Reading Stoic_Slaughter's journal

I cannot believe how many people on this website have posted things from another writer without giving him/her credit. They're always found out, to be certain, but the whole idea behind their actions makes no sense to me. This website exists so that intelligent people can lay down some well written, well thought out things, and the fact that anyone would rip off someone else's work infuriates me. I remember a little sneaky girl who tried to act like a poem I had written was hers in sixth grade, and I pushed her into a desk in the middle of class with intentions to kill her. I'm not a violent person, but what she did was like molesting my child or poking holes into my soul. All of the decent writers in existence spend a great deal of time, effort, energy, and love for their works! How could any human being be so insensitive to blatantly and intentionally copy someone else's writing and pass it off for his own? I am sure everyone gets inspiration from somewhere and vague ideas are copied frequently, but word for word? That is absolutely vile, selfish, and cruel.

To the people who have done that... is it worth it? All of that to seem impressive in the eyes of people you will never meet, when you really have no thoughts in your heads and no compassion for the loving writers who took the time to make their own thoughts worth reading. You're disgusting and I have no respect for you.

For my next trick, I shall make you all disappear.

Some of us are not so quick, and we don't recognize the same words twice. Especially when they are white letters on black (ie NAO) instead of black letters on white (where they were originally from).

I'm sure if you posted something like,

"This is really similar to __(insert title or web address here)___. You should at least quote this person."

Then the person would have an oppotunity to say something for themselves. And then the rest of us could judge it for ourselves as well.

I'm sure very few of us NAOians would stand for plagiarism, and we'll vote it down.

But if you don't point it out, some of the slower, not-so-well-read NAOians (like me) won't ever know.

Please contiune to vote AND post.