bonsaiTALK Community - View Single Post - CLOSED: What is Plagiarism?

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Originally Posted by He-who-has-done-so-much-for-Bonsai (allegedly)

"Yawn,

I feel sorry for you. You guys just don't get it do you? There is no such thing as bad publicity, I don't care what you say, as long as you keep saying my name.
BonsaiTalk is like the tabloids, you know the tabloids. they talk #$%^&* about people, brad pitt lost 10 pounds, Madonna marries a space alien...it's all good, keep the name out there in front of everyone.

Even in the world of bonsai, keeping the name out there is a good thing!

But there is a problem that your pea brain can't comprehend, take all the regular posters at BT and maybe, figuring high, you have 100 people who post regular, 100 regulars reads. Forget the membership, it's 99% inactive.

Now lets just take Bonsai Today who has 4500 active subscribers and subtract the 100 regulars at BT, that still leaves 4400 people that I'm reaching, many of which never go on-line and certainly not the tabloid forums.

Now think about ABS journal, Bonsai Europe (soon) and all the newsletters I get published in...you do me no harm at all, the little bit you do just keeps my name alive, thank you."

Will

You know, I've had an idea - not an original idea mind you, but an idea nonetheless. I know some folks who have the power - and quite possibly the inclination - to remove that name from bonsaiTALK entirely, as though it's owner had never even existed here. I mean, do we really have the time to go through every single post by He-who-has-done-so-much-for-Bonsai to check whether it is merely a cut-and-paste job? I say we just assume that it's all plagiarism, delete it and be done with it.

I'm certain that it will be no loss to He-who-has-done-so-much-for-Bonsai, as bonsaiTALK is "99% inactive" anyway.

Any thoughts?

Fly.

PS: Still tossing up whether a

is in order or not...