All of my plagiarism reported cases from the previous month have been labeled unhandled, and to be honest, it kills the zeel in me to keep reporting when nothing will be done in the end, it looks like a lost quest! I've noticed that the mods are too lenient in cases of plagiarism, especially when it comes to old users. What about reintroducing the plagiarism ban bot?
Anyone who loves and wants to keep his topic clean should make it self-moderated because the mods have become less active these days; perhaps it's time theymos replaced some of the inactive staff to keep the forum running, as it's been ages since he appointed new mods. We have qualified and active users here who are eager to help.
Perhaps the moderators are following the administration's instructions on mitigating penalties for plagiarism or something like that. Because this behavior is observed in many sections, or global moderators do not want to ban users, especially old ones. One can only guess, and recently it has become easier and faster to get unbanned
Wouldn't it make more sense for one of the mods to come out and address the latest plagiarism rules rather than leaving us with so many assumptions over the last few months?
In 2018, the punishment was active and fast, but there is also a negative point in this, since many users who do not understand the rules well were banned and after that did not make any attempts to restore their activity on the forum. In general, a permanent ban for plagiarism is too severe a punishment initially. It would be fair to give this only with repeated plagiarism. Such strict rules still had some consequences for the activity of the forum, since there were indecently many bans at that time.
We also had a lot of banned cases in 2020 and early 2021, but I noticed that the actions on plagiarism cases became so minimal after the recent two unbanned cases we had earlier this year, and the forum activity has also decreased since the beginning of last year. I personally believe that onetime plagiarism for users who have contributed to the forum for many years getting banned is just too harsh; perhaps such users should be given a temban as a warning for first plagiarism, and maybe pamban after 3 attempts.
