Alleged Cheating

[CATBUG!]

Oct 5, 2014 16:16:08 GMT -7 Captain M said:

Hello Data,

It has come to the attention of staff that you copied directly from another website for one of your training posts in this: X thread. Plagiarism, even from Wikipedia(this page specifically) is considered TP cheating. Having been a member of this site on and off for several years, you are expected to know of these rules, and their consequences.

Your consequences:

Your warning level will be bumped up to a 66%.

You will suffer a TP deduction of 65% on all characters. Your main character on the Catbug account now has : 1300 TP. You will need to modify your signature and profile to accommodate this penalty. The details of the penalties given for TP cheating are found in this thread: here.

If you have any questions, I or any member of staff will be available to answer. Thank you.

M

I have apparently been flagged for cheating. I dont understand why or how, But i can assure you i have never once cheated on this forum. I have far too much respect for my skills to degrade them by coping someone elses work.

I was not provided with proof that i was cheating, There was no comparison between the two posts. I would Really like to know how my post was like any other training on another site.

I do not feel that these charges are right. Unless proof is provided i see no sound reasoning to be punished with a TP reduction.

You know me, you know from experiance with me that i would never cheat like this. It goes against everything i believe in as a writer and a Roleplayer to copy something.

[Solus]

Your training in the thread M linked (click the X) contains the following section:

She sat down in her hide out and turned on her lamp. The soft light giving her just enough light to read. “Astral projection (or astral travel) is an interpretation of out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of an "astral body" separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside it. Astral projection or travel denotes the astral body leaving the physical body to travel in an astral plane. The idea of astral travel is rooted in common worldwide religious accounts of the afterlife in which the consciousness' or soul's journey or "ascent" is described in such terms as "an... out-of body experience, wherein the spiritual traveller leaves the physical body and travels in his/her subtle body (or dreambody or astral body) into ‘higher’ realms."[3] It is frequently reported in association with dreams, and forms of meditation.”

Which contains a direct copy from the wikipedia page on 'Astral Projection' found here: Link. You even copied the [3] Wikipedia uses for references. Sorry man, but you copied it, we cannot make anything else of it. That's plagiarism and not allowed as per the NFRP rules, or any rules for that matter.

[CATBUG!]

Wow, so going out of my way to find relevent information to include in my roleplay post isnt allowed? I highly dought using a paragraph to allow my character some reading material to begin training some thing deserves a TP reduction. Ill take the 66 percent warning. but a TP reduction is very harsh dont you think?

I wasnt using the information in a malicious way i was using it to make my character learning the technique more plausible. Its not like i copied an entire post from another Roleplayer. Its information that is there so that others may refer to it. I was using the material as it was intended.

[Solus]

Finding relevant material is allowed, copy pasting it into your training is not. You were using it in a malicious way, by pasting it into your training posts which are should be 100% unique, aka, your material and nothing else. It is especially not the intended use for wikipedia. You can read up on stuff there, but you are not supposed to copy paste from it.

Please, don't make me explain the meaning of the word 'plagiarism' to you.

[CATBUG!]

Well this is news to me. Ive done this before in other trainings throughout my rp life on this site and not once have i been called out on it. but i wont argue. ill take the tp reduction, although i dont agree with it.

will i have to edit the existing character so it only has 1300 tp?

[Solus]

No, the penalty for cheating on a B-ranked character is not a reduction to 65% but a reduction of 65%. You have 2000 TP now according to your bio. So you lose 65% of that, which is 1300 TP, leaving you with 700 TP. I shall move your bio to N/F Character Submissions so you can work on it there. Edit it to make it have only 700 TP

[hass]

I don't know if I'm allowed to butt in, but I'd like to say something.

Data, don't you think you could rephrase that into your own words?

SPOILER: Click to show

Astral projection (or astral travel) is an interpretation of out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of an "astral body" separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside it. Astral projection or travel denotes the astral body leaving the physical body to travel in an astral plane. The idea of astral travel is rooted in common worldwide religious accounts of the afterlife in which the consciousness' or soul's journey or "ascent" is described in such terms as "an... out-of body experience, wherein the spiritual traveller leaves the physical body and travels in his/her subtle body (or dreambody or astral body) into ‘higher’ realms."[3] It is frequently reported in association with dreams, and forms of meditation. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection

"Astral projection, simplified, can be described as having an "out of body" experience where a so called "astral body" is assumed. This astral body is a separate entity from your physical body, a person can supposedly travel out of their own body to achieve this. Astral projection or travel allows the astral body to enter something called the "astral plane", of course after leaving the physical one..." 

Yada yada yada, you get the point. Even if you're unsure of something you could always ask the cbox for help or even post in the support forum. The idea of roleplaying is using your creativity to play a role by changing your own behavior, normally for a school project you wouldn't take that hunk of information and call it your own. That's plagiarism, to get around this you could have paraphrased the information and even left a source behind.

[CATBUG!]

lock please.

[Solus]

~Locking