Yes, she did, she had made at least 4 posts with large amounts of text (3 entire methods, 1 entire prayer) lifted from other websites, posted without attribution, and in one case (here) even had quote tags showing herself as the author.
I screencap below the reasons I banned her from my outgoing PM to her (my outgoing mod PMs are, within reason and where they don’t breach someone else’s confidentiality, a matter of public record) notifying her of this:
This is the post with the largest amount of text where she a quote tag attributing the text to herself:
The text looks like this:
You can see the quote tag here:
That exercise is from sumeriansociety.org/beginner.html
I enquired whether she was the author before banning and she stated she had found the text on anotber forum, so she did openly admit to passing off other people’s work as her own.
There were other issues as well but as explained in the sceencap above, plagiarism is a serious issue in itself.
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