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**Vanilla** · (This post was last modified: 11-25-2010 04:54 PM by Vanilla.)

Recently, a lot of people have been copy & pasting a fair amount of news from news sites and thus scoring easy post points. While this isn't against the rules, it is against the rules not provide article sources (See rule §3 under Additional Rules.)

Furthermore, if/when you copy & pasty articles from websites, it's common that some image material names is included along. Please either remove or correct these links.

A third thing is, that you are advised to remove any textual ads that might be present within the copied news. There is no reason to bring them along.

- Link (R.) and image(L.) tools looks like this:

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[Edit]:
As Copy&Pasting directly is lame, please instead provide a small snippet of the article, please use the quote tool to do this. This isn't a requirement (yet?), but it is recommended. Then afterwards, please provide you're own opinions/comments on what you posted.

The only exception to this, is when you've written the news yourself - If you write it yourself, please try to make it as grammatically correct as possible, so it won't be as painful to read, and if possible make use of correct formatting.

Thank you!
- Vanilla

2348z · 11-22-2010, 11:32 PM

I'm glad, you posted this. Even though I know about this. lol

**Vanilla** · 11-23-2010, 12:43 AM

(11-22-2010 11:32 PM)2348z Wrote: I'm glad, you posted this. Even though I know about this. lol

Sadly, there is a lot of people that doesn't know :/

2348z · 11-24-2010, 05:30 AM

I know bud, it's a shame too.

**Zack** · 11-24-2010, 10:11 AM

To be honest, I would prefer that we dont copypasta at all, it hurts our PageRank.

**Matt M** · 11-25-2010, 12:17 PM

Ugh, don't copy/paste. Not cool to steal content even if you provide credit.

**Zack** · 11-25-2010, 02:13 PM

+1 what Matt said. The point of News is to facilitate discussion about world happenings, not to syndicate articles from online newspWrite your own take on a story, link to some sources, and watch the discussion flourish.

**Matt M** · 11-26-2010, 10:39 AM

Yeah, and people will love you more Wink

**Zack** · 11-26-2010, 11:14 AM

(: Nice, Matt.

**HiddenKnowledge** · 11-26-2010, 06:01 PM

Quote:As Copy&Pasting directly is lame, please instead provide a small snippet of the article, please use the quote tool to do this. This isn't a requirement (yet?), but it is recommended. Then afterwards, please provide you're own opinions/comments on what you posted.

I agree with that one. Smile