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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2016 12:56:05 GMT -5
Apart from their new car smell, I hate almost everything about modern cars. There! I said it. I love my 25-year-old car, with a $5 metal key, hand-cranked windows, manual transmission and AM/FM radio. Pretty much a description of my '97 Hyundai Accent (though the keys were more like $1.50), which bit the dust 5 years, 1 month & 2 weeks ago after an 89-year-old driver apparently forgot that red means "stop," not "speed up." The '96 Maxima with which I replaced it is the only car I've ever owned with power windows, power brakes or power steerting, not to mention a moon roof & a remote. The audio went out some 3 1/2 years ago after a bad jump-start attempt. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 28, 2016 19:14:03 GMT -5
Plagiarism of any kind is intellectually dishonest. Despite this, we don't have any actual rules on the board (as far as I know) against it. I would join with the others here and recommend that the "unknown reviewer" submit his/her own reviews so that we get an honest opinion on the material. Otherwise, we could just go to Wikipedia ourselves. This reminds me of a "there, I said it" for questions. Sometimes a poster will ask a question only to have someone answer it with a link. I suppose that anyone could google the original question, but I'd rather have a lively discussion than a link any day. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 28, 2016 19:17:47 GMT -5
I've later seen websites copy the work I've done on Wikipedia verbatim. It's annoying, because there's no attribution. Plus, in the case, don't we want to know what our fellow CCF members think for themselves. Our own genuine thoughts build this community. I noticed a few months ago in one of the panels/art/cover threads (not the contest), someone was regularly posting covers from an informative, well-regarded, archived blog. I suppose it has become "fair game" to reproduce what others have curated (though I think credit should be given)....but the poster was also using the blogger's clever commentary nearly word for word, without indicating the source. From what I have noticed, the poster has since stopped that practice of poaching that blogger's commentary and seems to have become more confident in using his own voice. That's good; like Spoon said, we want to hear what our members genuinely think. I have an idea of who it might be everyone is referring to. Sometimes it's better to have mercy on a person who might not have social skills. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 28, 2016 19:40:59 GMT -5
I noticed a few months ago in one of the panels/art/cover threads (not the contest), someone was regularly posting covers from an informative, well-regarded, archived blog. I suppose it has become "fair game" to reproduce what others have curated (though I think credit should be given)....but the poster was also using the blogger's clever commentary nearly word for word, without indicating the source. From what I have noticed, the poster has since stopped that practice of poaching that blogger's commentary and seems to have become more confident in using his own voice. That's good; like Spoon said, we want to hear what our members genuinely think. I have an idea of who it might be everyone is referring to. Sometimes it's better to have mercy on a person who might not have social skills. And if its someone who is always trying to scream for attention with flashing lights, their name all over the place, more empty postings than there are stars in the heavens? Please, I believe they know right from wrong or at least should be told so. So the next time it happens I will point it out to them and they will need to grow up a bit instead of subjecting ourselves with their antics. Its not fair with the people that worked hard on their reviews like Shax, Cei-U and all the others. And its something CCF should not condone when it is readilly apparent |
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Post by The Captain on Mar 28, 2016 19:48:20 GMT -5
At a time when the art of writing has been assaulted to the point that some schools don't even grade for correct spelling any more (particularly if the student is using Internet shorthand), thoughts are reduced to a specific number of characters in a "hot take", and everything under the sun has an associated hashtag, we now have pictures to substitute for words in our texts. My particular messaging app will actually highlight words that have related pictures in its dictionary, as if I want to put a stupid cartoon drawing of a piece of pizza into my text when I write to my wife to see if she wants to order pizza for dinner.
I hate emojis, and I wish a pox upon whomever decided that they were an acceptable form of communication.
There, I said it.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 28, 2016 20:45:35 GMT -5
I noticed a few months ago in one of the panels/art/cover threads (not the contest), someone was regularly posting covers from an informative, well-regarded, archived blog. I suppose it has become "fair game" to reproduce what others have curated (though I think credit should be given)....but the poster was also using the blogger's clever commentary nearly word for word, without indicating the source. From what I have noticed, the poster has since stopped that practice of poaching that blogger's commentary and seems to have become more confident in using his own voice. That's good; like Spoon said, we want to hear what our members genuinely think. I have an idea of who it might be everyone is referring to. Sometimes it's better to have mercy on a person who might not have social skills. I agree with you, Icc. We don't all process things the same way and a little understanding goes a long way. But fwiw, the person I referred to who previously was obviously lifting his commentary from a comics blog/site is not the same person Ish is referring to. EDIT: To clarify: the poster I was referring to is NOT Mecha. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 28, 2016 21:01:06 GMT -5
If someone wishes to send the offender a PM and ask them to halt that practice, then fine. If I see it continued, I'll ask them cease as well but publicly. Either way, there should not be two different standards on these boards and persistant plagiarism has no place here
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Mar 28, 2016 21:18:17 GMT -5
At a time when the art of writing has been assaulted to the point that some schools don't even grade for correct spelling any more (particularly if the student is using Internet shorthand), thoughts are reduced to a specific number of characters in a "hot take", and everything under the sun has an associated hashtag, we now have pictures to substitute for words in our texts. My particular messaging app will actually highlight words that have related pictures in its dictionary, as if I want to put a stupid cartoon drawing of a piece of pizza into my text when I write to my wife to see if she wants to order pizza for dinner. I hate emojis, and I wish a pox upon whomever decided that they were an acceptable form of communication. There, I said it.    (Just kidding). |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 28, 2016 22:23:41 GMT -5
At a time when the art of writing has been assaulted to the point that some schools don't even grade for correct spelling any more (particularly if the student is using Internet shorthand), thoughts are reduced to a specific number of characters in a "hot take", and everything under the sun has an associated hashtag, we now have pictures to substitute for words in our texts. My particular messaging app will actually highlight words that have related pictures in its dictionary, as if I want to put a stupid cartoon drawing of a piece of pizza into my text when I write to my wife to see if she wants to order pizza for dinner. I hate emojis, and I wish a pox upon whomever decided that they were an acceptable form of communication. There, I said it. x x xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx x x x x x x x x x xxxxxx xxxxxxx x x x x x x x xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx x |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 29, 2016 8:09:40 GMT -5
If someone wishes to send the offender a PM and ask them to halt that practice, then fine. If I see it continued, I'll ask them cease as well but publicly. Either way, there should not be two different standards on these boards and persistant plagiarism has no place here You are of course welcome to communicate with the person in question in any format you choose, within the rules of the forum. If you choose to contact him/her via PM or by commenting in the thread, that's your choice but it must still be within the bounds of civility. Plagiarism has no place here, but neither does negative behavior towards fellow posters.
Let's keep it friendly.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 8:33:59 GMT -5
At a time when the art of writing has been assaulted to the point that some schools don't even grade for correct spelling any more (particularly if the student is using Internet shorthand), thoughts are reduced to a specific number of characters in a "hot take", and everything under the sun has an associated hashtag, we now have pictures to substitute for words in our texts. My particular messaging app will actually highlight words that have related pictures in its dictionary, as if I want to put a stupid cartoon drawing of a piece of pizza into my text when I write to my wife to see if she wants to order pizza for dinner. I hate emojis, and I wish a pox upon whomever decided that they were an acceptable form of communication. There, I said it. I think emojis serve a purpose to emphasize emotion. Not replace words. I don't use them to replace a word for an emotion I wish to express, but I will use them to emphasize an already stated emotion. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 29, 2016 8:47:06 GMT -5
I still use the old school ones from chat rooms in the 90's like :=/ or :-) But I don't use the ones sites provide. I don't like conforming to what the kids are doing nowadays. ;-)
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Post by The Captain on Mar 29, 2016 8:53:58 GMT -5
At a time when the art of writing has been assaulted to the point that some schools don't even grade for correct spelling any more (particularly if the student is using Internet shorthand), thoughts are reduced to a specific number of characters in a "hot take", and everything under the sun has an associated hashtag, we now have pictures to substitute for words in our texts. My particular messaging app will actually highlight words that have related pictures in its dictionary, as if I want to put a stupid cartoon drawing of a piece of pizza into my text when I write to my wife to see if she wants to order pizza for dinner. I hate emojis, and I wish a pox upon whomever decided that they were an acceptable form of communication. There, I said it. I think emojis serve a purpose to emphasize emotion. Not replace words. I don't use them to replace a word for an emotion I wish to express, but I will use them to emphasize an already stated emotion. I have no problem with a <@ from my wife at the end of a text when she's excited about our plans for the weekend or a  from my sister if I ask how her last date went, but actually replacing words with pictures is ridiculous. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 9:04:42 GMT -5
I think emojis serve a purpose to emphasize emotion. Not replace words. I don't use them to replace a word for an emotion I wish to express, but I will use them to emphasize an already stated emotion. I have no problem with a <@ from my wife at the end of a text when she's excited about our plans for the weekend or a from my sister if I ask how her last date went, but actually replacing words with pictures is ridiculous. I agree. However, on social media, I do find it comical sometimes when people use full pictures to describe themselves. I do not see that ever getting old. It has its place, but in general, no, emojis and/or pictures shouldn't replace words. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 14:17:41 GMT -5
The only (emojis) one that I use is the Smile ...  ... and I occasionally use it for fun! |
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from my wife at the end of a text when she's excited about our plans for the weekend or a 
from my sister if I ask how her last date went, but actually replacing words with pictures is ridiculous. 
... and I occasionally use it for fun!