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Miss Eliza's avatar

The Maalvika situation reminds me a bit of what happened to James Somerton a while back.

I don’t think we should be super nit picky about people who happen to have the same idea, or somewhere along the line forgot what they read. (It’s a bit unrealistic to require someone to have a perfect log of everything.)

But, I do think it’s wrong when you intentionally try to present someone else’s idea as your own. Part of me wishes the internet had stronger norms around citation (or at least acknowledging the idea is not your own if you think the source is an info hazard) but I know it’s not a realistic expectation. Luckily, egregious plagiarism tells on itself eventually.

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Adam's avatar

Personally as a reader and not a writer (and therefore uninterested in anyone's audience metrics) I'd like to see a lot more bitterness and yelling at the tides. I feel like people are embarrassed to hate everything now and it's made them lethargic.

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