What do you think of comments that are exactly copied from other forum sites?

I think this is just not rare. Maybe this kind of things bothers us and decrease our enthuism about something. Any way if the person copys the answer and labeled the origin of the answer that must be acceptable.

I was looking at your tags, and wow, there are some really long ones there, lol.. Anyway, back to the subject. I certainly think that plagiarism is not allowed and if the site owner realizes this, they will definitely penalize. It's best to stick to an original post and not copied from somewhere.

Good point my friend. Since I am not a member of other forums ( I'm a die hard mylotter) I have no way of knowing whether a topic is copied or not. I'm not even sure what mylot guidelines say about this, I will check it out. Personally, I feel that it is intellectual dishonesty. One can get ideas or other postings can spark to some more ideas but to copy exactly the contents is plagiarism. Now that you've mentioned it, how can we be sure that it is the other way around too. People copy our postings here and post it in a different forum. You kept me thinking here. We can't really control rouge players, can we? Me may have to just leave them to their own devices and watch them self-destruct, for crime, in whatever form does not pay. I notice one user here who post countless discussions in a day but doesn't make comments to responses the discussion gets. Maybe this is what he is doing all along. He couldn't respond for the simple reason, he doesn't know how to. He just copied them. My imagination is running wild now but who knows?

I respond and comment to the best of my ability. There are people doing various things to satisfy themselves which are beyond my control. Through quality discussions and responses I can advise them against such immoral and unethical activities. It is for them to understand what is good and what is bad.

Normally, if I encounter plagiarism in this site, I would report the user immediately. Obviously, this plagiarist would usually copy and paste from any of the previous responses of a certain discussion and sometimes add a sentence or two of his or her own. So, it will be easier to notice, but I think it will be a bit difficult if it's from another forum site. If you can check and compare when the comment was posted then we will be able to know who is plagiarizing and make a report.

If it came from the same author then for me it would be alright, but if not then it is a big offense to the odiginal author.

This is totally against the spirit of this sight.We are here to share our opinions and most of all be ourselves. If we copy someone else's work the whole purpose is defeated.I think this person should be reported against and banned for life. It is just not fair on people who try to communicate with others and earn through honest effort.

I think this kind of defeats the object of these discussions. I personally post discussions to learn from peoples experiences. If they have copied an answer from another source then they can't back up their comments with their own experience. Maybe they are trying to make as much cash as possible and adding content on anything to earn the money.