Mylot: Do you copy ideas from Mylot members?

ALL of us can write about ice cream for example. Each of us has different stories to tell about ice cream. Plagiarism is copying someone's CONTENT not subject.

One can write about a topic and from this, others will develop their own perspective. It is not plagiarism .

Not really, but sometimes a member discussion will spark a discussion idea in me.

I don't think copying idea is plagiarism. One can do it provided they should not copy paste the ideas word by word.

I have gotten inspiration from other members here, but never copied them word for word or anything like that.

Though I don't consider this as plagiarism but I'm not copying ideas. I have limited time here to copy ideas for my discussions. I can only post three to five discussions a day.

If a member's discussion inspires me to start a discussion, I make it a point to make a mention abut that member/discussion in my post.

There really isn't an original idea anymore. At least, that is what I think.

Plagiarism would be copying someone's work - word for word, or close to it. But taking an idea and putting your spin on it is ok - as long as it's in your own words.

No.. I am not posting anything like that. These days i am just posting day to day things

haha! I observed that @JustBhem.. Lately I have read stories related to others story. But I do not want to judge them this time because maybe its just accidentally related.

On a site like this we often bounce off each other. We read something and realise we have experienced something similar, so decide to give our perspective on it. Nothing at all wrong with that. And they do say that there is nothing new under the sun. Plagiarism is copying someone else's work word for word.

@JustBhem Yes, I copy all my material from theBlock....Oh, I am the Block....Never mind.

Yes, I have seen some that have written discussions that had similar things in them.

sometimes we do things called challenges. i like to start them

When it comes to mylot one thing that everyone probably writes about is mylot earnings... whether it's how much they made in a day or a month, how it can be done, etc. So, in a way it's like we are copying each other... still it's coming from us in our own words.

I like to be original so the very thought that someone would suspect me of copying their ideas is truly mortifying. - and that is the reason why I usually check the recent discussions first before posting mine. Naturally with hundreds of posts coming out every day - there would be those with similar topics, some are coincidental and some are not. On the very few occasions that I have written a discussion triggered by someone else's - I have made sure to mention the member's name and the title of the post. it would also be prudent to wait at least twelve hours or more before posting that discussion. Right now I have at least 12 discussions - in waiting - which I have put aside since the beginning of October because there was similar content already posted.

@JustBhem I can understand what you say but sometimes it can be a coincidence.

Never. But I am inspired by some of them.

i think it's ok to copy other's ideas unless it's patent-protected