Aquinas wrote:Auditorii wrote:By my own admission yes, so did every previous Moderator to date iirc.
This is most definitely NOT the case. Plagiarism was much rarer in the past than it appears to be now, but that does not mean it was allowed. There were rules against it, and there were cases where they had to be enforced. One particular example I recall involved the Libreal Party in Dranland (as it then was) some years ago...you may recall that case yourself, since you were a Moderator at the time. There are a few other instances which come to mind as well, including the one Reddy mentioned, where a player actually plagiarised another player's post.
By the way, I have found section 5 (on RL variables) from the old set of rules, and even they included this:
5.1.1. Real-life quotations may be used, but the real-life speaker or author should always be referenced in an OOC (out-of-character) note alongside the quotation.
Auditorii wrote:I didnt defend using plagiarized material at all. I simply didn't want to come across an issue where someone used a component of a real life text, applied it to Particracy and was called plagiarism for it. For instance if someone posts a quote of a text, a piece of informational text from an article to describe something, etc
This is confusing. We really do need to know the difference between the plagiarism you're okay with and the plagiarism you're not okay with.
Auditorii wrote:not sure the most realistic thing to do is sudden rip countries from rankings without any context.
Nations are incrementally raised and lowered in the rankings several times a year, usually. What is the big deal about that?
I recall an incident not long ago where Likatonia did a naval exercise, and Moderation decreed it would have to be a failed naval exercise because the player had over-reached himself RP wise. What has happened with these countries is exactly the same. The players have over-reached themselves, and the reality of that needs to be implemented in to RP in some form.
Yolo wrote:Until you provide evidence that I, as the main player in Keymon, had plagiarized any posts in the past year (6 months), please stop trying to drag Keymon or I into this controversy. Also, please do not spit on my work just because you think I plagiarized, which I didn’t. I would prefer my work to make Keymon a strong power be respected, as I have shown respect to you.
You have already openly admitted plagiarising posts and have made it clear you are unrepentant about it. If anything, you sound indignant that the issue has been raised at all.
With respect, I have no interest in wasting my time going through your posts trying to research which (if any) recent posts have been plagiarised. So far as I am concerned, I divide players between those who I trust to RP with integrity, and those I do not. You, regrettably, fall in to the latter category. This is a real shame, because you can do some really good RP (the Keymon Civil War being a good example), but so far as your posts directed at the economic and military rankings are concerned, to be honest I'm not even inclined to bother to read them any more, and I do not think it is reasonable to expect anybody else to do so either.
This is not personal. I happen to like you as a person, as it happens. This is simply an issue about RP, and I would treat any other player the same who behaved like you have done.
Yolo wrote:It also of importance to note that you demonstrated that the Valruzia player had plagiarized a single post. So…why does a player’s nation deserve to be down ranked for a single post?
Same principle applies. You either RP with integrity, or you don't, and if somebody does not, I really do not need to waste my time reading their posts and I really would rather not see their nations enjoying premier positions in the rankings which kind of force me to acknowledge them.
Yolo wrote: I would prefer to believe that you are not using this to merely weaken the ranking of nations that surround you, but your constant attacks on my RP, despite not showing any evidence of plagiarism from me, is making it harder and harder not to believe my hypothesis.
This suggestion is ridiculous and is not worthy of you.