Scourge of Plagiarism

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Once upon a time in this forum, the issue of plagiarism was taken seriously. In fact there were a set of rules established to prevent people indulging in plagiarism in this website. Below is a snapshot of the "guidance" posted by the owner of this forum.

Now consider the original post in this thread.

Why in our epics no body has biological fathers - and we talk of lineage!!!!

In Ramayana and Mahabharat we have children born outside of marriage. King Dashratha could not have children, so his wives had to have donor sperm. So the Ram, Lakshman, Bharat, and Shatruguns did not have the genes of Dashrath. So they were not part of the Ragu Dynasty. In the Mahabharata...

www.tamilbrahmins.com

Refer to this article that appeared in a newspaper.

Mythology for the Millennial: Illegitimate offspring abound in Mahabharata, but none so pivotal as Satyavati

Satyavati’s story is the only one in the Mahabharata to feature a heroic journey by an illegitimate girl child

www.firstpost.com

Any reasonable person would conclude that the act by the original poster of that thread was indeed an act of plagiarism. Note: As it stands, no reference was given to the newspaper article nor appropriate credit is given. The post is verbatim copied!

This was pointed out in the relevant thread itself. But that post was unceremoniously removed citing some inappropriate language. The post that plagiarizes the article from the newspaper stands. I am reminded of the proverbial act of blind men leading other blind men. Congrats!

 

[a-TB]

Once upon a time in this forum, the issue of plagiarism was taken seriously. In fact there were a set of rules established to prevent people indulging in plagiarism in this website. Below is a snapshot of the "guidance" posted by the owner of this forum.

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Now consider the original post in this thread.

Why in our epics no body has biological fathers - and we talk of lineage!!!!

In Ramayana and Mahabharat we have children born outside of marriage. King Dashratha could not have children, so his wives had to have donor sperm. So the Ram, Lakshman, Bharat, and Shatruguns did not have the genes of Dashrath. So they were not part of the Ragu Dynasty. In the Mahabharata...

www.tamilbrahmins.com

Refer to this article that appeared in a newspaper.

Mythology for the Millennial: Illegitimate offspring abound in Mahabharata, but none so pivotal as Satyavati

Satyavati’s story is the only one in the Mahabharata to feature a heroic journey by an illegitimate girl child

www.firstpost.com

Any reasonable person would conclude that the act by the original poster of that thread was indeed an act of plagiarism. Note: As it stands, no reference was given to the newspaper article nor appropriate credit is given. The post is verbatim copied!

This was pointed out in the relevant thread itself. But that post was unceremoniously removed citing some inappropriate language. The post that plagiarizes the article from the newspaper stands. I am reminded of the proverbial act of blind men leading other blind men. Congrats!

Dear Mr KB
I missed seeing what you wrote. I rarely bother to read this posters posts
I think my post was a bit dismissive and reactive. I will be more careful

With that said, one usually plagiarizes, which is a fraud behavior of something useful or logical.

 

[a-TB]

Once upon a time in this forum, the issue of plagiarism was taken seriously. In fact there were a set of rules established to prevent people indulging in plagiarism in this website. Below is a snapshot of the "guidance" posted by the owner of this forum.

View attachment 17639

Now consider the original post in this thread.

Why in our epics no body has biological fathers - and we talk of lineage!!!!

In Ramayana and Mahabharat we have children born outside of marriage. King Dashratha could not have children, so his wives had to have donor sperm. So the Ram, Lakshman, Bharat, and Shatruguns did not have the genes of Dashrath. So they were not part of the Ragu Dynasty. In the Mahabharata...

www.tamilbrahmins.com

Refer to this article that appeared in a newspaper.

Mythology for the Millennial: Illegitimate offspring abound in Mahabharata, but none so pivotal as Satyavati

Satyavati’s story is the only one in the Mahabharata to feature a heroic journey by an illegitimate girl child

www.firstpost.com

Any reasonable person would conclude that the act by the original poster of that thread was indeed an act of plagiarism. Note: As it stands, no reference was given to the newspaper article nor appropriate credit is given. The post is verbatim copied!

This was pointed out in the relevant thread itself. But that post was unceremoniously removed citing some inappropriate language. The post that plagiarizes the article from the newspaper stands. I am reminded of the proverbial act of blind men leading other blind men. Congrats!

Dear Mr KB
I missed seeing what you wrote. I rarely bother to read this posters posts
I think my post was a bit dismissive and reactive. I will be more careful

With that said, one usually plagiarizes, which is a fraud behavior, of something useful or logical. But plagiarizing this kind of post is beyond belief and laughable if we ignore the fraud aspects for a moment.

Nowhere in Valmiki Ramayana , the source of all Ramayana that says Dasaratha had no sperms. The post is not worth analyzing to show the utter silliness. Even talking about bastards etc, that is a term for a baby out of wedlock but Hindu Dharma defines many kinds of weddings including Gandharva vivaha.

The problem with the society is that there are some elements that like to psycho analyze some characters from epics and portray some vulgar aspects to put down the religion of Hinduism. Given the kind of responses from other religions such characters will not dare try such stunts.

Then such posts attract like minded 'copy-pasters' who think it is their duty to propagate them.

My comments do not in anyway diminish the fraud aspects of not citing references.

Let us leave forum owner alone. He is too busy to read every posts and only acts when someone complains.

Today the General Section lacks the kind of vigor and interest it once used to have and it reflects the quality of the posters. There are still a few who have interesting thing to say. I try to focus on those posts

Usually you write well thought out and well referenced posts

 

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Once upon a time in this forum, the issue of plagiarism was taken seriously. In fact there were a set of rules established to prevent people indulging in plagiarism in this website. Below is a snapshot of the "guidance" posted by the owner of this forum.

View attachment 17639

Now consider the original post in this thread.

Why in our epics no body has biological fathers - and we talk of lineage!!!!

In Ramayana and Mahabharat we have children born outside of marriage. King Dashratha could not have children, so his wives had to have donor sperm. So the Ram, Lakshman, Bharat, and Shatruguns did not have the genes of Dashrath. So they were not part of the Ragu Dynasty. In the Mahabharata...

www.tamilbrahmins.com

Refer to this article that appeared in a newspaper.

Mythology for the Millennial: Illegitimate offspring abound in Mahabharata, but none so pivotal as Satyavati

Satyavati’s story is the only one in the Mahabharata to feature a heroic journey by an illegitimate girl child

www.firstpost.com

Any reasonable person would conclude that the act by the original poster of that thread was indeed an act of plagiarism. Note: As it stands, no reference was given to the newspaper article nor appropriate credit is given. The post is verbatim copied!

This was pointed out in the relevant thread itself. But that post was unceremoniously removed citing some inappropriate language. The post that plagiarizes the article from the newspaper stands. I am reminded of the proverbial act of blind men leading other blind men. Congrats!

AS mentioned several times before, if you have an issue with someone or something, best is to bring to my notice either via email or PM or by using the report post feature.


Posting publicly like this is not the right way and is something that I do not expect from senior members like you.

You have an issue, raise it up in the right place and in the right way.

This thread is now closed.