| GribbleGrunger said: Yeah, I came from another forum to this forum because they changed their policies on posting full articles. I think they have about 20 members now. |
Wow. Your cause and effect reasoning skills are superb...ly awful. Clearly that forum had far more problems than that single policy. Forums live and die. Some have shorter lifespans than others. If you want a counter example, the forum I came from that created a policy against this has more members than it did previously. Does that mean the policy magically increased member count? No. Thanks for playing, though.
And yes, there is a problem. To draw a relevant comparison:
We tend to be against piracy as it deprives the creators of a given material potential profit and appreciation for their work to some degree. So why is copying and pasting a full article from another site okay when it deprives the creators of the given material potential profit and appreciation for their work? Some sites pay their writers based on views, others based on the amount of ad revenue they are receiving. No matter which one you pick, the writer loses out because someone was lazy.
