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Board Beginners & Help
Re: Asking Questions And Avoiding Penalties- Tips For New Members
by
SatoPrincess
on 23/02/2024, 19:38:20 UTC
The easiest way to avoid plagiarism is to learn what you are reading and then convey it in your own words. You are not considered a copy-paster if you are providing information that you have got from somewhere as long as it's in your wording and you are not writing it in the same manner you read it. This is what I do to avoid plagiarism and to be able to populate your posts with essential information, news, and any other thing that might have some weight.

If you think you can't do that or you don't want to do that, then as suggested by others, you will need to give a reference to the source from where you have copied the information, and if you don't do that and someone catches you, you risk getting your account ban or at least get a negative trust rating.
This is good advice but I’m afraid some newbies may read your comment and misinterpret it to mean that paraphrasing is allowed. I think it’s better for newbies to simply add the link to the source and do that in a way that it is visible and obvious that they are not trying to pass it off as their own words.