| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | numbah16tdhaha (162)
05/07/2008 | Actually, there is a good way to check out suspicious reviews. GOOGLE. Just plug in a phrase and see if it pulls up something besides the review.
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 | MariusQelDroma (37)
05/06/2008 | Numbah is right. Google is a powerful tool, especially if you can tell the engine to match the entire phrase as it appears, and not just the individual words in the phrase. I forget the syntax, but I'll update this when I remember how. :)
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 | lmorovan (19)
05/06/2008 | Find a way to enforce the rule and enforce it. But then, you would need a whole full time legion of computer geeks to investigate each and every review for possible plagiarism. Unpractical.
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 | irishgit (155)
04/23/2008 | As long as its acknowledged, I don't see the problem. I've seen direct steals from Wikipedia and other sources though, and that strikes me as the height of laziness.
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 | daedalus (34)
02/07/2006 | BIGBABY is right in that it is probably very difficult to police. That still does not mean you should do it. The "Little Known facts about Chuck Norris" list that is on the hottest weblists category right now is a complete plagiarism, or at least it was until PzKpfw VI E credited the web site he copied it from. Of course he had to give me some condescending credit for showing him his, as he puts it, "mistake" in the lists new description. Like I have said before, "you've been weighed in the balance and found wanting." ~Johnny Cash
He is not the only one though. One of the more prolific reviewers/weblist makers puts out a lot of stuff that looks like he scanned it from a book (often an encyclopedia) and then copied and pasted it to a web list. I don't mind people doing this if they really think it is that interesting, but at least credit the source you copied it from.
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 | BIGBABY (11)
02/21/2005 | How can this be enforced or checked? For all I know, people are simply copying and pasting from websites.
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 | Flick01 (73)
08/26/2004 | Those times when I use someone else's work, such as my post on the I Libertine literary hoax, I give credit to the person or persons where I got the information. The reason that I would use someone else's words on an opinion oriented website is to show why I formed a certain opinion. When I wrote my post about Republicans being pioneers in the civil rights movement my opinion was backed up by facts from an African American writer (R.D. Davis) from Project 21 and I credited him at the end of the post. In order to show how I arrived at my opinion I sometimes use information provided by others but if the mix of their information outweighs my off the cuff comments then I feel the need to credit the source.
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 | abichara (66)
01/08/2004 | If you're going to post material on the site that's not yours, at least tell us where its coming from. When I give my opinions, I usually don't rely on other sources for my information. This is an opinion website, not a site to post graduate dissertations. I try to write so that everyone can understand what I'm saying. Additionally, when people start citing, usually the comment becomes a rant without purpose. Brevity is an art sometimes.
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 | VirileVagabond (38)
11/28/2003 | One of the suggestions listed on RateItAll list for improvements to the site is expert reviews. Posting a comment/review that is not one's own essentially hides an expert review in amateur clothing resulting in many of the problems discussed for that item. Moreover, posting the thoughts and ideas of someone else is not one's own opinion which is what we want here. In other words, if one must rely on another's words to convey a message, one probably should not be rating much less commenting on an item. The bottom line is that while posting another's words on RateItAll is not the end of the world and other rules are more important (eg multiple accounts), plagiarism does erode the integrity of this site.
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 | mikeholly93 (11)
11/26/2003 | Plagarism is wrong and it is cheating!
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 | kamylienne (84)
11/10/2003 | I've posted content from other sources before--however, I put a link up from my source (usually somewhere from cnn.com). Quoting something isn't a problem--pretending like you're the one who made it up is.
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 | magellan (179)
11/10/2003 | Apparently this was a big problem on epinions where they pay people for reviews. Reviewers would find a product review online somewhere, and copy and paste it in, trying to get paid. As RIA does not pay people, it doesn't seem to be a big issue. But in terms of integrity of postings, it would seem reasonable that if you are posting something as your own words, it should be your own words.
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