Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20140515085613/@comment-166-20140605050249

My nickle on the topic (I'd give two cents, but Canada doesn't have pennies any more...): 1) Users must be warned at LEAST ONCE before being banned. We've always had a policy of assuming good faith. 2) The first ban should not be permanent. 30 days is probably sufficiently harsh. 3) If they do it again after being banned once, then let the ban-hammer fall with such swiftness and permanence that computers within a one mile radius of them freeze up. 4) I definitely agree with what Nathan said about really old material being possibly written by the same person and contributed to two places. That is rampant on our site. If you assume that any block of text which matches another site is plagiarism, you'd be surprised to learn how often you're wrong.