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Re: Asking Questions And Avoiding Penalties- Tips For New Members
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Davidvictorson
on 15/02/2024, 19:02:28 UTC
One of the questions is concerning copying and pasting from a browser, new sites, social media or any source. Though, I’ve read through the rules and seen that copy paste isn’t allowed, the question now is what if one is to read through the information provided by any of the above mentioned  and in such formulate your wordings, will there still be need to reference the link from which the information was gotten?

As a newbie I would also like to know if asking questions back to back based on the fact that I haven’t known all yet, wouldn’t cause a penalty of restriction from the forum or a closed account entirely .
In this academic and literally world, using someone's knowledge like your own without giving any credit is a very serious offense. In some countries, you would be asked to pay some fines or be thrown in jail for a short period of time for it. The same law and rule is applicable in this forum. It will be called academic theft you were caught doing that. And because you can't be asked to pay any fine or thrown in jail for it here, the equivalent for it is a ban.

You can always use starters like, "Accorrding to ...", "Coingraph reported that...", "In an article cited in Bitcoin.com...", "Micheal Saylor mentioned that...". "Elon Musk wrote that..." these should be followed with the link attached at the end like a footnote or embedded in the body of the text which is call in-text-citation.