2006-11-26 00:22:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
1. Well yes, it could well be. The whole point of Yahoo! Answers is to share knowledge, with the underlying assumptions that (a) the asker has no other practical way of acquiring the knowledge, and (b) that the responder either has all the required knowledge, or sufficient background orientation to undertake a brief amount of research to prepare a more complete answer. That's the theory, anyway.
2. If you have no idea about the answer, then maybe you should desist from attempting to answer. However I have found some questions provoking enough for me to want to find out something from scratch. When that happens, as far as possible, I put the answer in my own words (and to make sure that I address the question asked), but I always provide a link to the webpage source. At the same I try to avoid wikipedia, because it is so commonly used, that it becomes tired and naff to do so.
3. Sometimes I do copy and paste, but only when the copied section is too valuable to be abridged. When I do that, I always put the copied section within quotation marks, as well as pasting the relevant hyperlink. The abuse occurs when some responders copy anything at all about the subject, even if it does not directly answer the question. I have seen dozens of paragraphs pasted in a single response, and let's be honest, who is going to read all that? Some of these mammoth pastes have included the original "Return to the top" links embedded in the copied webpage!
4. Another observation is that some people just don't seem to be bothered to do their own searches, even when it is simpler to do that, than to post a question in Yahoo! Answers. Here is an example: "Does anyone know anything about Christine De Pisan? All i know is that she was a famous writer in the middle ages. She wrote about making women's lives better" [29 words]. This was my response: "How difficult is it to type 'Christine De Pisan' into your preferred search engine and get the results?" + 8 linked webpages. The point is that the asker could have found out all she needed to know, and much more quickly, just by inputting the 3 word name into a search engine.
5. In summary, I think it is a sad waste of the resouces of Yahoo! Answers (a) if askers don't try to find out for themselves first, and (b) if responders are just lifting data from wikipedia.
2006-11-26 00:30:48 · answer #1 · answered by ♫ Rum Rhythms ♫ 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
No, it's not cheating. The point of YA is to give people the answers to questions they pose, and as long as the source is posted, there's no cheating or plagiarizing involved.
It can be REALLY annoying, though. When you try to glean the pertinent information from an answer taking up paragraphs of extraneous data when as many words would suffice to answer the question asked, it can be a great waste of time.
2006-11-26 17:30:04 · answer #2 · answered by Bob G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never used Wikipedia but anyone who did is NOT cheating because someone wants an answer to something and if you can get it from any source.. great.. If it is too long of an answer or whaterver, then it is probably better to cite the URL to be used to get to the webpage.
2006-11-26 00:26:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If somebody asks a query then the desire the main tips they are able to get this internet site facilitates with that particularly get somebody else to do each and all the searching for you for the possibility at 10 pts with a distinctive 2. If it solutions the question it solutions the question. the actuality that they decrease-and pasted it from wikipedia potential they did no longer understand the two yet have been nonetheless attempting to help that's what this internet site is for..
2016-10-04 09:23:36 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
The name of the game is providing correct answers to peoples questions. I am afraid if the answers were left to the intelligent quotient of some of the participants, there would be no Yahoo answers, period. No put down, just fact.
Good question,
Darryl S.
2006-11-26 00:27:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. You are answering a question with facts & that's what the asker wants. You should, of course, aknowledge the source of your information.
2006-11-26 00:33:14 · answer #6 · answered by cloud43 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no as long as you give credit to the source
2006-11-26 00:25:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
nope...it's the answer that counts not the source!
2006-11-26 00:28:02 · answer #8 · answered by MC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nah. eceryone does it. just put the source in the source part. ;)
2006-11-26 18:02:39 · answer #9 · answered by ~uruviel~ 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes and plagiarism as well.
2006-11-26 15:43:36 · answer #10 · answered by gone 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋