He lied about copy & pasting in a sig. campaign. Apparently he forgot.... yeah right forgot my ass.
I've seen people fail at quoting before. Say the line above wouldn't be in a quote, but I respond right under it, just like I do now.
It would look like this:
If a Newbie posts like this, I don't instantly assume he has bad intentions. After first reading Lone Shark's red trust, I've been trying to imagine if it would be possible for me too, to accidentally mess up a quote so much that it can be turned into a copy.
I often copy/paste my posts together with multiple quotes as sources, pasting them all into the same post. It sometimes fails with nested quotes, and for that reason I check my own post again.
I think it's very unlikely to let an accidental verbatim copy/paste slip through, but given enough posts made by enough people, it can happen eventually.
That's a possibility. Anyway, don't you think that there should be some traces left that will help identify whether that "user just accidentally messed up a quote?" Maybe a bracket left or a message down below as an added detail, reaction or response to the quoted text? As I see it, the exact same thing is copied and no traces can be seen that it is "supposedly" a quote. Also, I see no reason why he would just quote it with no text down below (unlike in some occasions where you just quote it and no necessary text down below). Reiterate in behalf of that user? I don't think so.
I also do that: entertaining all possibilties I can think of. It is a good thing actually and there is nothing wrong with it. There is a mystery/thriller writer who said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains however improbable, must be the truth." He applies that to his "detective" stories and I think it suits the context that I'm trying to convey.
Afaik, Loan Shark is the only one who has been given a second chance of breaking the copy-paste rule which really is a permanent ban
I've seen people
get away with it before.
Oh well... Maybe hilariousandco missed it? Even though there are exceptions like in Lone Shark's case, there should be a red trust in
s1lverbox's profile. It would be quiet unfair. I didn't read the entire case whether you had compromised to settle this issue that's why you didn't left him (or other DT members) a negative trust.