Thanks for discouraging plagiarism, @bigdizzle91. Plagiarism is stealing other people's works. This includes photographs, though. I'm not sure why you say using photographer's or individual's images from the web is okay. I always take my own pictures. Why should you get to use someone else's photo just because it's easy to cut and paste it? If you leave your keys in your car, should I just drive it away?
Also, you shouldn't even be stealing short complete sentences from Wikipedia as in your example. That's plagiarism as well.
Hopefully someone will develop a blockchain solution that tracks people's original works better so that people can't just copy and paste for their own gain.
Until then, we should be vigilant and report abuses, and not reward offenders. This will help ensure Steemit's success and good reputation.
because if you take something as simple as " so and so is 10 cm long" there isnt really another way to word it, it is simply the information. there is no way for me to say it other than that.
when i say photograph i mean more of a meme. not go to someones photography blog and steal the photos they use. however when finding a photograph on the internet it can be hard to determine who took it. most blogs or image hosting services dont give credit so there isn't really a way to do it. if you know exactly where its from then sure credit the owner but if all you have is a link that looks like www.imgur.com/image_2369169275 its kind of pointless.
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