There was ever an elaborate, human like, unbiased answer to any of these topics? All i seen were generic, robotic like murmur of thoughts on the idea, "the sky is blue", "the water is blue", kind of a thing people keep doing basic associations, but never looking behind the reason, or looking with awareness.
Do you want highly intelligent philosophical discussions about why plagiarism is something that is resulting in permanent ban on this forum? I think there are hundreds of threads that are open on the topic of plagiarism, but the thing is very simple and it is in the forum rules. You made plagiarism, you got caught in it, and the punishment is perma ban.
The unfair thing here is that the person who reported, looked deep into that profile, was probably a person who had a grudge. Why would you look deep into a profile, looking for some mistake that it happened long time ago (at the point of being active), for example accounts getting at for something long ago. Who is this person who looks into these profiles? The profile who he reported it was not a newbie doing spam. Do you think this is fair, for the person to lurk around freely, while the system gets against the banned user, for he is without knowing or having a saying. Such deep rules, huh? Such strong rules. Right!
Obviously you are not aware that someone is run a bot who is check for plagiarism, thousands of accounts were permanently banned in one short period, and I don't think anyone had anything against you personally. I'm surprised you ask questions like this without knowing a bit about the history of the forum.
A wave of bans: 400 yesterday, 300 the day before. What changed?You people only care about the approval of the manager/person who gives you the signature, or the merit. You guys are not free. Look on any other forum, like reddit, or anything alike, they don't go around like bots, following some program.
I do not agree that it is wise to generalize and put everything in the same basket, not everyone is here for money nor is everything in the merits. Good signature campaigns are the privilege of those who have been on this forum for years, have given and still give something to this community - and merits are part of a system to combat spammers and prevent bots from destroying this forum.
I consider myself free, from day one I try to stick to the rules of the forum - and it never occurred to me to present someone else’s work as my own - whether it is in the forum rules or not. And as for other forums, I don’t want to comment on their policy towards plagiarism or fighting bots - if that’s allowed somewhere then that’s their problem.