Topic: Protect Your Account From Plagiarism Ban - page 2. (Read 873 times)

I think you are right. After receiving reports from forum members, mods will do their tasks, and at the end, admins or global mods might recheck reported cases (that already checked and confirmed by mods) before doing perma-bans.
We likely have tripple-checking procedure: Bots/ Forum members > Mods > Global Mods or Admins.

It may very well be reported as plagiarism, by a user or a bot, but I would think you would be very unlikely to be banned for it. If it is quite obviously supposed to be a quote, and you have just messed up the BB code, I'm sure the moderators would realize that and not issue a ban. I'm sure I remember this exact scenario being discussed in a meta thread a while ago.

Using another quote or research something for making a reply is a preparation component and its always accepted because no one isn't master in every section. you can obviously use this way for your knowledge development and providing quality reply's. Yeah if a user feel it necessary to review his post history than it can save him obviously.


Yeah agree with your thinking and it's a responsibility for any forum user to obey forum rules and encourage others to do same.  

The suggestion is just so timely and newbie would really need to read this to be aware.
However, we should view this a warning to prevent from being perma ban.

I am an old member of the forum and I have not effort checking my post even knowing there is a massive ban, that's because I'm confident that I'm not doing the certain violation. Most of the cases I saw was about copying post of a certain member, so the time it was made, a user was already aware he is committing a serious forum rules violation.

As a newbie, we are obliged to read the rules to diligently follow it, so no excuses.

This is how your reply will look like so technically it isn't plagiarism and even though it gets reported by bot don't forget the moderators taking care of reviewing each reports are all humans so they'll consider it as a honest mistake and from my quote above it already shows I'm not the owner of the qouted message which means I'm not trying to present your post as mine so reporting such cases will just be a waste of time instead corrections should be suggested to OP

(will qoute correctly after you must have viewed my reply)

Having permission of author or not, leaving source link, full quote, or quote with author's name is the only way to avoid plagiarism. If someone don't have shady purposes, they don't mind to leave source link or quote.
By the way, I have only one curious question that: What happen if I the quote button to quote your post, for example, but during my time to compose my post to answer you I mis-delete the end bracket? Is this considered as plagiarism if someone else use bot to find plagiarised posts and report such posts?

This rules if one really need to have a healthy bitcointalk account and free from red tag and ban you have to adhere strictly to them in other to avoid getting into any of them, and the first thing any new member should do is to read the rules of this forum and build good reputation.

Posting content written by somebody else without providing a source is still plagiarism, regardless of whether they gave you permission to do so. You are passing someone else's words off as your own.

If they used it as a quote, or included a link to the original, then that wouldn't be plagiarism. However, if there are dozens of bounty spammers all posting the same message, then there is a good chance they could be banned for spamming, rather than banned for plagiarism.

I am not sure about it as in this case the user was asked to promote the brand/project by the project itself so he did not claim it as his own content and also mentioned the project's URL which means he posted the content for the company. If he had to post a "Note" below the message that he is posting this content on behalf of the project, would it still be termed as plagiarism? This is similar to posting ANN threads that contains content copied from the website. I couldn't find the source of the message but it was provided by the project itself.

It will repeatedly happen over time. Someone might argue that:
- I plagiarised 6 months ago, and today I get perma-ban, but I might become a constructive user of the forum next month. You can not ban me today and say that I got such perma ban because you believe that I won't be able to change and become more constructive user in
- Something like two questions, will repeatedly ask over and over.

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Therefore, I think that what theymos wrote is clear:
All perma-ban cases will be handled hand-by-hand. At first, people who plagiarised will instantly get perma-bans immedietaly with proof of their plagiarisms.
After that, they are constructive users and actually have significant contributions and did some positive net effects for the forum before their perm-bans, they can make Ban Appeals with all proofs of their  best contributions to ask for their second chances with ban-uplifts. I think it is fair enough.

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Only one thing should be considered with signature ban period after their perma-bans uplifted:
- How long their signature ban will last?
- Which criteria will decide the period of their signature ban?
I saw a few case with signature ban for one or two years, and not sure that there are diversifying signature-ban period or not. If there are big difference, it might result in comparisons between perma-ban-uplifted users. Fortunately, total cases that get perma-ban-uplifts are so scarce, and I have a feelings that they probably satisfy with their ban-uplifts and don't want to ask for anything more from admin. At least, they have second lives.
ChiBitCTy (one-year signature ban)
redsn0w (two-year signature ban)
Limx Dev (I am not sure about Limx Dev account, signature has not shown again, but there is no text on period of signature ban)

Will make sure to read up on the rules more thoroughly. As far as I know, I haven't done anything that would fall under the umbrella of "plagiarism" in my relatively short time here.
That being said, I can't help but get a bit worried when a bot is involved. Logically speaking, a bot makes sense, moderating a large forum manually would take a lot of manpower and all that -- but the things are known to mess up, especially in early implementations. Hope that the bot's findings are manually reviewed before the hammer comes down.

That one is plagiarised post, sure, but it is so foolish (sorry for the word) to make such plagiarism due to seconds of lazy to ask for information. I have no doubt that lovesmayfamilis likely did not have any shady thoughts with that plagiarised post, maybe it mainly come from lovemayfamilis' second-lasting laziness.  

Why not just make it simple? "Do not steal others content". I can't remember if I have copy paste any post especially from forum. Perhaps I use quote of article from forum out side with ordinal link occasionally just for references. However, it would be better option review post history in case if there is any copy paste. But wondering how we will detect which posts were plagiarized since lot of post on our profile.

I am also pretty sure that the plagiarize detector is a bot, not a human/user here. That was a huge number of users get banned in a short period of time they are all busted and auto-banned, I can't imagine how it works 700 users overall had busted.
Here's I can say to avoid plagiarized content just create your own unique reply or post then you are totally fine in plagiarizing content(Don't be a lazy one). It's impossible to have the coincidence plagiarized one line sentence that you had posted with the same content in another post without the intention of copy pasting.

Reasons why most people will plagiarize and get banned then ban appeal.
1.) Won't create their own content.
2.) They want a fast work.
3.) Lazy.
4.) Desperate in getting merit.
5.) Being "Greedy".
6.) They want "EASY" work.
7.) Easy Money💰.

The "rules" of an ICO or bounty campaign do not trump the rules of the forum. If you plagiarize, you will be banned.

I think an exception can be made in a minority of cases where the user is obviously a good contributor to the forum, with a history of useful and constructive posts, an extensive positive trading history, huge numbers of good reports, etc., and the plagiarism wasn't made for purely selfish/financial reasons. In these cases, a temporary or signature ban is acceptable. The vast majority of cases do not fall in to this category however, and certainly not the example you have given. People plagiarizing for the sole reason of earning money through a signature or bounty campaign deserve a permanent ban.

Campaign managers have been banned earlier for posting such requirements as it is considered "incentive-based posting strategy" and I am not talking about Proof of authentication kind of posts.

Yeah, I meant users like sarul as such campaigns should be banned instead of the users. Campaigns shouldn't make users copy-paste the same sentence as users may do it considering it's OK but it comes under plagiarism.

Nope. It is nearly the same as requirements from campaign managers to post:
- Proof of authentication
- Application form.
Campaign managers have not been banned with such above requirements, so I don't think that they will be banned with other template requirements (I maybe wrong, not sure).
I guess you meant this campaign, that results in the perma-ban of sarul. Suddenly got banned,

Some of those users really deserved the ban as they copy-pasted content to get merit, to increase their post count in signature campaigns and most were aware of what they were doing. However some users did it while participating in bounty campaigns and ICOs wherein they followed rules that required them to do so and even though it is wrong, I feel such participants should be given some warning and signature bans instead of being permanently banned. In such cases the managers and project managers should be banned just like it happened earlier when the rule of many bounty campaigns was to post in the ANN thread.

Sometimes users mistakenly post email content on the forum without a source link so I don't know if that can be termed as plagiarism as in such cases citing the source is tough.

LOL, I thank you so much for mentioning about my topic, that is more meaningful during such hottest period of plagiarism Ban Appeals. By now, banned users should spend their time to read my topic before creating their Ban Appeals. Prevention will save more time, reduce burden of stress and other things. Be more careful whenever you use Copy & Paste buttons when your account actively login, then you will be fine.