There was no "crime".
That's one of the weird things about these vigilantes.
They leap to the conclusion that you're a criminal and then leap to the conclusion that every account you happen to interact with is a sock-puppet.
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Ah, but there is, it is a fraud.
If I present your work as my own, then get paid money you should have gotten, that is a damage to you.
I have diluted the value of your work by counterfeiting it.
Try getting published in a paying magazine with some plagiarism and see what happens.
You will be lucky to not get sued, if exposed.
The rule these two are pushing back on has been well established here, I don't much like it, either, but it is unlikely to change any time soon.
And, maybe it shouldn't change.
Maybe we should change to better fit the new abundance paradigm.
We give away free money here, it's not too much to ask that you spout some gibberish rather than steal the work of others and present it as your own.
Gibberish gets lots of votes here.
It comes down to a test of wills.
I think the hive wins that one against any individuals.
Perhaps they can form a coalition large enough that we can start copy/pasting stuff, but I doubt the price survives that outcome.