Copying Guidelines

[Corleone]

Have you ever seen two sites with identical guidelines? Perhaps one copied the guidelines from the other. I've been seeing this on the rise lately, and I've always thought it looks very poorly on the site and the owner. Thoughts?

 

[Sakura]

Yah I have before some forums copy Nebulous guidelines I noticed I hate that it happens its not hard to write your own.

 

[Tom]

I've never seen rules copied word for word [But I also never paid attention], though I have seen some closely related. And, well, that is to be expected. How much different can they be?

 

[Nebulous]

Its not right to copy&paste someone else's stuff without their permission and/or without proper credit given. Whether it be guidelines/rules or just a simple post.

Plagiarism is unethical.



You can take an idea and re-write it in your own words and that would be fine I suppose.

 

[Tom]

Of course, Nebulous, but how different do you expect forum guidelines/rules to differ? All of them are generic... I mean, some are definitely more prolonged than others, but many are just the norm...



Be nice, no double posting, etc, etc.

 

[Nebulous]

Of course, Nebulous, but how different do you expect forum guidelines/rules to differ? All of them are generic... I mean, some are definitely more prolonged than others, but many are just the norm...



Be nice, no double posting, etc, etc.

Yes but if someone put time into writing something, someone else should not just highlight all the text, hit copy and paste it onto their own forum.

 

[Jazzy]

If you feel someone is guilty of plagiarism you can use Article Checker. It checks articles and website pages for duplications.

 

[Darek]

I think it's morally wrong, but that's just me.

 

[Dennis]

Of course it's wrong, and that's why they should be either copyrighted or posted as an image. Even though forums that copy guidelines of other forums don't really every get anywhere..

 

[Nathan]

Its not right to copy&paste someone else's stuff without their permission and/or without proper credit given. Whether it be guidelines/rules or just a simple post.

Plagiarism is unethical.



You can take an idea and re-write it in your own words and that would be fine I suppose.

Of course, Nebulous, but how different do you expect forum guidelines/rules to differ? All of them are generic... I mean, some are definitely more prolonged than others, but many are just the norm...



Be nice, no double posting, etc, etc.

Yes but if someone put time into writing something, someone else should not just highlight all the text, hit copy and paste it onto their own forum.

Absolutely spot on, there's nothing more annoying than putting a lot of time and effort into writting something whether it be rules, an article, school report etc. to just have someone copy and paste it.