Copy, Paste or SCRAP IT!

I had just answered to this topic befoe but I am happy to share it with you again, I think there ma be upside and downside in removing the copy and paste picture, some members may not be able to post some good and long articles or recipes if they are not allowed to copay and paste, at the same time, it will prevent plagarism of discussions by another members. So I do not know are there more befefits than harm,what do yo think?

I agree I really get annoyed with people who copy and paste. It is not allowed on here, and if you see someone you should report them.

Well I think that the ability to copy and paste is important to this site for a few reasons. Sometimes I want to respond to only part of someone's discussion. Usually because it is the part that i can relate or add to. So I would copy and paste that part in particular to help with the understanding of my answer. However, I always add the parenthesis to indicate that it is a quote. Another example is when I want to include a pertinent link in my responce or discussion. I may be lazy in this, but I hate typing in URLs because some URLs are not so easy and include many characters that I have to get just right to keep the link working. I also like it if I want to paraphrase an article I find interesting. It is sad that people can abuse this function and cheat the system but there are certainly many valid uses for it. I think with the ability to report obvious plagerisers (spelling?) it lends to users the ability to alert moderators to this and I am sure they deal with it. I can not imagine another way of ridding the site of those problems.

I am not in favour of scrapping anything. I personally don't use the copy and paste feature myself, so it won't really affect me if it is scrapped, but I'm not in favour of that king of "legislation" either. What other people do is their business, not mine. It doesn't matter to me whether it stays or goes.

It would be silly to scrap cut and paste. It is a very useful tool when saving a post before pressing the 'post response' button and something goes wrong and you loose the lot!!! Anyway, if someone wanted to copy your words it would only take them a few seconds to type it out. What's the point? Stopping plaguerism is what is needed.

I don't believe that copy and pasting is the problem here - the problem is people who are thieves, cheaters, and have no morals. These types of people are going to do wrong no matter what. I do use the copy and paste feature and find it very helpful - when I write a discussion I do it in MS Word, spell check it, and then copy it into the myLot window... Is this cheating? NO - it is helping others by my not posting discussions with misspelled words. Scrapping the copy and paste feature is only going to create more junk, rather than quality discussions. Such as people taking other discussions and merely rewording them and collecting money for the same topic. I say rather than punishing those who follow the rules that we need to ALL follow the rules and report cheaters.