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Avatar: 44 2012-11-06 12:31:55 -0500

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man-man Posted:

Exactly how plagiarised constitutes plagiarism? Same image + same text is easy enough, but what about cases in between?

There’s a line I’m pretty sure I’ve invented rather than remembered (can’t find anything similar via Google), that will work as a funny subtitle for a variety of pictures, but under a different main title each time (depending on the picture).

Different picture, different title, same subtitle = self-plagiarism? Or not?

Thinking about it, there are some jokes where much the same joke will genuinely work for more than one picture (not in the vein of a “Pic unrelated” joke, just that more than one image fits the bill). So then it’d be the same text, but under a different picture. Too similar?

This rule isn’t meant to punish any newb who accidentally stumbles onto a similar turn of phrase as a previous player. There are going to be some lines of thought, pop-culture references and yes, even memes, that are unavoidable in some situations.

What we’re trying to stop is blatant, repeated and deliberate rip-offs.

As long as you’re not trying to game the system, as a few players have basically admitted to doing, you’ll be fine.

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