Serious Issue - Copy/pasting articles and posting them on MyLot.... DONT!

Sadly many peoplpe do respond and then they waste their time too It is cheating, not just cheating myLot but also cheating all those that in your friends list by hoping they will respond

I just earned the right to copy and paste today, but I still will not be copying anyone else's material either from the Internet or from other sources. That is just wrong. Besides, I have a pretty distinctive writing style, as do a lot of people, so I think that it would be very easy to tell if my discussions weren't my own.

I have seen about 3 such postings today. I don't know why people can not think enough for themselves & have to just copy it. sad really

Yes! It's called PLAGIARISM if I am not mistaken. Everyone should not do that because it will show that you are a fool person, who doesn't have your own ability to do thing even writing the article. Even your article is full of mistakes, but it's yours. And people respect your hard work. So don't just copy the other people's work and paste here or somewhere else to be your own!!

Yeah, i saw it in many discussion and it turn out other members copy the articles word for word without when linking it to the page of the sites where they copy it and they already presume they have the right. Plagiarism is rampant here and many get uses to it as for a long times they already abuses the copy and paste function ,hence some are lazy to make their own discussion which is very annoying from other members who try hard to come out with their own quality discussion and yet only are appreciated.

Well, it is nothing we can do here but try to be observant on the kind of posts. I even saw some discussions being copied in the blogs of the other social site I am with. Worst is, it is another persons blog. I don't know why some people were able to make such thing. Maybe out of ignorance or intentionally spamming.

Oh and did they tell you that that discussion and that includes are liable to be deleted so if you get notify email, it will say 'this discussion is no longer --because it violated myLot guidelines. And sad to say, sometimes a discussion where someone copied and pasted might have gotten around 50 to 100 replies before it is responded and if he commented on all the responses, or she as it were, then there wold be a lot of upset myLotters.

Really, what pleasure do they find in stealing others' articles? It's a pretty breach of copyright... And here I'm, totally confused of what to do with privilege I got post 500! LOL I use it just to safeguard my posts or to quote someone... A slow connection makes you honest!

I dont think people should do that it takes too long to read them and most people probably arent going to take the time besides you should technically get permission from whoever you took the article from. It isnt anything that I plan to do but I could do it sometime. It is not impossible for me to do.

hi diamania I have seen a few myself and wonder why they bother as most of us do know better, and we cannot respond as the discussion could get deleted and we would just lose points. Also there is a big issue of using someone else's work and that is also not good, nor legal either.Again some people do not read the rules and that's so silly.

hi diana thats so stupid and that is also showing that the person has no imagination of their own that they have to' just copy an article instead of reading it and telling us 'about it in their own words. Also as most more experienced mylotters will not respond to this they are losing out all the way round. We know better as the discussion will ultimately be 'deleted and we would just lose well needed points.

Really, since I have had the ability to copy and paste, I have not used it much at all. I would rather type. The only time if I am using the copy and paste is if there is a website I want to refer people to that is relating to the topic of discussion. For me to do that, it is rare.

there is one section on here where several people do this all the time - they don't even bother paraphrasing (which is also plagiarism) and it is blindingly obvious because that is not how they write.

Anyone that takes this job and doesnt have the common decency to type there own thoughts feelings and ideas has no form of ethics and should be ridiculed threwout the land ...thank you and people that did this ur lame (spitting on you)