Copy/Paste Someone Elses Discussions- Why Do People Do This ?

Hi jujunme, I don't know where people get their nerves, because it does take a lot of nerves to think that you can copy and paste someone else's work and pass it on as your own. I think people try things such as this and hope that everyone else is blind to their dishonesty. Luckily, people are not blind and they do read these posts and if something looks familiar or similar they will become alarmed and "blow the whistle." People who is not talented enough to do their own work or who just don't have in integrity should think twice about stealing other people's work.

This is unacceptable and the lowest of lows when it comes to plagiarism. It annoys me that my co-lead at work often resends to his team email messages I send to my team with only the signature and a few words (sometimes not even) edited. He always get a copy of the emails because all c ommunications we send should go to our DL's which both of us are members of. So everything I send, he receives and vice versa. And he doesn't deny it, not that he could and just tells me something of the sort of adage that imitation is the highest form of flattery. Since it doesn't really hurt and in fact the communications we sent to each of our teams are usually applicable to both, I just let him be. This one though, is different. Obviously, whoever is copy-and-pasting discussions in mylot just wants to raise earnings. It's a shame coz it's probably a member who's allowed to copy and paste (I believe they require you to have 500 points for that).

Are there people like this here who don't have any thoughts and ideas to start their own discussions except copy someone else's discussion? I read some similar discussion before and never thought of checking out whether they were original. But personally, I hope every discussion is here is original and worth reading and responding. The only possibility of copying, I think, is that the person only wants to make money here. Exchange of ideas or broaden one's mind is secondary to making money. Fortunately, someone discovered and reported to the admin. It's better to work out some rules to punish people who do this. For example, their ID should be suspended once they were found cheating.

This has never happened to me. Now that I think about it you can't paste anything unless your rank is 500+ right? So unless this person was at that ring or above it, they must have retyped your entire discussion by hand! LOL - What a lazy idiot! I not trying to be mean but think about it if your going to take the all that time and effort completely retyping someone else's discussion why not just use all that energy to create your own? This is one of dumbest thing I ever heard of, I'm sorry this has happened to you jujunme, even though this hasn't happened to me here I have been plagiarized before and it does not feel good!

I never put myself in the plagiarism way.For me,copying others work is not the thing for me.Some people dare to this due to their inability to give something that is fresh from their minds.You said yourself that these people are not intelligent.That's why.They have other people's ideas,and the easiest thing to do is to copy.Copying is not what we should do,but I do agree if some people made improvisations towards other people's idea.That's how an idea expands and spread to other people.It is a good thing in Mylot that we can share our thoughts and ideas about something,and let other people respond to it.Copying would just affects the ideas blurted by the original creator,by putting it in a box and not letting it to expand.Or maybe these people just copy to increase their earnings,perhaps.

I think you nailed the reason in your commentary. I know for me personally, I often copy conversations, or quotes to other forums and conversations on other boards. Although not really the same issue, I do think there are some great conversations that go on here and often times well documented thoughts and reasons. Since there is no Facebook or Twitter icons to spread these topics virally, I think that sharing some of these topics with other sites is a great idea. However, what you are talking about is different, and quite honestly inexcusable. My guess is it had lots of response, and someone looking for their 15 minutes of fame, or personal ego boost. Some peoples children....just gotta watch them all the time.

i never done this and i never have my discussion being copied as well... plagiarism is the same as stealing and it is not the right thing to do regardless of the reason... anyway, you can also think about it in a positive manner... may be your discussion is so good that other people feel that they have to copy it... :-) take care and have a nice day...

I think that these people are uncreative, lazy and not self motivated. They are going to be failures at making any extra money online because they can't do anything on their own. To copy others topics is obviously agains the rules and I would think these people have to be pretty dumb to actually think they aren't going to be reported and maybe asked to leave the site. Just silly! Never happened to me(that I am aware of) and it would be quick to be reported.

As i've posted here many times, we are entitled to do something stupid at least once a day. That's a good example what happened to you. He thought maybe he could get off the hook or something.

Yeah, it happened to me in school- there was this girl who copied my diary, verbatim..I was so shocked dad the teacher asked who cheated.. I just don't get people who are so lazy and don't have their own opinion. They're going to get caught anyway so they shouldn't cheat at all.

Not everyone will do it. We don't want to be a copycat. If someone did it, he or she must be desperate to earn for the credit. ha! ha! ha! Luckily we still have some diligent and responsible members here to find out all of these nonsenses. If any of the members are caught of copying the discussion exactly, they should be punished heavily. Deleting their post is insufficient.

Sometimes i copy/paste for faster. Because i think it's so much information like that on internet, and it's be same to mine. But with mylot, all i've typed by myself.

It is never happen to me but i must agree you it isnt fair because every one must give his own opinion and dont just easy copy past things from ather members but i though ther was a limit of copy words here... Mayby am i wrong but i think the best you can do is just report them, i think they will stop doing it then! And i hope for you that it never happens again!

can tell you in one word "GREED"

That's what makes us human. There are those who abide by the rules and those that cheat the system. We see this everywhere, not just with a copy and paste on myLot. I wonder if your plagiarist is the same one I reported last week for posting a lengthy cut and paste from another site? If you believe in karma, you'll be able to rest knowing that what goes around comes around...

Plagiarism is never okay. Not when you're copying a book, a story or an argument. Not even on mylot. I'm really sorry to hear that it happened to you. It's good that mylot is so strick and that they acted and deleted that discussion, not all sites do that! I suspect that person just wanted to earn some money with minimum effort, well now (hopefully) they have learned their lesson.

There are alot of people that i have noticed that have started to copy and paste other peoples discussions and yes it is not nice for a person to do this to anyone, but it has always happened on here and i think that it always will.The reason they dpo this is because they are too lazy to start their own discussions as well as they think that it is an easy way get make money.

I simply do not understand it. I guess that they are lazy. Once in a while, we may copy part/ a sentence or two from another discussion because it is well said and explains the situation really well. I guess that they are lazy and that they want to earn a quick buck.

as i know copying is not allowed in mylot only ranking above 500 are allowed to do it so m not familier with it