Fuck your reason, it's a plagiarism and you should be ban. Simple as that.
It's simple as all plagiarism cases. You plagiarize you should be perma ban.
No I think signature bans are more appropriate then permabans for most case of plagiarism .
Also back 2015 no one gave a shit about the issue.
I have argued this over and over and over for more then one person.
No one ever listened to me about it.
Two examples given about lauda appear to be clear cut examples of plagiarism.
I have argued more then once for long term signature bans especially over the older posts predating 2017.
So I say give Lauda a long signature ban.
Signature to read "My signature is banned until (2021 or 2022) or 2024 BTC ½ ing
It effectively removes incentive to plagiarize for the sake of signature profits and it allows us to track lauda since he/she could post but not earn coin. A ban would simply incentivize lauda to use an alt.
BTW I think we should unban quite a few people and just give them signature bans.