# Why don't you speak for yourself, Brainglutton? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 18, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-speak-for-yourself-brainglutton/269765 "2004-10-18T03:02:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-speak-for-yourself-brainglutton/269765/1 "2004-10-18T03:02:29Z")
(With apologies to Patricia Mullins) Brainglutton, I like your posts for the most part. You ask interesting questions, and you look at things with a mindset that’s really different than my own, so you expose me to ideas I wouldn’t have thought of. However, you do one thing that annoys me. A lot of the time, your posts are just copied off someplace else. You’ll have one line of your own opinion, and follow that with a 10 paragraph quote you’ve gotten from some website. For example, see here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5379509#post5379509](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5379509#post5379509) and here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5378958#post5378958](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5378958#post5378958) and here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5375757#post5375757](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5375757#post5375757) Not to mention a vast number of posts that are just cut and pastes from Wikipedia. I do appreciate that you’re trying to bring in cites and evidence, but nevertheless, it does sort of get on my nerves a little. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-speak-for-yourself-brainglutton/269765/2 "2004-10-18T04:09:53Z")
> [@Captain Amazing](#): > > A lot of the time, your posts are just copied off someplace else. You’ll have one line of your own opinion, and follow that with a 10 paragraph quote you’ve gotten from some website. I agree! > [@Reputable Source](#): > > blahblah blah-blah, blah-BLAH-blah, blah-blah-blablablah… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-speak-for-yourself-brainglutton/269765/3 "2004-10-18T05:35:28Z")
Question-are Wikipedia’s rules for reprinting articles more lax than other sources? Because those all represent a pretty large chunk of text there. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-speak-for-yourself-brainglutton/269765/4 "2004-10-18T05:58:06Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Question-are Wikipedia’s rules for reprinting articles more lax than other sources? > [@](#): > > The goal of Wikipedia is to create an information source in an encyclopedia format that is freely available. The license we use grants free access to our content in the same sense as free software is licensed freely. This principle is known as copyleft. That is to say, Wikipedia content can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the Wikipedia article used (a direct link back to the article satisfies our author credit requirement). Wikipedia articles therefore will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom. [Grin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights) ;j ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-speak-for-yourself-brainglutton/269765/5 "2004-10-18T12:13:41Z")
> [@Captain Amazing](#): > > Not to mention a vast number of posts that are just cut and pastes from Wikipedia. I do appreciate that you’re trying to bring in cites and evidence, but nevertheless, it does sort of get on my nerves a little. It doesn’t get on my nerves at all. I think using the opinion of someone who’s actually qualified to give one is a superb way to start a GD thread. I like **BrainGlutton** ’s threads. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-speak-for-yourself-brainglutton/269765/6 "2004-10-18T13:08:06Z")
As long as proper credit is given, I think it’s cool. Why re-invent the wheel?