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>Sure, but I think the OP should at least be including a sentence or two, even if it's something simply along the lines of "I read this and found it interesting because of x/y/z. Keen to hear what other people think about it."
That how I see it too. This week Ive come across a couple of threads started in the Beginners & Help section that were a verbatim copy/paste with a link to the source at the bottom of the post. On neither of the occasions did the OP come back to the thread to provide any thoughts or comments whatsoever, but they did happily collect the stray merits provided to them.
Its not plagiarism per se since the source is added, but it is often an intentional merit bait post from people who would never be able to phrase the content in such a way, and one would expect at least a pinch of personal thoughts thrown into the post. Perhaps there are boards/threads where it is part of the tradition with a long standing context to it, but seeing it on Beginners & Help, Bitcoin Discussion, on my local board, and other places seems rather much a lazy merit fishing expedition to me.