The logical reason is the banal ignorance of the rules, this was enough to get into the millstones of the ban.
Plagiarism is frowned upon in general and not just on the forum. In academic work, scholarly articles and any writing platform.
Copying and pasting someone else's work with no reference whatsoever to the author is unethical and ignorance of any isolated rule does not excuse it.
I am one who advocates for the newbie welcome message to be implemented to help new users familiarize with the rules and how the forum works, but you don't need to be informed not to plagiarize others content, only that it carries a heavy punishment.
Most banned just the same for 1 post, that was enough. In some cases, for 1 line. If the warning system worked here, it would greatly reduce the wave of bans and people would understand their mistake, but at the same time they would continue to use the forum.
How did you reach that conclusion? If one plagiarized post is discovered most would not bother to keep going through the post history.
The absurdity of this forum is that here you can endlessly lie, troll, cheat, organize scams and no one will do anything to you, will not restrict access, but if you copy someone else's text (even some of it) and you will be banned permanently.
That's opening a whole new can of worms.
