10-13-2009, 04:03 PM
Hello.
I realise I'm not a moderator or anything, but here's my two cents, based off of what I've seen. It seems that if someone blatantly leeches guides / tutorials without giving credit repeatedly, they just get a slap on the wrist. Perhaps a mod will edit the original topic, putting in the credits that the OP should have done. It really angers me to see such lax punishment be given, because I know if someone leeched a guide that I wrote, I'd be super angry. There's one particular user in mind who has posted about 5-6 leeched posts without giving credits, and from what I can see, nothing has happened to him except his posts were edited, and he perhaps was given a warning. I don't see why he, or anyone, would continue such unethical behavior after the FIRST incident. It just really angers me when I see people getting away with stealing content from experienced authors and getting the glory for it here.
I realise I'm not a moderator or anything, but here's my two cents, based off of what I've seen. It seems that if someone blatantly leeches guides / tutorials without giving credit repeatedly, they just get a slap on the wrist. Perhaps a mod will edit the original topic, putting in the credits that the OP should have done. It really angers me to see such lax punishment be given, because I know if someone leeched a guide that I wrote, I'd be super angry. There's one particular user in mind who has posted about 5-6 leeched posts without giving credits, and from what I can see, nothing has happened to him except his posts were edited, and he perhaps was given a warning. I don't see why he, or anyone, would continue such unethical behavior after the FIRST incident. It just really angers me when I see people getting away with stealing content from experienced authors and getting the glory for it here.