Board Thread:Officer's Pub (Staff Only, idiots)/@comment-422690-20160522213838/@comment-422690-20160530204557

WanderingSkull wrote:

Article Policy: - Everything as far I'm concerned is easy to follow and makes sense. My only question is: How can we identify if a text has been plagiarized before? As far as I know, we've never had a problem with it, but I kind of want to know if it ever happens, how do we identify it.

Well,if you suspect plagiarism just copy-paste part of the article into a google search surrounded by double quotes. This searches for the exact string you entered, and if sites other than this pop up scan them to see if the bio is pulled from there. This was a massive problem before you joined, Skully, and I'd like to keep it the non-issue it is now.

WanderingSkull wrote:

Chat Policy: - I'm not entire sure on the cursing policy, considering how normal swearing has become as we all have become more comfortable with each other. The all caps thing should be raised to five, if you please, since LEG DAY, GAINS, AND SOMETHING BOWL 2016! GET HYPE! (ex: BASTARD BOWL 2016! GET HYPE!). That and we haven't really ever enforced it as far as I know unless some guy is screaming in anger about how corrupt and how we're all assholes.

I've changed the spam policy to "multiple times to the annoyance of other users." Don't want to have shitty, nonsensically forced chat memes mistaken for spam, after all. The cursing part is left as-is due to its vagueness in wording. Said vagueness is to make it apply to exactly these situations - shit's changed, but policy is worded so that our interpretations of it is what reigns rather than restricting us with rigid wording.