March 6, 2022: Storm Productions has been given a warning for breach of rule 3, after admitting that they plagiarized multiple articles, which have since been deleted.
Assets aren't just code, folks. They also refer to sounds, pictures and writing. General rule of thumb is that if you dug it up off the internet, and you aren't going to change anything, put a blurb in quotes or give reference to where you got it from, then it's probably plagiarism.
A really quick and dirty guide here:
If you want to state that the Blue Jays are doing better than the Orioles, you don't need to list sources. It's pretty easy to dig up information on stuff that is essentially a matter of public record.
If you want to state that God is real...again, you don't really need to cite sources. It's a nonverifiable claim that is going to have to stand on its own.
Now, if you want to do something (write a poem, make an article, make a song), it stands to reason that if you own the thing, then you can basically do what you want with it. If you didn't, though, and if the way you've been posting indicates no acknowledgement of alternative sources, that gets into grey territory.
I know we're not writing college English here, and this is only a forum, but the sort of plagiarism where you basically lift multiple entire articles in order to make yourself look more useful? Yeah, that's the sort of thing that can literally get you kicked out of a prestigious university. Don't plagiarize. If something isn't yours, and you want to quote it chapter and verse, making reference to the fact that it's not yours is a good thing. We don't need official citations here. Just have enough courtesy not to crib someone else's work.
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