Why topic that is reported as plagiarism was deleted?

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

I reported the member SomeJasonGuy

I reported his plagiarism https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg55094615#msg55094615
Days later I checked his profile, no ban. Checked his topic: it was deleted.
I did not archive his plagiarism.

Username: SomeJasonGuy
Profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1567923

A merit beggar and spam, plagiarise after receive first merit.
Plagiarism: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5272362.msg55093174#msg55093174

Compound

Compound is one of the leading DeFi companies today. It’s token saw massive price gains soon after it was offered to the users of Compound. A user can immediately start earning interest on their crypto assets by contributing to the Compound’s liquidity pool. The interest rates fluctuate depending upon the supply and demand of respective cryptocurrencies. As of August 19th, 2020, over $800 million is locked-in under Compound protocol.


MakerDAO

MakerDAO currents hold the largest market share in the DeFi sector with over $1 billion in assets. MakerDAO is the most recognized player in the DeFi market. A user that knows about DeFi would have heard about MakerDAO too. It is a credit platform that is fully decentralized. It’s DAI stablecoin currently ranks among the most used stablecoins in the market.

Uniswap

Uniswap is a fully decentralized exchange. However, it is different from the other decentralized exchanges as Uniswap leverages liquidity pools. Users on the platform receive rewards for providing liquidity to the Uniswap protocol. They are rewarded with a share of the fees that Uniswap earns after each transaction. So far, the Uniswap users have locked in over $100 million in the Uniswap liquidity pools.

Dfinance

Dfinance is an innovative and unique project which is blessed with a renowned and experienced team that has a track record or integrity and excellence in the cryptocurrency space and is committed to the success of the project. This project has quite a few innovation features and I personally liked their wallet and interface a lot. They also claim that you can create your own financial instruments which seems very interesting.

Bancor

Bancor is a non-custodial DeFi platform offering users a way of swapping the crypto coins without the need for a centralized trading service. The DeFi platform also offers smart tokens to its users to increase the liquidity in the protocol. Currently, Bancor has so far accrued more than $11 million in crypto.

Copy and paste from the article: https://cryptocoinchance.com/2020/08/06/top-defi-projects-to-watch-in-2020nownodesthe-capital-medium/

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[Findingnemo]

Why he wasn't banned yet!

Here is the archive of that post: https://loyce.club/archive/posts/5509/55093174.html

[Lucius]

It is possible that the user deleted the post before the moderator handled that report. SquirrelJulietGarden, if by chance you have the opportunity to view your report history (you need to have 300 reports for that) by clicking on any post -> report to moderator, it would be interesting to see if the post was deleted by the user himself or the moderator.

I personally had a case where I reported plagiarism, the post was deleted, but the user was not banned - it was a copy/paste of an article from one news portal without a source link. In some cases, moderators will not consider it plagiarism - but someone still found more plagiarized posts from same user, so he gets perma ban.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Is it true? I can not my topic? Can you confirm that members are allowed the delete topics? I can only delete my posts.

Copy and paste, no source is plagiarism. Sometimes members can say  they forget to leave source. I can sympathize.

This one is different. Copy, paste, no source, and apply it to get merit. Began to post burst after get one merit. That member knows what he did.

[Lucius]

Is it true? I can not my topic? Can you confirm that members are allowed the delete topics? I can only delete my posts.

Sorry, I was thinking on posts, not topic - my mistake. I am not sure is it possible in all boards, but as far I know post can be deleted after 24 hours - but at any time it can be edited (something removed/added).

In this particular case, we will have to wait for the answer of the one who deleted the topic.

[marlboroza]

Copy and paste from the article: https://cryptocoinchance.com/2020/08/06/top-defi-projects-to-watch-in-2020nownodesthe-capital-medium/

That article does not exist.
Edit: I believe this is source https://nownodes.io/blog/top-defi-projects-to-watch-in-2020 (article is likely written on August 05)

SomeJasonGuy posted the same thing on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/defi/comments/icluez/defi_projects_to_watch_out_for_in_2020/ (August 19)

Maybe SomeJasonGuy is author of that article, if that is the case he doesn't need to give credit to himself but as it is copy/paste job and this is forum (not blog), moderator simple decided to remove topic.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Copy and paste from the article: https://cryptocoinchance.com/2020/08/06/top-defi-projects-to-watch-in-2020nownodesthe-capital-medium/

That article does not exist.

It does not exist today. Strange. I found it by Google. ?

A quick search: https://nownodes.io/blog/top-defi-projects-to-watch-in-2020


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#1. Compound
Compound is one of the leading DeFi companies today. It is riding the ‘Yield Farming’ wave. Comp, the native token of Compound, was the first crypto token that sowed the seeds of today’s Yield Farming frenzy this year.

Its COMP token saw massive price gains soon after it was offered to the users of Compound. But there was price correction later on, and thus, it came down to current levels. Compound allows its users to earn interest on their crypto assets and also borrow assets by collateralizing their crypto holdings.

A user can immediately start earning interest on their crypto assets by contributing to the Compound’s liquidity pool. The interest rates fluctuate depending upon the supply and demand of respective cryptocurrencies. As of August 2nd, 2020, the crypto assets worth $782.3M are locked-in under Compound protocol. It is a substantial rise as on June 1st, 2020, this figure stood at $100 million.

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Compound

Compound is one of the leading DeFi companies today. It’s token saw massive price gains soon after it was offered to the users of Compound. A user can immediately start earning interest on their crypto assets by contributing to the Compound’s liquidity pool. The interest rates fluctuate depending upon the supply and demand of respective cryptocurrencies. As of August 19th, 2020, over $800 million is locked-in under Compound protocol.

[lovesmayfamilis]

SquirrelJulietGarden, I can understand your indignation. But you also need to understand a few rules in order for your plagiarism reports to be executed correctly.
Always create an archive first. This will be ironclad proof. Then post everything as clearly as possible for the moderators. For example, you met plagiarism. And also you have the source. The original must necessarily have an earlier publication date than the plagiarized post you found.
You publish your report on the topic, and then be sure to submit a report to the moderators for the post with plagiarism, and provide a link to your investigation.
I can say that the moderators work very efficiently. You should always understand that the last word, whether to punish or not, will remain with them. This must be understood and accepted calmly.

[LoyceV]

Here is the archive of that post: https://loyce.club/archive/posts/5509/55093174.html

Here's the topic archive: https://loyce.club/archive/topics/527/5272362.html

Can you confirm that members are allowed the delete topics?

Users can't delete topics, but he could have edited it to "gone", after which a Mod could have deleted it.

Always create an archive first. This will be ironclad proof.

Do Mods even consider archive sites to be valid evidence?

 Then post everything as clearly as possible for the moderators. For example, you met plagiarism. And also you have the source. The original must necessarily have an earlier publication date than the plagiarized post you found.
You publish your report on the topic, and then be sure to submit a report to the moderators for the post with plagiarism, and provide a link to your investigation.
I can say that the moderators work very efficiently. You should always understand that the last word, whether to punish or not, will remain with them. This must be understood and accepted calmly.
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[Xal0lex]

Why he wasn't banned yet!

Here is the archive of that post: https://loyce.club/archive/posts/5509/55093174.html

Banned.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Banned.

Boom!!  It's always nice when a mod swoops into a thread like this and lays down the law.

OP, it looks like you reported that member's plagiarism in the "Report Plagiarism" thread, but did you hit the "report to moderator" button as well?  I don't know how often mods check that thread, and I would think that reporting an instance of plagiarism (or any other rule infraction) would be more efficiently handled if it were reported directly to the moderators. 

Either way, it's good you did find the copy-pasting and acted on it.  It's more than most members would do.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Boom!!  It's always nice when a mod swoops into a thread like this and lays down the law.

Thanks mod. Plagiarism was punished.

OP, it looks like you reported that member's plagiarism in the "Report Plagiarism" thread, but did you hit the "report to moderator" button as well?  I don't know how often mods check that thread, and I would think that reporting an instance of plagiarism (or any other rule infraction) would be more efficiently handled if it were reported directly to the moderators.

I reported that user with Report to moderator. What happened after that makes me surprised. The topic was deleted.

I reported that another user: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg55113679#msg55113679
No ban! He locked his topic after I and DdmrDdmr made plagiarism report

Either way, it's good you did find the copy-pasting and acted on it.  It's more than most members would do.

[erikoy]

Users can't delete topics, but he could have edited it to "gone", after which a Mod could have deleted it.

yes, users can't delete topics but can edit it before it has been reported. Reporting plagiarized post should be done before alerting the owner of the post if it is needed. In my case since I have too notice some plagiarized posts but I get to them sometimes if I have some time through PM telling them that they could get ban by copy and pasting posts or replies from other users, from a blog and article without including the reference in the post.

Mostly users do copy and paste posts here, from blogs and articles from outside had really no idea that they could  get ban by plagiarism. There are many of this kind of user in the forum and time will come that moderators will ban them. Let just hope that this kind of problem(plagiarism will be stop or minimize at least.