Auditorii wrote: I mean, I'm not a fan of copy-pasting real life articles, I know players who do it and I know who have done it there is nothing in the rules against it. Personally I think that it cheapens the RP because you're literally copy-pasting, swapping out names and using other peoples work but that's a personal preference.
Auditorii wrote:As for the issue of using real world articles and replacing information, I only know of a handful of players who have/who do it and from my understanding it is limited. I don't really think that the rankings are at all "problematic" or "corrupted" in any way because I can tell you that a vast majority of people that are in the "senior" spots in the rankings simply don't do that. With that being said however, we'd be willing to broach the issue and discuss it. I'm not certain that this is the appropriate topic for it, perhaps a new topic to address such matters.
Following on from Auditorii's comments on another thread, I would like to raise a concern I have - and I know some others have - about the extent to which real life prominent news articles are being plagiarised for use in Particracy RP news threads.
After spending a little bit of time researching, I found a number of examples of plagiarism in the Lourenne newspaper, just over about the last month alone.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4275&p=159273#p159150
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/0 ... nceh2.html
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4275&start=730#p158724
https://new.abb.com/news/detail/60096/a ... arge-ships
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4275&start=720#p158117
https://www.labiotech.eu/policy-legal-f ... s-biotech/
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4275&start=720#p158151
http://www.paris-europlace.net/files/ra ... lle_en.pdf
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4275&start=710#p157344
https://in.reuters.com/article/us-franc ... NKBN1ZM2G6
Perhaps it is unfair of me to have focused only on Lourenne, but that is all I have had time to look at so far. There are other news threads which I suspect (but cannot confirm) have seen the same phenomenon.
I feel a discussion needs to be had about this.
Should it be okay to post plagiarised news articles?
I say it should not be okay, but if this really is going to be allowed, then players should at least be required to acknowledge the real source of their articles, and those articles should not be taken in to account when it comes to determining the official rankings.