dont you just hate it.....?

Question

...when people cut and paste a massive block of text from wikipedia and give it as their answer on here?...please stop it now!!...its boring and dumb and people seldom read it all anyway. If you cut and paste it all youre trying to pass it off as your own answer...which it isnt...just provide the link if you cant think for yourself.....rant over and ty

Answer 1

well done mate....ive lost count how many times i have said to people on here its bloody annoying scrolling through all the crap they paste.... just put a link.

Answer 2

No, I don't hate it. It usually answers the question. But you are right, the link should be included too.

Usually, I show the link, then PASTE in a sentence or two of the wikipedia explanation that answers the question. Then the Asker can hit the LINK to get the whole story.

I am not really sure why people ASK the questions if there is an answer someone already on the Internet. Is this some sort of BIZARRE entertainment?

Answer 3

I agree. I think it is fine for people to do research on the web to help a person who has asked something, but if they find it on another website then just provide the link, don't cut and paste the text, no one ever reads the huge blocks that are pasted.

Answer 4

people will stop doing that when other people stop asking dumb questions that they can easily get the answer to by checking wikipedia themselves.

if a question can be answered with wikipedia, that means there there is no "thinking for yourself" because there is a definite answer.

wikipedia is not an opinion, its a fact. you want opinions as your answers, then ask a question that requires an opinion, not a simple online search.

the fault is not in the question answerer but in the question asker.

Answer 5

Yeah I know, it makes people with credible answers straight form their head look like dumba$$es. Makes it look like"that just came off the top of my head" So impersonal!!!

I'm no internet tech, but if somebody has a problem that I've had to deal with in the past, then I like to share that fix for the issue right out of my brain, not of of somebody elses forum or answer.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

uoh...is that what the heck these people are doing!!!????
hey thanks for that, I was thinking there may be more intelligent people out there, than me, so its all a facade, a "cut and paste conspiracy" to overthrow the whole system of Question and Answers by Living Breathing Feeling Humans! This is Sacraligious!!!!
How dare these Simple Minded Folk attempt this Plageristic Deed!
I say "Hauk-toooo-eee" to them, now I say we convince them the bottom of all usable swimming pools smell like strawberrys and Chocolate....yummy!

Answer 8

Yes, I agree. At least paraphrase it and then provide the link as a source if you had to look it up. Try to provide some of your own insight in your answers... something you can't just plug in a search engine to look up.

Answer 9

You know why you unable to paste it because in this yahoo answer have the gap so you unable to paste it.Then,you also can see the rule of this service that say about the gap.

Answer 10

I know! or when people answer questions with 'I don't know' well don't bloody answer then!!

I had a classic today- I asked a question about my dog, and one of the answers was 'kick it in the gonads' from 'maddogcatherin', what is the matter with people?!

Answer 11

Yeah. I don't like it but in some caes it cna be good. Like if we needed to know something sepcifically. a cut and paste answe would be good