Topic: Effect Of Plagiarism In Forum. (Read 442 times)

Plagiarism here is "punished" quite strictly and the sentence is Ban! The ban is personal and you cannot create new accounts except to discuss your BAN and only in Meta.
Every other case of creating accounts while banned is just "ban evading" and your account will be banned again. For every new ban evading case you'll have to pay so called "evil fee" to create a new account which will keep increasing if you get more BANz.

So basically,  plagiarism is not welcomed here.

Newbies, read the RULEZ

Since OP got banned for plagiarism ( ironic considering he started this thread) he won't be able to answer your questions, but most obvious reason is ignorance. Anyway, @nullius already explained this issue earlier in the thread and root of the word "plagiarism"

Please how did you land at this? It seems organized but it is passing a wrong information. It the act of teaching people the wrong thing. I think plagiarism is better than what you have committed. Let me not just conclude because you might be correct from your angle when you prove it.

The word "Pla" in in Greek does not mean "Use" and I don't think there is a word like "Giarism" in Greek. Infact to set the record straight, Plagiarism is gotten from a Latin word not Greek "Plagiare" which means to Kidnap.
Please how did you get your thesis?

The word plagiarism is coin out from two Greek words " pla" meaning "USE" giarism meaning "ANOTHER"

It's simple if you know about it. Where did you get the info from the first time you used those image codes? You either saw it somewhere, asked someone and then memorized the code or saved it somewhere for future use. I am pretty sure not everyone knows about those image tags and just adds the images in their original size or uses another service for resizing like Imgur.

Isn't image resizing on bitcointalk pretty simple and straightforward? You just add either width or height number in that "[Img width/height=xyz]" bracket and thats about it? Like 2 seconds work.

It could be the mods prefer not to interfere in image plagiarism as it's a grey area, so they rather avoid making a decision. It would be better to hear directly from a mod, if it's a ban-able offense.

As you know, Bitcointalk doesn't have resizing buttons available when you create new posts.

On bitcointalk, even if you prove image plagiarism, and plagiarist admits it, he still won't get banned

Plagiarism does apply to images cause it can be stolen, but it's difficult to prove, probably the reason why it is not strictly enforced.

I have seen members do that a lot. They upload an image to imgur to take advantage of imgur's quick resizing options. As you know, Bitcointalk doesn't have resizing buttons available when you create new posts. You would need to know the codes by heart to resize your images properly.

The link would only appear if you insert the link directly from the website into the image tag, but if I were to download the same image and upload it on some other platform like imgur, it will not show any link to the original source.

Plagiarism does apply to images cause it can be stolen, but it's difficult to prove, probably the reason why it is not strictly enforced.

The plagiarism rule doesn't apply to pictures because the picture itself contains evidence of its origin. If I were to post the below image, I am not trying to misrepresent it as my own creation. If you quoted my post, you would see this link that leads to where I got it from.  

Yeah, forum administration not doing anything about the cases where members claimed to make a painting while they just used another person's work really baffles me.

Hello everyone, I made a Bitcoin Drawing a while back and kind of forgot about it. Let me know what you think about it. Here it is:

The only way a post like that could be a case of plagiarism is if I said something like: how do you guys like this funny strip that I created today?
There were cases where members posted stolen content in the Bitcointalk 10th anniversary art contest and those are obvious cases of plagiarism no matter how they were acted upon by the administration.  

The word plagiarism is coin out from two Greek words " pla" meaning "USE" giarism meaning "ANOTHER"

In general, I'm all for being lenient. There are users who have been temp banned many times but still haven't been permabanned because their contributions outweigh their misbehavior. I actively disbelieve in the idea of a "rule of law" where hard rules exist and are strictly applied across the board as if we're all robots. Every case should be considered individually in the context of the forum's mission.

Plagiarism is what gets people permabanned, not just copying. Plagiarism is copying with the intent of passing the work off as your own. In essentially all cases, plagiarism deserves a permaban because it usually proves definitively that the person is here for the wrong reasons: to fill up space in order to get paid, not to actually discuss or contribute. If someone was able to convince us that they were plagiarizing just to eg. impress people rather than to fill up space, then a lesser ban of a few months might instead be warranted. But this has never happened AFAICR. (Arguments based on plausible deniability aren't going to work; we don't need to prove that you had the motive we see in your actions.)

If you treat posting as a job, a chore, then you must live in fear, since the forum is not made for you. In this case, you need to blend in as someone who actually cares, but plagiarism will immediately out you, and producing a mountain of useless posts will also eventually be noticed, if more slowly. If you do actually care, then this will be obvious in your posts (and probably your merit score), and you will have nothing to fear from moderators; even allegations of plagiarism will be doubted when seen in the context of your other posts.


Plagiarism is almost always a copyright violation which could conceivably get the poster in a lot of trouble, but it's not a bigger legal issue for the forum than anything else. (Using the forum to violate copyright is never allowed, though.)


That's not a particular concern of mine.


Only in the EUSSR.

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This does not apply to pictures.