiarists the chance to redeem themselves: they contribute to the forum, and lower the total amount of plagiarism. Within official forum rules this doesn't work, but if all involved parties agree, it can work here.
My proposal @The Pharmacist and @Rambotnic would be:
1. Rambotnic
reports at least 2 users for plagiarism. To prevent abuse, the users need to have a higher account rating than Rambotnic (253 Activity or higher; Member or higher).
2. Once confirmed (and banned), The Pharmacist removes the red trust on Rambotnic.
Actually i report threads/people for much serious problems than plagiarism
I report threads/people and suggest newbies to stay safe and use escrow.
No matter my badly credited thread can't harm people, other people trying to harm people by scamming them
I do report scammers or potential/obvious ones by exposing their intentions.
Some of you may tell my warnings/suggests to people to use escrow and such as spam, but believe me i'm pretty sure they saved at least one innocent person so far
And based on the angry OP's which turn against me instead of proving me wrong, i was 100% in the right time and right place.
I hope Pharmacist will never agree on something like that, but i also hope that he is human like everyone else and understand people do mistakes sometime like my case.
We all should deserve second chance, especially in cases like mine which people could not be harmed with my information but only get some help.
Also everyone around using their own powers by their own view and 99,99% of them do not follow the rules strictly.
After doing that mistake, i read the un-official rules few times and i can see that many many people being red tagged for something not violating the rules - buying/selling accounts.
I'm not involved in any activity like that and i don't really care about any sales of that type but if its allowed by the rules, why people break the rules by tagging them?
That's theme for another thread but just trying to point that my "mistake" is far away from the bad things people do around.