Plagiarism? Wow...this person stole my answer totally...is there anything I can do about this? My answer:?

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If any of you nincompoops would look at the evidence...it's a common tactic for a country to injure itself and blame it on the enemy. Then we can go get em. Common tactic, there is even a name for it. Why don't all you wonderful wise little kids tell me why NORAD didn't scramble ANY fighters to escort the hijacked planes down?? They didn't miss 1, but 3!! Anytime a commercial airline goes off course without explanation, within 10 minutes, fighter jets are supposed to escort them down. Hmmm. How convenient. Did you also know that the WTC changed owners about two months prior to the attacks? Did you also know that the buildings were worth more if destroyed than standing? Did you know that there was a flurry of activity on Wall Street prior to the attacks, and the majority of the trading was on the doomed Airlines stock? Did you know that there were multiple explosions heard inside the buildings from all kinds of witnesses? Did you know that WTC Building 7

This gal stole my answer and used it as a question, what should I do?

Answer 1

Don't they say that imitation is the highest form of flattery?

Don't be mad, be glad that someone feels that what you have to say is worth being said again.

You can report if you want, but I doubt the Y!A team will worry about it too much, however, you never know...I have had Q&A's removed for MUCH less.

Answer 2

Let it go, people do that all the time on Yahoo Answers it has happened to me a few times, reporting them most likely won't do any good. Yahoo rarely takes action.

It's not courteous or respectful what the person did (and I am assuming that they didn't mention where they got the idea for the question), but it is not as if you can press charges.

Answer 3

using fact this could be an ordinary debate talk board... i do no longer assume such strict techniques of publishing keep on with. no person is making any money off of their Yahoo suggestions, and that i'm no longer able to communicate for the guy, yet i assume C.S. Lewis might wholeheartedly enable utilization of his ideas in this context with out citation :) Citations are nice in this talk board, inspite of the incontrovertible fact that now no longer crucial! Now if I actual have been to place up a bite of writing or write a e-e book with C.S. Lewis's techniques and now no longer cite them, which would be plagarism and a sin!

Answer 4

OK, let's put this conspiracy stuff to rest. I admit it. I did it. I'm an American. I've lived in Texas. I'm a white guy, a Christian. I am not a Muslim, nor am I a terrorist linked with Bin Laden. There......did that satisfy your pangs for more info on a dead subject?

Answer 5

You report the one who stole your answer for abuse to Yahoo Answers Team.

Answer 6

um...you could report it to yahoo. Or you could just suck it up and understand that anytime you put anything on-line, you are basically vulnerable to plagiarism and should expect it. I wouldn't mind unless she was getting profit for it.

Answer 7

answer it and hope for the 10 points (since you already have the answer)
Also, remember that mimicry is a form of flattery.

Answer 8

yes , you could do a common test, jump out a 8Th story window and if you float, you were wronged.

Answer 9

that was a geat trick....lol.....

you should sue her at the yahoo judges section but you have to stop at the lawyer section first....

Answer 10

How is it stealing? If copying your thought is stealing, all man's history is troubled as well.

We all had to "borrow" from our predecessors to learn.

Guess we're all thieves? Mental handcuffs, please!