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vivster on 23 April 2015
RolStoppable said:
TruckOSaurus said:

To present someone's else work as your own. Which I think fits the situation when someone pastes a complete article without a source. Sure most will figure out that's it's an article from somewhere but gotta give credit where credit is due.

That's correct, but the OP of this thread apparently considers it plagiarism if a full article is posted with a link to the website it was taken from.

Read again. It's ambigiously written. I misread it at first too.

But it can be read as "Avoid plagiarism by putting the link in the OP". Which means you avoid plagiarism if you put the link down.



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Aeolus451 on 23 April 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Aeolus451 said:

Out of curiousity, is this a preemptive change before the sites are combined so that the writers get the clicks on the articles they write?

Sites are already combined and I don't think this is really a rule change, more a reminder. I think the 'don't post full articles' part has been in the rules for awhile, the post a source part definitely has.


Hmmm. I didn't realize that. I don't remember reading the the "full article" rule in the rules but I probably just don't remember.

Honestly, I rarely looked at the articles on here because of being redirected to a different site. Hmm, I could start to link the articles from the writers of this site into the threads instead of linking articles from outside of the site, if you and others would like that or not. Whichever way works for me.



TruckOSaurus on 23 April 2015
RolStoppable said:
TruckOSaurus said:

To present someone's else work as your own. Which I think fits the situation when someone pastes a complete article without a source. Sure most will figure out that's it's an article from somewhere but gotta give credit where credit is due.

That's correct, but the OP of this thread apparently considers it plagiarism if a full article is posted with a link to the website it was taken from.

Maybe the wording could be altered but the rule is 3 parts.

1. Don't post full articles.
2. Avoid plagiarism by including your source
3. Adding your own opinion is greatly encouraged.



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Mummelmann on 23 April 2015

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HigHurtenflurst on 23 April 2015
RolStoppable said:
TruckOSaurus said:

To present someone's else work as your own. Which I think fits the situation when someone pastes a complete article without a source. Sure most will figure out that's it's an article from somewhere but gotta give credit where credit is due.

That's correct, but the OP of this thread apparently considers it plagiarism if a full article is posted with a link to the website it was taken from.

If you mean the sentence: "Avoid committing plagiarism by linking the original article in your thread." then I believe he is offering advice, in other words 'make sure to link the article so your article is not plagiaristic'

Edit: Bah! I'm late to the correcting Rol party.



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Aeolus451 on 23 April 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Aeolus451 said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Sites are already combined and I don't think this is really a rule change, more a reminder. I think the 'don't post full articles' part has been in the rules for awhile, the post a source part definitely has.

Hmmm. I didn't realize that. I don't remember reading the the "full article" rule in the rules but I probably just don't remember.

Honestly, I rarely looked at the articles on here because of being redirected to a different site. Hmm, I could start to link the articles from the writers of this site into the threads instead of linking articles from outside of the site, if you and others would like that or not. Whichever way works for me.

It's not necessary or anything, but I'm sure we would all greatly appreciate it


I'll do that then.



Conegamer on 23 April 2015
chocoloco said:
Half of the threads I ever posted on this site were news threads. Now the only place to get unadulterated news will be the xbox empire and occasionally the playstation thread. Seems like a waste of time.

I don't think that this rule is discouraging threads from being created; far from it. It's merely just to ensure that links are always put in to the OP (which is often the case), to avoid sloppy formatting and/or provokative thread titles, and to encourage the OP to share their own opinion in their OP.

At the end of the day if you create a thread, then you dictate where the conversation is going to go by your actions in that first post. I believe what the mod team, and Smeags in particular, are trying to do is to promote a more positive environment where discussion is encouraged, as opposed to ignoring and banning news threads altogether.

That's what this looks like to me anyway.



 

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Arlo on 23 April 2015

Great decision! The site's always improving!



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DonFerrari on 24 April 2015

Weeeeew almost got scared you were going to prohibit pointless thread and kill 99% of our threads and discussion.



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Proxy-Pie on 24 April 2015

Wait, so we're not supposed to link the original article as well?