Topic: Unintentional plagiarism - page 3. (Read 596 times)

All cases of rule breaking are considered uniquely and not as a general case with the same outcome, while unintentional plagiarism might not exist on the forum, if a user us caught plagiarizing and gets caught, the details of the case would be considered before such user is banned or when they appeal.
Some members are judged on merits of their contribution to the forum over the years, this could result in a lower ban, with restrictions of signature space possibly,
• If a user makes an error on imputing the site link, this would also be considered by the mods, sometimes using quite tags, or simply "" "", is usually enough to avoid any punishment.
• The intent is also considered, was the user wearing a signature when the post was made? Does it bring them any form of benefit, or were they just excited about sharing some new information.

All these and more are considered, but these cases make up a minor part of rule breakers, majority simply broke the rules, cause they do not care about the forum.

It is no longer news that Plagiarism is a serious offence not only in this noble forum, but also in the extensive academic fields. Newbies take note, its penalty in this forum is permanent ban. It doesn't actually matter when you are caught. You might commit plagiarism as a newbie and later caught when you are a senior member+, you will also face the consequences - according to rule 33 of the forum.

Without digressing, two cases of plagiarism has been identified;
1. Intentional Plagiarism(Purposeful appropriation of others work)
2. Unintentional Plagiarism.

I want to dwell on unintentional plagiarism;
Plagiarism may be said to be unintentional if the plagarist misuses the appropriate method of citation(citing an unexisting or different url from the source). In parentheses is as related to this forum. Or when the plagarist does not know that what he/she copied needs to be cited. Or when the plagarist intention is not to cheat.
I want to understand the basics of the unintentional plagiarism as regards to this forum. Is it that if found guilty of unintentional plagiarism, you will only get temporary ban.

Personally, I don't believe in anything called unintentional plagiarism. Since professionally it faces same penalty with intentional plagiarism. Unless the intention in the context is the intention to make money. Maybe, if your intention of plagiarising is not to make money, it should be called unintentional plagiarism.
Also, is there a possibility that someone will copy some chunks of knowledge that is not a general knowledge and forgets to cite it?

Having rejected unintentional plagiarism, I think it should rather be called plagiarism due to ignorance. Maybe, you are unaware of the conventions of citation. Then, you are unwilling to find the appropriate way to cite(plagiarism due to laziness). These are understandable to me, but unintentional plagiarism I do not understand.
Thanks all!