Good point but I don't think anyone would accuse someone of plagiarism just because of the limited capabilities of the device that they use.
You would be surprised. We have members that are exclusively using mobile phones to access the forum so what do you think would happen if people started massively referencing using OP way since those members would have no way to see the hidden links?
I think the context matters way more than the way someone is quoting a text, i.e. quoting someone else without any wider context or reason to quote them would be a good indication that the poster attempted plagiarism or is at least spamming.
I don't see how you can be accused of plagiarism if you quoted someone else's text in an obvious and visible way, no matter the context. In the worst case scenario it can be a low value post e.g. when someone opens a topic with copy/pasted wall of text without adding anything of their own.
That's judgmental though, what's "proper" to me may not be proper to you.
As I said in my previous post, its not enough to just cover your ass by sharing reference link as everything should be easily visible when you copy/paste something, including reference link. We have members that were using all kind of creative ways to hide reference links and the fact that they actually copy/pasted text and that very little was written by themselves. They were eventually called out for it and in the end they stopped those practices due pressure from other members.
