February 3, 2005
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
4:50 PM (Pacific)
lol...I looked that up because I really was not sure myself, if, say, taking ideas from a public forum and presenting them on another forum, without crediting the source of those ideas, was or was not plagiarism.
I mean people swap ideas on forums all the time. I guess what disturbed me was the notion of taking many ideas from forum A, then presenting them on forum B (where presumably people have not read the content on forum A) as if the ideas were original, while at the same time badmouthing forum A on forum B...did that, aside from exhibiting an utter lack of class, constitute plagiarism...as opposed to, say, imitation as the sincerest form of flattery?
The answer appears to lie in crediting your source. The problem with this type of person is that eventually, they will not only take credit for your ideas, they will also (when fewer and fewer people remain who know the truth) begin to accuse you of copying them.
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