nightsurge on 29 May 2009
| JGarret said: Banning goes too far in my opinion. |
Well this site does not have any infraction system in place, so a warning and then temporary ban is all that can be done.
However, I still even feel that is not enough.
Too often users completely plagiarise the article. Giving the link as a source still does not make it ok to copy the whole article without the author's permission. I've been on many forums that had issues with this and so I know how big of a deal it can be when serious blogs and news sites have their articles plagiarised.
I guess the main problem is with people who copy the whole article. If you forget to post the link, you receive a warning and that will eventually expire. That is fair. However just copy/pasting an article should never be allowed.
