I like easy ways out.
On the brighter side, being that there is no easy cure it seems, it makes it easier to spot the occasional unattributed quotations. Unless they try to hide 'em yet further. I can smell them, sometimes. Textual criticism comes naturally to me. It could be comparable to reading fingerprints. When all-of-a-sudden there pops up some paragraph that changes in style, and the subject being spoken about could rationally enough be expected to have been written about extensively elsewhere (and published on the 'net), then in the past I'd choose a sentence to then use as search term -- and bingo --- busted.
That type pf thing occurs on the 'religion' forum upon occasion. I've seen two instances in the last 5 days or so.
Sometimes it's fairly obvious. When it's just a short paragraph or two, it's more difficult to detect --- but the oddball htm characters were tell-tales.
That individual was called on the lack of attribution -- but just shined it on. Plagiarism is ok I guess, if it can be used in effort to rebut the rebutters who oppose the constant "one true church" brayings, proselytizing, and put-downs of dissenters to those type of overblown claims (which even their own otc church doesn't fully, officially agree with(!)).
Not sure how a thread on code turned into a thread on religion bashing- but whatever