[Please Read]: Providing News
11-21-2010, 05:56 AM, (This post was last modified: 11-25-2010, 04:54 PM by Vanilla.)
#1
[Please Read]: Providing News
Recently, a lot of people have been copy & pasting a fair amount of news from news sites and thus scoring easy post points. While this isn't against the rules, it is against the rules not provide article sources (See rule ยง3 under Additional Rules.)

Furthermore, if/when you copy & pasty articles from websites, it's common that some image material names is included along. Please either remove or correct these links.

A third thing is, that you are advised to remove any textual ads that might be present within the copied news. There is no reason to bring them along.

- Link (R.) and image(L.) tools looks like this:

.jpg   IMGnLINK.jpg (Size: 1.76 KB / Downloads: 57)

[Edit]:
As Copy&Pasting directly is lame, please instead provide a small snippet of the article, please use the quote tool to do this. This isn't a requirement (yet?), but it is recommended. Then afterwards, please provide you're own opinions/comments on what you posted.

The only exception to this, is when you've written the news yourself - If you write it yourself, please try to make it as grammatically correct as possible, so it won't be as painful to read, and if possible make use of correct formatting.

Thank you!
- Vanilla
Reply
11-22-2010, 11:32 PM,
#2
RE: [Please Read]: Providing News
I'm glad, you posted this. Even though I know about this. lol
Proud Member of Niftyhost!
[Image: sig.png]

Reply
11-23-2010, 12:43 AM,
#3
RE: [Please Read]: Providing News
(11-22-2010, 11:32 PM)2348z Wrote: I'm glad, you posted this. Even though I know about this. lol

Sadly, there is a lot of people that doesn't know :/
Reply
11-24-2010, 05:30 AM,
#4
RE: [Please Read]: Providing News
I know bud, it's a shame too.
Proud Member of Niftyhost!
[Image: sig.png]

Reply
11-24-2010, 10:11 AM,
#5
RE: [Please Read]: Providing News
To be honest, I would prefer that we dont copypasta at all, it hurts our PageRank.
Hi! I'm Zach, and I founded NiftyHost. If you need anything, just PM me! :)
Reply
11-25-2010, 12:17 PM,
#6
RE: [Please Read]: Providing News
Ugh, don't copy/paste. Not cool to steal content even if you provide credit.
Reply
11-25-2010, 02:13 PM,
#7
RE: [Please Read]: Providing News
+1 what Matt said. The point of News is to facilitate discussion about world happenings, not to syndicate articles from online newspWrite your own take on a story, link to some sources, and watch the discussion flourish.
Hi! I'm Zach, and I founded NiftyHost. If you need anything, just PM me! :)
Reply
11-26-2010, 10:39 AM,
#8
RE: [Please Read]: Providing News
Yeah, and people will love you more ;)
Reply
11-26-2010, 11:14 AM,
#9
RE: [Please Read]: Providing News
(: Nice, Matt.
Hi! I'm Zach, and I founded NiftyHost. If you need anything, just PM me! :)
Reply
11-26-2010, 06:01 PM,
#10
RE: [Please Read]: Providing News
Quote:As Copy&Pasting directly is lame, please instead provide a small snippet of the article, please use the quote tool to do this. This isn't a requirement (yet?), but it is recommended. Then afterwards, please provide you're own opinions/comments on what you posted.

I agree with that one. :)
With love,
HiddenKnowledge
A.k.a. Yoruichi Shihouin

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me trough email or pm. :)
Reply


Forum Jump: