Should there be a rule, or space limit, to cut and pasted answers?

Question

Don't you hate it when your good, handwritten answer is buried by a cut and pasted answer, especially recipes, from a website? I bet the entire allrecipes.com website has been posted to Yahoo Q&A in the cooking section. I think if people cut and paste recipes-which is a fine thing to do, I'm not complaining about that- I think they should have to atleast condense them. I think the practice would be good e-etiquette for the rest of us.

Answer 1

Frankly I complain about it! At the very least it's a copyright violation and doesn't even come close to following fair use exclusions. Most of the time they give no credit to where they obtained the snippet and they *always* have no clue as to whether the recipe is good or not!

And to whoever posted the first response...If they can come to Yahoo Answers! to ask for a recipe they can sure as h*ck make one little click to go to a website to get the recipe from it's source!!

It makes a whole lot more sense to copy and then paste a URL into that little "Know you source? List it here:" box than to copy an entire webpage into this box! I've even seen some that have menus, ads and other garbage from the page they copied!

I make it a habit to ALWAYS thumbs-down snipped answers since it makes it easier to see the things posted by folks that actually CARE about their answer!!

Answer 2

If the answer is cut and pasted, I agree it should be limited to a reasonable length. I've seen them go on for 3/4 of a page.

Answer 3

No because many people are ASKING for recipes and requesting that you give recipes not links. The answer should fit the question/request.

I do agree with condensing them. I see alot of white space on some.

Answer 4

That's why I feel that the links should be posted instead. That's what I do, but usually only with my own recipes. If if they aren't, I let the asker know that I've never made it.