As God has given me the ability to code, I don’t see any reason for doing plagiarism in future. However, I need to understand something related to the Academic Honesty Policy at freeCodeCamp.
The way I understand it after reading it; a camper deserves to be banned from fCC [and their account plus learning progress deleted] if caught plagiarizing for the first time — irregardless of the severity of the case.
In many universities or tertiary institutions of learning, plagiarism is usually treated as a misconduct and consequences usually include failing the specific unit, probation, suspension, or expulsion * for serious and repeated plagiarism cases.
In the situations where we discover instances of unambiguous plagiarism, we will replace the camper in question’s certification with a message that “Upon review, this account has been flagged for academic dishonesty.”
* [There is a typo in your reply. I would also like it if you used the conventional writing syntax.]
In that case, this is the message that will attribute or label a learner who just plagiarized precisely and for the first time:
“Upon review, this account has been flagged for academic dishonesty.”
Is there no possibility that the next reaction from fCC admins would be to ban this dedicated learner [and delete their learning progress] while showing them the message I’ve attached as a picture?
__ * [There is a typo in your reply. I would also like it if you used the conventional writing syntax.] __
Thank you for editing your post and removing the typing error.
What I meant by the writing syntax is that: Since this is an academic forum, shouldn’t the writing syntax that requires the use of uppercase and lowercase where required apply?
Thank you also for bringing forth the links to the code of conduct and terms of use.
All policies at freeCodeCamp are important for every student to obey to and I agree that failure to that should lead to punishments.
However, I was considering a situation where the admins/moderators here would misuse their powers to extremely punish an offense that could have otherwise been solved through a considerate scale of punishment or by giving a counsel to the offender..
I don’t think it’s that serious. Everyone is very casual here and on their own steady path. Also the “leaders” and mods here are super nice people! Literally the nicest and most patient people who are very understanding. There’s no reddit or discord mod stuff happening here
. I appreciate all of you for doing all of this and giving your time to us!!!