I don't think it's plausible that Acura3600 copied the video timestamp descriptions from youtube, added the reference link, and then typed the sentence at the top.
I agree, he most likely copied and pasted from yurimir's post.
And why wouldn't he?
The source of the content is linked in yurimir's post as well.
That he copied from another post "for convenience", instead of copying (and reformatting) from youtube has nothing to do with plagiarism.
That he inadvertently also copied a single sentence by yurimir is unfortunate, but you cannot be serious that this is plagiarism.
the intent of the user to spam this forum with zero-effort copy-pasta, which I think this is
This is where I'll have to draw the line: Acura3600 may have "slipped up" in some (actually many) copy&paste quotes, but I can say with confidence that I know my fellow German board members well enough to vouch for him/her (at least for posts on the German board, since I don't usually read the others very much).
He is
not spamming "this forum with zero-effort copy-pasta" to the best of my knowledge.
It also doesn't make sense, he's a Legendary with a "good enough" post history and even some 80 merit of his own.
He can easily make enough money with a signature program, if he so wishes.
We're on the same side here, we both hate copy-paste-spam signature campaigners, and I wouldn't let Acura off the hook so easily if I saw conclusive evidence of even minor cases of such behavior from him. But that is not the case.
I'm also not simply arguing for him/her because I like him/her or because I believe he should have a free "get out of jail card" because "Brutus is an honorable man".
To the best of my knowledge, and from the evidence has been presented here in the thread, and also from what I can tell from looking at Acura's post history, he is not a copy-paste-spammer.
He does, in fact, copy & paste a lot of announcements for different Shitcoins on the Altcoin-board, and he quite often does not link to the source and put everything in quotes, I'll give you that.
But it is pretty obvious that he's not trying to
a) present this as his own content
b) collect merit for it
c) bump his post count by it
I personally couldn't care less if Acura is banned or not. It's not like we're pals or we have a lot in common (he/she's a Shitcoiner, after all).
But the point is, at the moment there's a lot of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about "the purge" in the German board, and people are actually turning away from bitcointalk. Good posters.
Being too harsh on someone like Acura will not help make bitcointalk a better place.
