I just want to clear something up from a personal standpoint, since it seems like some players do not understand or recognise the extent of plagiarism that has occurred. As I have already mentioned Moderation has removed over seventy posts since the issue of plagiarism was raised in this thread, the vast majority of these posts posted by two players (Maxington and Luis1p).
The characterisation provided by Yolo04 and alaskancrabpuffs21 is both false and misleading. The reason that the process of identifying and removing plagiarism has taken so long is that I have been extremely careful to verify every single post that has been removed individually. None of the posts that I have removed were simply taking inspiration from real-life technology. In every single post there were at the very least a couple of sentences that were directly taken from a real-world source. In most cases there were several paragraphs taken and in some it was the entire article that had been plagiarised.
If you want to play in a community that tolerates this kind of behaviour then I am telling you now that you will need to find somewhere else. Copying and pasting other people's work and pretending that it is your own is not acceptable in Particracy and it never will be because it is dishonest, unprincipled and unfair.
As I said earlier today in the server, the people responsible for this "toxic atmosphere" that you are describing are the people who engaged in mass plagiarism in order to boost their position within the game. If this makes you uncomfortable then you should ask them why they felt it was appropriate not only to engage in this behaviour but to be openly dishonest about the extent of it when their actions were identified by other players.
Repeatedly players have compared the action taken against plagiarism to a witch hunt or the Spanish inquisition. The key difference in this case is that not only did the players accused quite clearly do exactly what they are being accused of, but any single person with access to the forum can verify that this is the case. I would encourage those of you who have not already done so to take a look through some of the reports that we have received and ask yourself if you think that they constitute acceptable behaviour.
The argument that removing plagiarised posts damages role-play is bizarre. The only time over the past few months that I have seriously considered leaving the game was when it became clear that we had several players who had been openly plagiarising a significant portion of their role-play without consequence. Realising that the time and effort you have invested into something has been overridden by players copy-and-pasting Microsoft press releases is incredibly disheartening and far, far more likely to drive players away from the game than tackling the problem.