are you saying that someone who is writing an article about bitcoin mining and draft out like half of the article by itself and the completion of the work happened to be four lines stanza from someone's work that has be done initial or previously without adding the reference source, is not a plagarism?
I'm not sure what exactly you're asking, but it's quite simple: if you copy something, make sure the reader understands you took it from someone else.
How much time can each guilty user [plagiarism] be given before being reported to a moderator?
If you think it was a mistake, notify the user instead of reporting it.
I got someone doing paraphrasing plagiarism yesterday but didn't report it because just wanted to give him a chance to correct the post with the source link.
If you didn't tell them, I don't expect them to review yesterday's posts to fix it.
If there wasn't a time limit, maybe someone could still reason that they forgot to attach the source
I can already tell you that's the case if you find plagiarism in any of my posts, even if I posted it years ago.
something being allowed but then discouraged
It's allowed by the forum, but you might receive negative feedback. Kinda the same as scamming, that's allowed even though many users disapprove.
How do you allow something and then discourage it at the same time. Why not make it either acceptable or discourage it outrightly?
Allow me:
18. Having multiple accounts and account sales are allowed, but account sales are discouraged.
This rule has no meaning! If it would be removed, nothing would change because anything that isn't in the rules is allowed. The "discouraging" comes from users, not from Mods. So I consider it a clarification and warning instead of a rule.
