when does a person take advantage of copy and paste?

That is very sad. I always thought that people here share original perspectives. No wonder some people have reached a large number of entries. I thought their brains have always created new insights and added them here. The administration should look into this. Several users have advised me about the length of entries I should be posting. It seems the system looks into it carefully. Not the content then? Sad. Sad. Sad. I believe that your concern should be heard. Life is already unfair. At least, we can make mylot.com out of the list of those biases.

Yesterday I faced this c/p problem. I red the alert and happens I faced many times many different kind of spam and copywrite rules broke so I understand .. But .. I am not a native english speaker and, to be able to "generate" pieces of writings as close of spelling and grammar as possible, I have the habbit to - often - write it on my editor (notepadd++) which have a spellcheck buoilt in (well, addon,but is not important). I do this often and not only here, but also when I make large responses on peoples blogs or forums and sometime even before I post in my blog. I missed 3-4 answers to articles here, yesterday, because of this. And more, I have a huge collection of jokes which I would want to select and some to put here, to share with mylotters .. but I cannot c/p .. some are long and I have no time nor mood to re-write'em ..

I think that copying and pasting from news sources is okay when you are sharing news. Otherwise you need to put in originality in your posts. Even when you answer two of the same questions I think you should put originality in it.

I've only seen one person here copy and paste the same response under similar topic discussions. He even copied and pasted the same response under my discussion and the response had nothing to do with my topic, that's when I said something to him about it and he told me that he wasn't looking when he was typing and accidentally posted the message under mine. Can you believe it? lol I think it's wrong for a person to plagiarize and copy and paste the same response over and over again because it shows that they are careless and did not put in much effort into what they are posting.

well. i understand some people join mylot purely for the money, but i do not agree with copy and pasting. at least there has to be some originality. currently i havent copied or pasted anything yet, and i hope i will stay this way.. i believe mylot can be a genuinely caring society..

Hello spicysweetie21, Yes. I think it is wrong and unfair when someone copies and pastes articles and pretends to have written them. I have nothing against them just showing the article but using it for there own is copyright abuse. But I guess those people are part of the system and won't disappear. Cheers! Thok

Gee, spicy, I don't know how I missed this discussion for so long! Are you talking about the member I THINK you're talking about...lol? I think she's truly a teflon flower because everything slides right off her, doesn't it? Annie

I do take advantage of copy/paste of articles I see, and of course give a link so a person can read the entire article for themselves...one of the reasons I give excerpts from news articles is that I've learned from the past that more often people DON'T bother to go to the article link and read the entire thing, so yes, do copy excerpts, but I always make sure I give my own input of the article, and more than just a sentence or two. There used to be a member here who did discussion after discussion of news items and did copy/paste and did two things wrong: 1). she would copy the entire article and not give a link...so in effect was a form of plagiarism and 2). Never wrote ANY input of her own, in her own words about the article

It depends upon a person's mentality.. I have a friend, who even copies a loveletter to send to his lover...

that isn't a discussion at all. the person doing this is probably just trying to make as many posts as possible, either for money or some other reason. does mylot delete them?

yes i think every response should be original.