I really don't know how someone could make a mistake like that. I mean the chances of you accidentally writing the same content as someone else, word-for-word, are just so small.
This reads as something you'd find in /r/thathappened to be honest. Without any concrete example of what you wrote, it really hard to believe you on this.
I mean if you just think logically about it, who writes a post and then consciously thinks about checking whether it's been written before, using the exact same words and structure?
Yet it happened, yet I did it. We're talking about today. It has probably happened many times to me in the past. It has probably happened to many other people as well.
You don't read a lot, do you?Nice, attacking my point with passive-aggressive insults.
It's a soap-opera-like discussion forum, I'm not submitting a dissertation for crying out loud. How do I de-merit this thread to oblivion?
Gee, thanks :-/ I was obviously talking about the conscious act of copying someone's work and passing it off as your own. Yes, if you do that, you're a shit person. I stand by what I said there.
Absolute e-warior bullshit. Nobody in the real world strongly cares about that unless we're talking about published/for-profit work. Focusing on such nonsense is why people remain with narrow-minded. Miss me with your virtue signalling bullshit. It is a
acceptable mistake especially when it is done once or even very very rarely.
How is
plagiarism an acceptable mistake? Do you even know what plagiarism means?
From the Oxford Dictionary:
The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
Source:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/plagiarismIn what world is it ever acceptable to pass someone else's work off as your own? That's what we're talking about, right?
Edit: I know I'm sounding a bit hypocritical here, since my reply is also fairly passive-aggressive. Sorry for that.