Topic: Moderator Xal0lex - Informal Plagiarist (Read 278 times)
Topic closed
Quote from: Hhampuz
Make a minimum of 25 eligible (constructive) posts each week that you participate to receive a payment.
When Hhampuz published the rules and talked about constructive posts, he meant constructive posts made by a campaign participant and not by a journalist of one of the news resources. Here's an example, or just check the post history of this moderator as it consists entirely of such posts!
I don't understand the language and don't want to evaluate someone's post is worthy or not worthy then let it to the respective members. @Hhampuz please take care of it.
Do you understand what you said? He publishes 25 such posts a week, completely copied from news sites, adding one or two small quotes and adding a link in the hope that this content will not be considered plagiarism.
Whether we like it or not, current forum stance is that as long as you share source link you can copy/paste as much as you want, even word for word and you won't fall under plagiarism rule. With that being said, I do think that this is a bad practice and that senior forum members should know better and format copied text properly so that the difference between own words and copied material is noticed immediately. The way it is formatted in the example you shared is indeed misleading and sets bad example for others, especially new members who might think that this is a proper way to deal with copied content.
Your source doesn't work that link doesn't open for me. From what I've known about the mod mentioned, you're not the first one to call them out for something like this. Secondly, Theymos wouldn't make someone plagiarising content off the internet as a mod on bitcointalk. Let's just wait for them to respond.
Theymos will not reply in this thread! And the link doesn't work because your ISP is blocking this Russian news site, try a VPN. - Before posting stupid reasoning, please first check the source, by copying and pasting the text that I have highlighted in red.
Your source doesn't work that link doesn't open for me. From what I've known about the mod mentioned, you're not the first one to call them out for something like this. Secondly, Theymos wouldn't make someone plagiarising content off the internet as a mod on bitcointalk. Let's just wait for them to respond.
I don't understand Russian so I can't really determine the accuracy of that post in terms of plagiarism but
- I marked the text that the moderator claims to be his own
- I marked quotes
- Before posting stupid reasoning, please first check the source, by copying and pasting the text that I have highlighted in red.
A post can be constructive and still have references to other sources. If I have some question and someone links me to a blog or just quotes some text from the blog I'd be glad that someone did their research and linked me to correct content.
Do you understand what you said? He publishes 25 such posts a week, completely copied from news sites, adding one or two small quotes and adding a link in the hope that this content will not be considered plagiarism. Xal0lex hopes that the campaign manager does not understand Russian and will find these messages constructive. If I were the campaign manager, I would definitely think that the bulk of the text of these messages was written by Xal0lex
I don't understand Russian so I can't really determine the accuracy of that post in terms of plagiarism but
Quote
When Hhampuz published the rules and talked about constructive posts, he meant constructive posts made by a campaign participant and not by a journalist of one of the news resources.
A post can be constructive and still have references to other sources. If I have some question and someone links me to a blog or just quotes some text from the blog I'd be glad that someone did their research and linked me to correct content. Jump to: