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Absolutely not, and I don't mind or feel bad about doing it.(selecting no best answer) I see it as an opportunity to help another user see what we are looking for here on Mahalo Answers and what they will want to improve upon to get a best answer.
If a question of mine receives one answer and it is plagiarized I will offer them the help of the Copy and Pasting on Mahalo guide and explain to the member who gave the answer that this is the reason I am selecting no best answer.
Best answers here get indexed by Google and awarding a best answer to a plagiarized answer leaves a permanent image of that broken law and inferior answer on the face of Mahalo forever.
Selecting no best answer removes the question and answer from the index and it not reflected in Mahalo's overall ranking.
Plagiarism should be reported, especially if it is a pattern with a particular user.
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It's illegal for a reason...a lot of people should take the time to read up on the true definition of plagiarism.
Good question...makes you think.
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I don't believe we're under any obligation to tip a poor answer, even if the question only received one answer.
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http://hubpages.com/profile/joecseko
There are several venues that I take when see plagiarism without the appropriate entity credited for such. Many authors will actually have some contact information (usually an online form) to report the theft of their intellectual property. I've done this many times!
Especially when you're a part of a community, like Mahalo etc, you become tuned to the style, accuracy, use of grammar-punctuation etc. that a user will use. If I see someone step way out of these parameters, I immediately copy several lines and paste them to Google. You WILL find the source!
I'll immediately contact the site's abuse team and even offer a link as to where that information came from. Plagiarism is stealing! If that information might be protected under other laws, I'll follow through with the appropriate law enforcement entity.
Rutgers University offers this discussion.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=4&ved=0CBcQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewark.rutgers.edu%2F~ehrlich%2Fplagiarism598.html&ei=fWjeSrXsOo-alAfMyoyoAw&usg=AFQjCNHgEUQWN9gUec3Kq_hGF_dn_ZJXLw&sig2=Jo0gBYH6Wpmoc6q138yJJg
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October 20, 2009 07:23 PM
If a question you post gets only one answer, and although that answer is good, it is plagiarized, do you pick it as best answer?
Plagiarism is both illegal and unethical. What would you do if the only answer to your question is copy/pasted from a source? Would you choose it as "best answer" (assuming it correctly answers your question)? Would you report it? Would you vote "no best answer"? Would your answers to the above change if the answerer provides the source, but the answer includes no original words or ideas relative to the source?
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| October 20, 2009 07:36 PM |
If a question of mine receives one answer and it is plagiarized I will offer them the help of the Copy and Pasting on Mahalo guide and explain to the member who gave the answer that this is the reason I am selecting no best answer.
Best answers here get indexed by Google and awarding a best answer to a plagiarized answer leaves a permanent image of that broken law and inferior answer on the face of Mahalo forever.
Selecting no best answer removes the question and answer from the index and it not reflected in Mahalo's overall ranking.
Plagiarism should be reported, especially if it is a pattern with a particular user.
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• Thank you for a comprehensive, well crafted, and thoughtful answer. I hope it is incorporated into Mahalo's instructions for people answering questions, as well as for people rating those answers.
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October 20, 2009 07:35 PM
This is true GIVEN you have proper citation and follow the copy and pasting rules. If it's just a copy and paste no source, no nothin' then it's another story.
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October 20, 2009 07:41 PM
If you read http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_plagiarism.html you will see (among many other good examples) that plagiarism includes "failing to put a quotation in quotation marks" and "copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not."
Thus, if you include the source but fail to put quotation marks around it, or even if you quote the source and place quotation marks around the quoted text, but add few or no words of your own to expand, analyze, explain, etc. the quoted text, it is still plagiarism.
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Thus, if you include the source but fail to put quotation marks around it, or even if you quote the source and place quotation marks around the quoted text, but add few or no words of your own to expand, analyze, explain, etc. the quoted text, it is still plagiarism.
October 20, 2009 07:35 PM
I would let someone know that it was plagiarized and I would select no best answer, while making a comment on that answer so when others come in to vote fair or unfair they will see why I made my decision. It's illegal for a reason...a lot of people should take the time to read up on the true definition of plagiarism.
Good question...makes you think.
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October 20, 2009 08:42 PM
There is a distinct difference between plagarism, a properly quoted source and a poorly quoted source. If the answer is plagerized, I would post a polite comment stating as such and hope the original poster would make a correction. Same with a poorly quoted answer. I don't believe we're under any obligation to tip a poor answer, even if the question only received one answer.
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October 21, 2009 01:55 AM
Being an artist (musician) and regular online publisher, plagiarism strikes a very sour chord with me! http://hubpages.com/profile/joecseko
There are several venues that I take when see plagiarism without the appropriate entity credited for such. Many authors will actually have some contact information (usually an online form) to report the theft of their intellectual property. I've done this many times!
Especially when you're a part of a community, like Mahalo etc, you become tuned to the style, accuracy, use of grammar-punctuation etc. that a user will use. If I see someone step way out of these parameters, I immediately copy several lines and paste them to Google. You WILL find the source!
I'll immediately contact the site's abuse team and even offer a link as to where that information came from. Plagiarism is stealing! If that information might be protected under other laws, I'll follow through with the appropriate law enforcement entity.
Rutgers University offers this discussion.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=4&ved=0CBcQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewark.rutgers.edu%2F~ehrlich%2Fplagiarism598.html&ei=fWjeSrXsOo-alAfMyoyoAw&usg=AFQjCNHgEUQWN9gUec3Kq_hGF_dn_ZJXLw&sig2=Jo0gBYH6Wpmoc6q138yJJg
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I hope that if another user asks a question and receives a plagiarized answer that they will be the one who adds the comment and reports the user but that is not always the case and I have reported a users answer even if it was not on my question. Plagiarism really gets under my skin.
I would think the staff with the best interest of Mahalo in mind would never be inclined to think we reported plagiarism too much. They have never been anything but receptive and thankful to me for reporting any violation including plagiarism.
In Mahalo Terms of Service number 11 in Basic Terms states;
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You must not, in the use of the Services, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including, but not limited to, proprietary rights and copyright laws).
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So in reporting plagiarism one should use the "Violation of Terms of Service" selection.
Click here to vote helpful on the nomination I gave him. Go ahead @buddawiggi, go and vote helpful on the nomination I gave you, you deserve it.
I put warnings in my profile for members not to "cut and paste." I don't like to select "No best answer", so I vote "Unhelpful" or "Incomplete".