Plagiarism is one of the worst thing people can do, not only in crypto as well as in the forum, but also in other aspects of our lives.
In academic environment, plagiarism is the worst things students or researchers can do. Whenever plagiarism found, they have to face with very bad things, such as attitude of colleagues, punishments from professors, schools or universities.
I don't know the fact that most of users who plagiarised in the forum come from the third world, from developing countries or not, but I guess it is.
In the third world, people almost don't care about plagiarism because there is no punishments on them, even authorities, universities don't care too much or educatate them enough about plagiarism.
Maybe, their faults partially come from poor systematic education they have in their nations, but the things are different when they joined the forum.
Wherever they come from, plagiarisms are plagiarisms, and since they are forum users, they have to accept the rules here.
That may be so, but it isn't right. And on top of all that, people are usually earning money when they plagiarize someone's text, which makes it so much worse.
It should be like this and honestly I give theymos a big round of applause for such kind-hearted hands-by-hands approach.
I'm not a big fan of Theymos's declaration that there will be some exceptions to the rule, but such is life. I think if he's going to allow successful appeals, they should be granted only for exceptional members who've contributed a lot to the community and only rarely.
It's the point. Why we only take care about Legendary members who got perm bans due to plagiarism?
It is clearly unfair approach, if we keep doing like this.
Everyone should be treated equally, have same rights, same appeal rights in the forum.
So if Legendary members can be reconsidered for their faults, lower users should have the same chance.
For example:
If someone like nullius got permban, will he have chance to come back and got ban unlift? I think he should have such a chance no matter which rank he has.
Rank shouldn't have anything to do with it, nor am I sad when a Legendary account gets busted for plagiarizing something.
Demotions on high ranks should be another further steps to clean up the forum, but I doubt theymos will do it.
There is no place that can give perfect fairness, and we can not ask theymos do it.
Moreover, the era when the forum become a better place and opportunities for old generations of high rank users from Senior to Legendary members to join good payment campaigns has started. They will be competitive by self-made users, and they will become less competitive, obviously.
There are plenty of shitposting sig spammers who ranked up that much before the merit system.
