This thread is... really weird. In writing (not even just journalism), plagiarism is pretty much the worst thing you can do. Even in school where you're just writing some random paper that no one but the teacher will ever read or care about, if you're caught plagiarizing, you are at the very least going to get a stern talking to and an F on whatever the paper was. Likely more than that, depending on what the paper was.
At a professional level, it's simply the end.
Yes, it's gross that GG loves this because they love any attack on games journalism, but in this case they're completely irrelevant. Still, there are definitely some... gross posts in this thread, and even a tweet posted that was a response to one of the GG... coordinators (in case you thought they weren't going to go in on it).