Copying And Pasting For Dummies

I agree the art of plagiarism is definatly falling lol. I havent been on mylot for very long (and Im under 500 so I cant cut and paste lol) but I do notice that some discussions are just pure cut and paste while others try miserably to make it somewhat there own, all with no mention of the original owner ofcourse. If people would just put a little more time, thought and effort into there plagierising again it would be alot easier for us to read and accept ;) lol.

thats just unacceptable behaviour. All of these people should be sent to university so they can learn to plagarise correctly. Firstly you have to find the info that you are looking for and ensure that it comes from a reeliable source and its not just some nuts thoughts. Then the diffcult bit is passing it off as your own. You can't just paste it you've got to make it believable that you wrote it, so if your american replace the big words with little ones and we might believe you wrote it (that was a joke) and stick spelling mistakes in. My forte is the adding of commas in the most unusual and completely wrong places. When all of this has been achieved then knock yourself out and plagarise as much as you wish

Sorry to bring this to a more religious level, but the thing most bugging me is a user who keeps posting Muslim Spam, articles after articles of stuff copied from islamic sites, such as how long should you sleeves be, feel like screaming in anger. I spend a good part of my life bridging the gap between my religion and others, emailing explanations, answering questions, donating to causes, and all it takes is one user and it seems like we´re nothing buch a bunch of spammers.

I know I've seen my share of ones that will paste things in that are very wrong to begin with. Just because it's up on the net doesn't mean it's correct. I could post something up on my site that looks legit but that doesn't mean its accurate. Check for more then one source for things before you put it in. I've also seen the ones that obviously paste in things. Now the jokes that everyone has floating around in emails I could care less about but other information people should at least cite them for it. I usually just put in a link but now and then I might put in some of the information. A snipet and then the link to the full article. That way they can get it all if they want and you don't come off looking like you have no clue what you are talking about.

LOL I totally agree with you, you can also add in the ones that either cut half a word off in their haste to copy and paste or those that paste in lines like please fill out the form below for more information etc. Actually, I have a big problem with copy and pasters, I have several articles and short stories etc scattered around the internet and I would be totally devastated if I found someone was basically passing my words off as their own - not to say they are brilliant or anything - but I put a lot of work into them - and I can tell you right now that if I happened to run across someone plagiarising my words I'd be very quickly finding out what action I could take. What many of them who do it don't seem to realise is just how much trouble they can get into - both legally and financially, and I think places like myLot where they do it could also find themselves in a spot of bother. Sorry went on a bit of a rant there, for what was pretty much a tongue-in-cheek discussion - but it peeves me :-)

Yep, I miss the good old days when you had to work at it. I mean, these days, you can get college papers from just anywhere. I remember having to do almost as much work to find a good one as it would have taken to write it for the person who was paying me for it myself! *laughs* I can't imagine wanting to use someone else's words in a discussion forum like this anyway, but if I did, I would definitely be more intelligent about it than some of the people I've seen. Not only are some of them factually incorrect or poorly written, but many copy-and-pasters seem to only read about one sentence of the original post. Meaning they're often off-topic as well. As usual, you are scathing and clever. =p

Ah, the sarcasm! Gotta love it. Keep up the good editorials, my day has just been made.

The internet is the breeding ground for fools, didn't you get that memo? People seem to think that if it is on the internet then it must be true, because who would lie to the world. they seem to forget that they are in the process of doing something not only illegal, but also immoral. Of course they just probably aren't smart enough to catch the similarities. realistically, even the most unintelligent person can learn how to get around the internet, and they believe that since something is online, it must be free for all to use in whatever fashion they want. I bet a lot of them don't even know the words, plagerize or copyright. Add that to assuming everything on the internet is accuarate, and viola, you have the innaccurate things spreading like wildfire, which of course just gives more credibility to it.

Well I think they may be now more proud of themselves!;) I guess this means they never did their homework diligently, stubborn as always. I were their teacher, I would surely give them an "E", for putting up less effort and posting misleading informations. To all dummies out there, make sure you make good use of your copy/pasting method wisely. Whenever you get caught, atleast you're proud that you did make a good use of the art of plagiarism! LoL

I know that I rarely reply to your posts, but that seems to be because you've said it all. This is a classic misskatonic post. Well written, well said, well done. What more can I say.

Copy and paste, an art in itself, Those who think they can easily master this technique will find themselves out of their depths as only a true master can execute this technique correctly, Also the training involved in such a technique is astronomical as it takes lots of time and effort to master The point of this technique, the mastery of copy and paste, is to be able to execute it without your foe realising it has been done, as a poor execution can always be spotted. (Damn i wish i could copy and paste because techinque is a really long word to have to spell over and over) ;)

Yea i agree somewhat wid u...its like the meal is served but u cant eat it properly...evrything is there in front of u but u fail to grab it properly...its like people cant do spoon-feeding at times....

I was part of an interesting discussion a couple of weeks ago-- we were talking about the perception of "truth." Someone pointed out that in ancient times (stone age-ish) knowledge was passed in the oral tradition, from one generation to the next, where it was interpreted in the context of personal experience. When writing came along, the intent was to preserve old teachings. But something interesting happened-- people started to value the written word as "more true" than direct experience. In the most simplistic terms, Fred feels hot because it's 80 degrees, but in the written tablets it says that "80 degrees is not hot," so Fred actually questions his direct experience because it it WRITTEN that 80 degrees isn't hot. I expect that the C&P-ers haven't evolved a whole lot from that point...