A problem of plagiarism. Not only of content but also of photographs.

astroNikon · Aug 8, 2014

KmH said:
An easy way to check to see if some text has been plagarized: Copy the first line of the text and Google it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Plagiarism+is+a+serious+problem+of+modern+times%2C+especially+with+the+commonness+of+the+Internet%2C+when+everyone+has+an+unlimited+access+to+the+information+in+the+media.&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS553US553&oq=Plagiarism+is+a+serious+problem+of+modern+times%2C+especially+with+the+commonness+of+the+Internet%2C+when+everyone+has+an+unlimited+access+to+the+information+in+the+media.&aqs=chrome..69i57.1464j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=0&ie=UTF-8

Many people when they plagerize often reword text. But as the article goes on they do less and less of it. So I normally check later lines of text and search for it.

snowbear · Aug 8, 2014

The first time something is written, it's originality.
The second time it's written, it's plagiarism.
The third time, it's research.
The fourth time, it's folklore.

astroNikon · Aug 8, 2014

snowbear said:
The first time something is written, it's originality.
The second time it's written, it's plagiarism.
The third time, it's research.
The fourth time, it's folklore.

I prefer my rendition of it

The first time something is written, it's originality.
The second time it's written, it's plagiarism.
The third time, it's research.
The fourth time, it's folklore

:mrgreen:

Derrel · Aug 8, 2014

manaheim said:
Copying an article about plagiarism would be seriously awesome, and I think that would also fit the actual use of the term ironic.

Indeed, that would be ironic. Just for amusement, we could read this article and at the same exact time, we could listen to Alanis Morrisette's song "Ironic" and get all bummed out and stuff. It'd be an awesome pity party kind of mood. Speaking of plagiarism, we just had a United States candidate for political office step down from a high-level political campaign because of revelations that he had plagiarized when he was a student writing a research paper at one of the US military academies.