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Re: OT: Massive plagiarism accusation

From:Carsten Becker <carbeck@...>
Date:Thursday, September 21, 2006, 12:28
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:05:32 +0100, And Rosta <and.rosta@...> wrote:

<< The plagiarist is only fourteen years old. Fourteen year-olds must be
forgiven things far more egregious than the naive plagiarism of conscripts.
And it not nice for grown-ups to be snide to children. So give her a break,
everybody. >>

It *is* nasty, but so was her behaviour: She apologized but then started
again plagiarizing stuff, so she kind of wasted a second chance -- it is
not that we didn't give her one. Many people were disappointed and reacted
accordingly when they learnt that Brittany neglected her promise. Also, she
was *very* reluctant in removing the plagiates from her blog pages. So the
rather harsh reactions of some ZBB members are kind of justified IMO.

Yours,
Carsten (ZBB: guitarplayer/Dampantingaya)