The current situation already make many newbie become hard to active in this forum, they can't post because of evil IP address, they can't post freely due to time frame limitation, they can get banned due to plagiarism
I don't see those bolded parts as a reason. I don't think any newbie writes too often; that may give them a time frame limit. Even if they post multiple times in a short time frame, I doubt the post quality. Getting banned due to plagiarism is not too harsh. Especially forum moderators are giving more chances to users. If they get caught doing plagiarism multiple times, It's justified. If you see some newbies doing plagiarism, You report them, and they never know why they were banned.
An excellent idea could be if you see someone plagiarizing, warn them and refer to the rules thread. If you find them for a 2nd time, Give them a temp ban. The 3rd time they should be banned permanently. I agree that getting permanently banned for first-time plagiarism is too harsh. We don't know how many chances someone got. So, it is up to moderators to find out if they were given an opportunity. They may have a log of users' activity.
not many users welcome newbie etc.
I see this one as the biggest problem. At the same time, I don't blame everyone. Some of us always try to help newbies, while some of us constantly being attacking to them.
