jamescfm wrote:Five days later and none of the players involved in plagiarism have been punished. In fact a couple of them are currently engaging in spamming the Particracy Classic Discord with messages claiming that they did nothing wrong. I will reiterate my previous question: what action will Moderation be taking to deal with the problem?
jamescfm wrote:Based on the feedback raised elsewhere, Moderation has removed all posts from the Forum that we know to be plagiarised. Some of these posts were brought to public attention by other players while in other cases, the plagiarisers revealed the information to Moderation. If you find that there are other posts that appear to be plagiarised then we encourage you to contact us in privately so that it can be dealt with.
At the moment, it appears that at least twenty-one plagiarised posts were published in national news threads. The earliest of these is from the end of January and the most recent from a couple of days before this thread was created and the plagiarism became public knowledge. Not only is this a longer period than we had previously been led to believe, it also indicates that plagiarism more widespread than I was aware.
I appeal once again to players, if you have engaged in plagiarism that you know has not been identified then you absolutely must reveal this information to Moderation, so that we can remove the posts and keep a record of the information.
jamescfm wrote:Removing the plagiarised posts as soon as they were discovered might have looked suspicious on the part of the players involved, it is understandable that they did not want to do so. For this reason, Moderation chose to keep a record of the plagiarised posts for reference purposes instead of removing them. When it was brought to our attention that the existence of plagiarised content on the Forum might cause wider problems, the posts were removed.
jamescfm wrote:Players cannot remove posts once a more recent reply exists in a thread- only Moderators have this permission- and I think this is what the players meant. Thanks again for bringing the issue to our attention.
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