What Happened Tonight
Jan 18, 2014 22:18:02 GMT -5
Post by Admin! on Jan 18, 2014 22:18:02 GMT -5
Hopefully, this is the last one of these I will ever have to do.
Tonight, three members were banned, one permanently, over plagiarism. The former member in question copied documentation posts I--and other members of staff--have spent hours refining over the course of almost four years, for use on a different site. They weren't adapted, or paraphrased. (Though some were as well, they are not what I am objecting to.) They were copied word-for-word. This breaks our first rule, civility.
Hammel staff spent a long time discussing this before deciding on these bans. We do not take banning people lightly. We only do it when we feel people are causing serious, irreparable harm to the board.
I know this will be an unpopular decision. But it is the right decision for Hammel.
-Tony
Tonight, three members were banned, one permanently, over plagiarism. The former member in question copied documentation posts I--and other members of staff--have spent hours refining over the course of almost four years, for use on a different site. They weren't adapted, or paraphrased. (Though some were as well, they are not what I am objecting to.) They were copied word-for-word. This breaks our first rule, civility.
Hammel staff spent a long time discussing this before deciding on these bans. We do not take banning people lightly. We only do it when we feel people are causing serious, irreparable harm to the board.
I know this will be an unpopular decision. But it is the right decision for Hammel.
-Tony
