Should it be moderated? I don't know if I'm the first one to notice him and nobody reported before, or it's considered ok "to steal the intelligence" of someone else?
I think so. I remember people reporting users for using "text spinning" tools (or doing it manualy) to disguise their plagiarism. I believe the consensus was that this is still plagiarism (or actually worse, since they are going a step further trying to hide it).IMO (do not read this as an official forum statement), it's clearly plagiarism. Changing a few words is still stealing the idea of the original author. Try that trick at work as a journalist (or university) and see how fucking fast you're fired and shunned... Without this type of rule folks could "word fuck" anything and claim it as there own.
-copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
-failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
-giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
-changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
-copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether ---you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)
Source: https://www.plagiarism.org/article/what-is-plagiarism
All of the following are considered plagiarism:
-turning in someone else's work as your own-copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
-failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
-giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
-changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
-copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether ---you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)
Source: https://www.plagiarism.org/article/what-is-plagiarism
They do this is an attempt to hide their plagiarism and make it harder to detect. It's still plagiarism.
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