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Jun-18-2007 17:17

"To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source." (Source: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary)

People who copy and paste holus bolus other people's already approved Random Mystery intro's into their own and then claim them as their own...

SUCK!

I can't make it any clearer than that :)

Jun-18-2007 17:22

Though the guy whose intro simply reads "Sleuth Admin is a total jerk", it's OK, it's not plagiarism to repeat a long held principle. :D :p

Jun-18-2007 17:24

Yeah, you have no idea how many times we see this... and to be frankly honest, we ALWAYS catch it. I won't say how, as we editors know how, but we ALWAYS catch it.

Don't do it. It's stupid.

And, as SS says, people who plagiarize SUCK.

Jun-19-2007 00:29

Ah come on guys it's not hard to write an intro! If you are struggling with the coding pm me, I may be able to help but for goodness sake at least take a few minutes to come up with your own idea! They're short, you can get inspiration from anything, your Sunday roast being interupted by a phone call, a hot air ballon falling out of the sky and trashing your office after being shot down by suspected duck hunters.... hey hang on there... that one isn't bad...

*Stooby picks up a pen and gets scribbling*

Jun-19-2007 08:11

And to anyone thinking of nicking the balloon idea, don't bother I've already written it... bet you can't wait to read that one!!!

Jun-26-2007 02:05

How about 'darker than a carload of assholes'? Please! Let me steal!

I kid, but still, how about the 'borrowing' of phrases such as that?

Jun-26-2007 06:02

lol. Yeah I think that passes. Whether it slides on past the sensors (like it just did right now) is another matter :D

Jun-27-2007 06:21

i must say i have to agree with SS and Jojo and Stooby on the fact that plagarism isn't good... if you were taught in school properly, you'd fail your classes if all you did was plagarize... but i can guarantee that other writing areas are no different. so the point is, don't do it... then it won't be a problem... heck, even i come up with my own intros and such.

Jun-27-2007 10:35

In regards to Plagarism, I just got a little freaked out. I've been writing a scripted mystery for the past couple days, and it's based on Phantom of the Opera, but with different characters and plot twists.

I denounce all uncredited "borrowing" of text, so I limited mine to the title and the Phantom himself.

Is this still acceptable? I'm very nearly finished with it, because I just played a trial run of it and am in the process of fleshing it out. I don't want to find that it's violating the plagarism rule! XD That would be bad. :D

So, thankies for reading! G'Day!

-La La

Sep-6-2007 21:25

So, how do you (the editor's ) know if someone just happens to have the same idea as someone else? They just used different words/phrases to decribe the same thing. That is to say, what if........for the sake of argument.....that two people had the same intro (different words/phrase/etc - but basically, the same story), but had NO KNOWLEDGE of the other one? Would that still be considered plagiarism? Or would that be considered "Great Minds Think Alike"?

- Cali

Sep-6-2007 21:27

There is a difference between having one or two of the same ideas and having all of the same ideas, in the same order, playing out to the same idea in the end, with every detail having been the same idea too.

Does that make sense?