DO NOT SIMPLY COPY AN ENTIRE ARTICLE

[p1ngpong]

People have had several days now to adjust their news posting habits accordingly to comply with this request.

From now on any blatant plagiaristic USN news articles I see will be locked and their OP's trashed.

 

[chartube12]

Many forums copy and paste their articles. Long has you post quotes and a link, your not do anything illegal. GBATEMP is already behind with the version of VB they are using. Bet they haven't updated the servers in awhile too and this is a tempt to lower resource usage. Making a new rule of article posting is fine and all, but don't fucking lying about the real reason behind it!

 

[Rydian]

Many forums copy and paste their articles. Long has you post quotes and a link, your not do anything illegal. GBATEMP is already behind with the version of VB they are using. Bet they haven't updated the servers in awhile too and this is a tempt to lower resource usage. Making a new rule of article posting is fine and all, but don't fucking lying about the real reason behind it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat

So I'm guessing you missed the normal posters who are in agreement?

And this thread?
http://gbatemp.net/topic/326613-plagiarism/

And the mention of other sites that actually WERE getting into legal trouble for copy-pasting articles?

Jesus christ.

 

[raulpica]

Many forums copy and paste their articles. Long has you post quotes and a link, your not do anything illegal. GBATEMP is already behind with the version of VB they are using. Bet they haven't updated the servers in awhile too and this is a tempt to lower resource usage. Making a new rule of article posting is fine and all, but don't fucking lying about the real reason behind it!

Huh. We're under the latest version of iP.Board, and the servers are in the best shape in YEARS.

But maybe you're right there's a conspiracy, I fe- OH GAWD, PLEASE DROP THAT GUN COSTY, DON'T HURT ME

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

*bang*

 

[chartube12]

I guess I'll find a better forum for my gaming needs. gbatemp has jumped the shark with this new outrageous ruling.

 

[prowler]

I guess I'll find a better forum for my gaming needs. gbatemp has jumped the shark with this new outrageous ruling.

AND NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST.

 

[Wizerzak]

I think i get it but... what if the article you're sourcing is really short itself? (eg Eurogamer news). Are we then allowed to copy the entire article?

 

[Gahars]

I guess I'll find a better forum for my gaming needs. gbatemp has jumped the shark with this new outrageous ruling.

If you think this, of all things, is "jumping the shark" then the temp clearly doesn't need you anyway.

 

[prowler]

I think i get it but... what if the article you're sourcing is really short itself? (eg Eurogamer news). Are we then allowed to copy the entire article?

heres an idea: use your own words

 

[Wizerzak]

I think i get it but... what if the article you're sourcing is really short itself? (eg Eurogamer news). Are we then allowed to copy the entire article?

heres an idea: use your own words

I always put my own thoughts after the article but I feel re-writing an entire article would
1) Waste far too much time seeing as you're simply re-writing what has already been written
2) Create a strong bias in nearly every article posted in USN seeing as most people on the temp have... strong views....

 

[prowler]

I think i get it but... what if the article you're sourcing is really short itself? (eg Eurogamer news). Are we then allowed to copy the entire article?

heres an idea: use your own words

I always put my own thoughts after the article but I feel re-writing an entire article would
1) Waste far too much time seeing as you're simply re-writing what has already been written
2) Create a strong bias in nearly every article posted in USN seeing as most people on the temp have... strong views....

i did it im sure you could too.

 

[p1ngpong]

Bet they haven't updated the servers in awhile too and this is a tempt to lower resource usage. Making a new rule of article posting is fine and all, but don't fucking lying about the real reason behind it!

When we updated the forum software recently we also got an extra server along with it to cope with the load. The old server handles 33% of board functions while the new, far more powerful server, handles the remaining 66%.

So yeah, shows how much you know.

I beg you don't cry.

AHAHAHAHA

;O;

 

[Wizerzak]

I think i get it but... what if the article you're sourcing is really short itself? (eg Eurogamer news). Are we then allowed to copy the entire article?

heres an idea: use your own words

I always put my own thoughts after the article but I feel re-writing an entire article would
1) Waste far too much time seeing as you're simply re-writing what has already been written
2) Create a strong bias in nearly every article posted in USN seeing as most people on the temp have... strong views....

i did it im sure you could too.

Some of us have lives you know?
Isn't the main reason that USN exists to stimulate discussion about news within GBAtemp? In which case why does it matter so much about the OP? It's WHAT they post that matters, not who wrote it.

 

[p1ngpong]

I think i get it but... what if the article you're sourcing is really short itself? (eg Eurogamer news). Are we then allowed to copy the entire article?

heres an idea: use your own words

I always put my own thoughts after the article but I feel re-writing an entire article would
1) Waste far too much time seeing as you're simply re-writing what has already been written
2) Create a strong bias in nearly every article posted in USN seeing as most people on the temp have... strong views....

i did it im sure you could too.

Some of us have lives you know?
Isn't the main reason that USN exists to stimulate discussion about news within GBAtemp? In which case why does it matter so much about the OP? It's WHAT they post that matters, not who wrote it.

Nobody is expecting you to re-write an ENTIRE article, just to not plagiarize the entire thing (which was what a lot of people were doing recently) and write a brief synopsis of a couple of sentences of the essence of the news you are posting. This shouldn't take more than a few minutes of your precious life.

I also beg you not to cry.

;O;

 

[raulpica]

I guess I'll find a better forum for my gaming needs. gbatemp has jumped the shark with this new outrageous ruling.

What do you have against humour? You monster

 

[jurassicplayer]

I guess I'll find a better forum for my gaming needs. gbatemp has jumped the shark with this new outrageous ruling.

I can't help but think that leaving due to your believe that news should be copy/pasted is a really piss poor reason. Yet, at the same time, for coming up with said piss poor reason I would rather not do anything to stop you from leaving.

Some of us have lives you know?
Isn't the main reason that USN exists to stimulate discussion about news within GBAtemp? In which case why does it matter so much about the OP? It's WHAT they post that matters, not who wrote it.

I have life. I never read shit about any USN template. I stole my news from DS-Scene and totally didn't source them (I used their source as my source). And you know what? My post STILL follows the template somehow, because the template is fucking generic and easy to do. Are you seriously telling me that you want to just post news to get e-peen, or do you actually want to ADD SOME THOUGHT to your opening post and just start off with your own thoughts first and just have people check the source if they want to know the full details.
To make things shorter. I have been given a great idea...no, a FAAAAAAABULOUS!! idea if I say so myself. With this splendid method, you don't have to type up the article, you don't have to summarize, you don't even have to fucking copy/paste. Just write your opinion, add link to source, discuss. Yes, you have a life. So stop wasting it by copy/pasting and just get to the fucking point.

 

[Another World]

Some of us have lives you know?

oh yeah, play THAT card. it really takes up so much of your free time to type out 5 sentences and link back to a source page for more information. if you can't type out 2-5 news articles in under 20 minutes you are doing something wrong.

Isn't the main reason that USN exists to stimulate discussion about news within GBAtemp? In which case why does it matter so much about the OP? It's WHAT they post that matters, not who wrote it.

copying from another site is blatantly illegal. not all sites will copyright their content, not all sites will even care... while commonsense is apparently absent for most of the internet, we simply ask that isn't here.

we want original content. we wanted it 2 years ago. its only now that the level of plagiarism reached an all time high and some of the staff decided to start discussing it. the result of said discussions was to enforce the rule... don't copy/pate instead spend a few minutes summarizing your thoughts.

lets face it, it looks really bad when content is copy and pasted. it makes the poster look lazy and it reflects poorly on the quality of the site.

is the issue here that you feel its to much work for users to check a source link for a more in depth version of the story? do you feel that summarizing into your own words doesn't do the story justice?

-another world

 

[Rydian]

If you don't have enough time to write a few sentences when posting a thread, then do you even have enough time to post a thread?

 

[gloweyjoey]

I also just wanted to add that when I posted something in USN I was not posting it in hopes to get it put on the front page, and im also positive that others also were not posting articles simply to have them put on the front page. Just saying. From what I gather, we can still copy and paste articles but just not in USN as every thread in the USN is apparently submitted for front page approval( I remember having to click on something for this before).

 

[prowler]

I also just wanted to add that when I posted something in USN I was not posting it in hopes to get it put on the front page, and im also positive that others also were not posting articles simply to have them put on the front page. Just saying. From what I gather, we can still copy and paste articles but just not in USN as every thread in the USN is apparently submitted for front page approval( I remember having to click on something for this before).

no, that option is useless anyway

you cant copy and paste anywhere on the forum.
p1ngpong has been locking threads in general off topic etc