'Exile' accused of plagiarism (???)

Plagiarism on the Net

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Plagiarism on the Net

Postby Kelvin Throop » Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:57 pm

My recent post on "Mindfulness Education" has been cut and pasted in it's entirity and posted here. I'm obviously happy to be quoted but what is the point of just repeating the entire post? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I suppose.

Editted to fix link

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Re: Plagiarism on the Net

Postby ZackDavies » Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:56 pm

Hi Kelvin,

It looks like your link is broken. Not sure whether this is intentional (like when people post "hxxp" links to stop anti-vaxxers seeing who's linking to their site), so maybe you don't want to fix it. But if anyone else is interested, add ".com" after "blogspot" and it'll work.

That's a weird-ass "blog" - 750 posts this year, mainly videos. I can't see any coherent point to it. If it seemed like the product of a rational mind, and if they hadn't linked back to your article using links with your name in, I'd be more inclined to call it plagiarism. As it is, I think it's just spreading the word with lax attribution practice.

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Boys, boys, boys
1/ Linking back to your blog post cancels out the plagiarism accusation...
2/ I felt that it WAS an important point that you were making, so DO consider it flattery
3/ It's 'edited'
4/ 'Weird-ass' blog...one of the nicest things that anyone has ever said about 'Exile'
5/ I agree, my mind is NOT rational!
6/ Mostly videos? I think not and if someone wants to do the maths for those 750 posts we may discover the real reason why it is called the "Bad Science' forum
7/ It may not be 'coherent' but it sure looks pretty
8/ 'Lax attribution'? I think not when as I say I link back directly to your blog post


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