Elonka wrote:
] It would probably be worth clarifying this point for
] Memestreams, too, especially since we routinely quote other
] people's webpages word for word. Where's the dividing line
] between "fair use" quoting of someone else's page, and
] "plagiarizing" it?

This is a very important question, and also an very hard one to answer.

Basically:

What MemeStreams users are doing right which the Agonist is not is that they always link the articles they are taking information from.

I think that you shouldn't quote too much text. If you are responding to an article, then you need to quote the content you are referring to, but in the case where you are merely recommending, you should quote enough text to show the reader what they are getting on the other side of the link, but not enough text to allow the reader to get all of the information without following the link. I think that 99% of the time, MemeStreams users do this well.

There may be cases where things are over the line here. Its obviously impossible for me to police it completely. For the most part it hasn't been a problem. No one has ever complained about being linked from MemeStreams and users seem to do the right thing almost all of the time.

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