Suggestion Plagiarism consequences

Dear DP Staff Team,
First of all, I'd like to thank you for giving us, designers, hobbyist, enthusiastic amateurs the opportunity to enter design contest on your forum.
My concern is simple, I'd like to ask you if it was possible to give a bit more attention to that section of the forum by giving some kind of punishment to the people who plagiarize? Unfortunately, there are several people who try to sell stolen images there.

Of course, one cannot expect the DP Staff Team to check each images posted there, whether they are stolen or not; however, after it's been revealed someone used copyrighted images, I firmly believe there should be consequences - especially for those, who've been caught numerous times.

Suggestion:
- After the first case of sharing copied design a Moderator notification could be displayed on their profile page.
- After more occasions ban them from posting in the Design Contest Section.

I am looking forward for some positive changes.
Diana

 

I support this - having such profiles flagged (and ultimately banned) would benefit the forum.

 

I support this too!!! Is it possible to give ip permanent ban to copycats??? I hope yes.

 

That's a bit of overkill, a simple 2 point warning would suffice.

 

And what does warning points mean exactly? 10point = ban?

 

Yes, but bans on DP are temporary 3 month bans. This is a good thing as many members have shown over the years, that they can modify their behavior. Thus permanent bans are usually unnecessary.

 

Nice, thanks for the information!