Does it irritate you when someone answers questions from something they copied and pasted off the web?

Question

I am sure most people have researched their questions on the web but real life answers.

Answer 1

Well, I read your question, and did a little research, and came up with this :

Quote :

"I am not very sophisticated in some ways. Games of distinction are tedious circle jerks, organised around the events and activities that most people find interesting and which have had so much commercial investment injected into them that they feel as exciting as getting an enema from a mechanical car wash.

While those that intuit the intensive dimension to the production of culture, and therefore have the capacity to appreciate how interests are managed, are either swept up by the cultural industries (including the academic cultural industry) as creative or intellectual workers, or they maintain bouyancy in a sea of mediocrity by expounding a soft-left libertarianism devoid of critical content and becoming talking heads for the abject stupidities of consumers.

Both of these stupid and smart positions require a disavowal of the regular injustices and cultural palsy of a society hell bent on maintaining the conditions of the good life, the easy life, the life where girls (and boys) just wanna have fun.

The rest are like the missing left socks that once upon a time were found under the bed (with the communists and other boogie people (M Jackson)). They are always left, because the right socks are on the feet in the boots that are used to kick you in the head to break your quaint adolescent dreams.

In other ways I am hyper-sophisticated, almost to the point of paralysis. Flailing from the constant stupor of cynical anticipation, not of what people will actually do, which of course is thankfully contingent, but the sets of expectations used within situations to guide behaviour and so on.

Social situations are therefore very tough. I mostly ignore people who define themselves according to marketable-based interests, because, you know, I’m cooler than capitalism (”YOU COULD SELL THAT T-SHIRT!” “…”). Not only capitalism but the markets of cultural capital that range from the comical innocence of hyper-commodified masculinity expressed through ’surf’ branded clothing to the high-minded bourgie ***** wallowing in their self-righteous malaise of nothing to do after the novelty of perfect hair and the right books has worn off. I would say ‘Get a life’ but they have an investment in a lifestyle franchise and a severe deficit of curiosity that precludes having an opening on the world not modulated according to the affects of their mortgaged expectations.

Assuming a subject position organised around ‘resistance’ to these expectations in a big F**K YOU is simply fulfilling the destiny of yet another expectation. It may make the little left socks feel better, because such resistance is congruent with their libidinal investments, but this makes them no different to those wildly excited about the brand and pleasant aroma of the soap used in the car wash. Resistance is futile; only because it is part of the apparatus of control. You need to be more sophisticated than that. Expectations are empty sqares in a game of constantly shifting hopscotch. They are there to be skipped over.

Where now for the lost left socks? In some forgotten bag in the cupboard under the stairs plotting with secret desires? Cleaned so they are wearable again, then hung out to dry?"

Unquote :

Of course, I do understand your point, and could have just posted the url, which is :

http://eventmechanics.net.au/?p=948

So .... take your pick, irritation, or found left socks ? :-)))

{{{{{{{Cosmic Socks}}}}}}}

Answer 2

Not everyone KNOWS everything. It's ok to research the net.

What annoys me about copying and pasting is when 1) the asker never ask for it and 2) when they paste humungus amount of information - so large that you have to scroll pages. For example - there was this ONE simple question asking what kind of tea you drink (a simple one or two words answer). One person pasted the whole article on Tea, what it is, its history and how it got to be in the market today. It was so annoying.

Answer 3

Yes! If I wanted to research the web that's what I would do. When I ask a question I just want personal opinions or advice!

Answer 4

It does bother me...if I wanted a "textbook definition" I'd do the web search myself. I'm looking for "real" experiences and answers when I ask a question.

Answer 5

Not really , as long as I've got lots to choose from. Sometimes the web answers help. Especially when you really need to know!

Answer 6

Yes, it irritates me, especially if the copied and pasted text is very long. It's better to post links instead.

Answer 7

That is usefull in some categories. Like when you ask something about health, history etc. But deffenitely NOT in real life qs.

Answer 8

No as long as they indicate that's where it came from. Sometimes answers just need facts, other times opinions. Facts can be found and cut/pasted. Fine with me. Just tell me where you got it so I can judge it's veracity.

By the way, I may have found your sock.

Answer 9

It depends on why they copied/pasted. If it is a quote, or is medical info, then no it doesn't bother me. But if that is the only answer they give, and don't qualify why they used that quote, then I think to myself, what is the point of their answer??? ღ♥ღ♥ღ

Answer 10

Sometimes....If the info is helpful no but I hate it when it's like pages and pages of information!!! If I wanted to read all of that I would have looked it up online myself.