I'll show an example of
my accidental plagiarism:
Post 57872251 (by LoyceV) (scraped on Mon Sep 6 11:32:55 CEST 2021):
I have to disagree with you on this one. If Dean unilaterally changed the terms of the BKB tokens, you would have a breach of contract claim against him.[ /quote]
I didn't type that, I made a mistake editing the quote. Of course mistakes can happen, and in most cases I can
quickly edit it. But it also happens I don't have time to reread my post.
With 17,000 posts, someone dedicated enough might find a smoking gun.
Quoting myself:
I'm always thinking: what if it happens to me someday? ~
Recently, I was typing jibberish and totally messing up quotes when I had a fever, and as a family with young kids and busy days I suffer from a continuous lack of sleep. I'd hate to lose access to my favourite forum if I ever mess up one way or another.
Your example is not plagiarism. There is a clear extra "/quote" bracket that has no "open quote" bracket, and there is a quote that is inaccurately attributed to someone who did not make a post, but was quoting someone else in his post. You also copied the entire portion of a post, and clearly responded to the content of the post under the post.
If you had not caught your mistake, your post should have been reported, and a moderator responding to the report should have fixed the broken quote. From a moderation perspective, there shouldn't be any question of plagiarism in the above post.
In my experience, it is more common for mods and admins to look for reasons
not to ban users who are breaking the rules, than to look for reasons
to ban users who have broken rules.
