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I've done it on Twittersearch questions that I've pulled to promote recipe pages, but I haven't done it in the context of having a "conversation" within the community.
I don't see anything "wrong" with it per se, but I would probably reference the original question in my answer..."As I said previously when so and so asked something similar, ".....".
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On one of those info sites, I believe it was plagiarism.org, I found that this was totally acceptable if you originally wrote the previous (essay was used as an example on the website) it would be answer in your case.
If askers stopped to search for the answer first, then we wouldn't have to worry about this. But I don't think anyone will ever look through the questions past, me included. :D
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You've done the research... and you will probably word it in a similar manner, but by typing it out again, you would word it just a little differently, which, since you use the real life example... would be more natural.
Can you imaging answering a question verbally using the exact same wording? I think it's the same thing here... so I type out each answer even if I'm saying basically the same thing. =)
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September 17, 2009 07:03 PM
Is there anything wrong with giving an identical answer if the question is the same?
In this answer, I gave an almost identical answer to a question that I answered in the past.
This isn't the first time I've done this.
However, I've only done this when the questions are identical.
In my own mind, I've justified this in two ways:
First, if two different people asked me the same question in real life, I would answer it the same way.
Second, I usually put a lot of work into answering questions. High tip questions usually receive a substantial amount of time thinking, researching and writing. If the answer is correct and the question is the same, is there any reason to change the approach of my answer?
Anyone think there was anything wrong with my (almost) copy-and-paste in to answer this question?
This isn't the first time I've done this.
However, I've only done this when the questions are identical.
In my own mind, I've justified this in two ways:
First, if two different people asked me the same question in real life, I would answer it the same way.
Second, I usually put a lot of work into answering questions. High tip questions usually receive a substantial amount of time thinking, researching and writing. If the answer is correct and the question is the same, is there any reason to change the approach of my answer?
Anyone think there was anything wrong with my (almost) copy-and-paste in to answer this question?
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| September 17, 2009 07:12 PM |
I don't see anything "wrong" with it per se, but I would probably reference the original question in my answer..."As I said previously when so and so asked something similar, ".....".
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September 17, 2009 07:14 PM
I think @ssmacd hits it on the head. I'm fine with you using language you've used before for very similar or identical questions, but you should be informing everyone that you're doing so and linking to the previous question. If you're being transparent like that, I see no harm in it.
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September 18, 2009 02:38 AM
There's nothing wrong with that, I have read (had to!) read up on plagiarism for a work I'm doing to make sure I go by the "law". On one of those info sites, I believe it was plagiarism.org, I found that this was totally acceptable if you originally wrote the previous (essay was used as an example on the website) it would be answer in your case.
If askers stopped to search for the answer first, then we wouldn't have to worry about this. But I don't think anyone will ever look through the questions past, me included. :D
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September 18, 2009 04:45 AM
I think because of the value of Mahalo pages in the search engines we should not use the same answer word for word. You've done the research... and you will probably word it in a similar manner, but by typing it out again, you would word it just a little differently, which, since you use the real life example... would be more natural.
Can you imaging answering a question verbally using the exact same wording? I think it's the same thing here... so I type out each answer even if I'm saying basically the same thing. =)
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September 18, 2009 02:31 PM
fair enough. we are all entitled to our opinion. but i will say that it would be seen as duplicate content on google.
no hard feelings though. i think we can agree to disagree on this one, Rob. =)
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no hard feelings though. i think we can agree to disagree on this one, Rob. =)
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If I was talking to someone, I wouldn't say "a few days ago, I answered a question from tktktktk about this". But I might say, "this has come up before and here are what others have said about it".