Timeline for How to handle user that seems to just copy existing answers?
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| Aug 22, 2015 at 5:55 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | @anon0909: Plagiarism is explicitly against site policy. See math.stackexchange.com/help/referencing. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 23:09 | comment | added | hardmath | @anon0909: Plagiarism is copying without attribution. The license to SE content is Creative Commons with Attribution. There is a link (in fine print) to this at the bottom of essentially every SE page, including this one. I cannot imagine your reasons for thinking those here "concerned about plagiarism [are] on the wrong website." | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 5:10 | comment | added | Milo Brandt | @anon0909 Far as I can see, this question is asking only about two identical answers to the same question. Your argument does not apply to the discussion at hand. (That said, if you find that a question already has a good answer elsewhere on the site, you should mark the question as a duplicate, not copy the answer) | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 5:01 | comment | added | anon01 | There's no difference. You say yourself: "the notion still irks me of blatantly copying someone else's work under your own name." That defines plagiarism. But if even the language us clarified, then its a better answer. The is not a website dedicated to the valor of who knows more first. | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 4:49 | comment | added | miradulo | @anon0909 I think there's a pretty noteworthy distinction between what you're describing and what I am describing. | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 4:36 | comment | added | anon01 | This is a question of whether copying answers is improper behavior. If the concern isn't about plagiarism, then what's the problem? | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 4:31 | comment | added | miradulo | @anon0909 Where did he say anything about plagiarism in the manner you're describing it in? | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 4:28 | comment | added | anon01 | No. This is not a website dedicated to original research, and your reputation is based on correctly answering questions, not a measure of your originality or ingenuity. If you're concerned about plagiarism, you're on the wrong website. This is a question and answer website. If two questions have the same answer, it is more helpful to post the answer directly on the webpage of the posed question than a link to another page. | |
| Aug 16, 2015 at 18:08 | vote | accept | miradulo | ||
| Aug 16, 2015 at 17:56 | history | edited | Milo Brandt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2015 at 17:24 | history | answered | Milo Brandt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |