LogFAQs > #905140732

I was the first (and probably one of the only) users to get modded for posting any news article on the Politics board.

Mods at the time had decided that any link with more than 2-3 sentences of quotes pulled from it was "plagiarism" even if you linked to it and never claimed it was your own. That's...not even the definition of plagiarism (you can do block quotes in an academic paper as long as you cite it). Plus, oh yeah, this is not f***ing high school and nobody is submitting messages to mods for grades. But whatever.

What happened was they did the "plagiarism" rule unannounced, so nobody knew about it, but of course I was one of the first ones hit by it (telltale sign that some mod or somebody close to them doesn't like me). In theory, you'd never be able to link/quote news articles ever again on a news board. In practice, people who knew the secret "rules" of the site would selectively apply them against accounts they didn't like. So there were plenty of links that were never touched and nobody knew what was going on, and it was all bogus.

Eventually the mods admitted to the unannounced rule change and then pulled it because of complaints (also unannounced). This site is really awful at communication.
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