Cut-and-paste policy

[James R]

To all Religion forum posters:

The moderators have recently noticed that some posters are posting large verbatim extracts of text from other sites. This is undesirable for several reasons:

• It uses up storage space on sciforums.
• It duplicates information which is easily accessible elsewhere.
• It can disrupt the flow of a thread, because posters have to scroll through large amounts of text which they may not wish to read.
• It may breach copyright laws.

From now on, therefore, we ask that posters abide by the following guidelines:

• All quotes from other sites must be attributed (e.g. by posting a link to the site).
• Quoted text should be restricted to a few lines or a paragraph unless the poster is quoting the text along with his or her own detailed analysis (interspersed with the text).
• Avoid verbatim reproduction of entire posts of other posters (e.g. from earlier in a thread). If you want to dissect a post, it is fine to split it into different parts, but do not simply quote the entire post and then add a one or two line comment.
  

Here's an example:
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What's your spiritual type?

"What's your religion?" It used to be such a simple question to answer. But now you might be "spiritual but not religious"--or raised in one faith but practicing another. Maybe you're a Methodist but think of yourself more as an evangelical, or a seeker who is anti-religion--or born again. The old categories don't seem to work because the religious landscape has changed so much. ... The quiz is meant to help you learn about your self.

http://www.beliefnet.org/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=&surveyID=27