Why people plagiarize

[LoyceV]

If you are completely incompetent, you might say nothing at all;
   if you are bullshitting, you could continuously spew away.

This reminds me of this graph:

(image source | I think this is the original source, but I can't access it to verify)

Users in the "Mount Stupid" category usually end up on my Ignore list.

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[gagux123]

Plagiarism or paraphrasing is a common habit to people who are not ready to learn, all they think is to be so fast to take people's work elsewhere to meet up the standard of members who have paid price and time for years to have a sound knowledge. This members who plagiarized hide themselves in a sheep clothes having the mindset stealing a work from outside they won't be caught in the forum.

The reason I think why people often plagiarize is because they look down on themselves by hiding the little knowledge they have in them, they feel shy about it not knowing that if they express the little knowledge inside of them will make them to know more and help them to grow . I believe what is being practiced  by a person makes the person to be better or perfect. I feel the main reason why people plagiarize they feel lazy, not ready to learn to grow and they want to be in a class or level of people who have spent to get knowledge.

Hmm.... well, this is an interesting topic for us to discuss about this theme

But in my opinion I believe that people plagiarize are:

- They don't have a very deep knowledge in a certain area of knowledge and that's why they intend to "create" something of quality by plagiarizing others.

- Laziness to research and chase your goals

- People can do this because they don't have enough time to complete a certain task, for example, creating a scientific paper that will need to be delivered tomorrow, it will do everything to deliver it but can also plagiarize to complete this task

[ifarted]

The reason I think why people often plagiarize is because they look down on themselves by hiding the little knowledge they have in them, they feel shy about it not knowing that if they express the little knowledge inside of them will make them to know more and help them to grow . I believe what is being practiced  by a person makes the person to be better or perfect. I feel the main reason why people plagiarize they feel lazy, not ready to learn to grow and they want to be in a class or level of people who have spent to get knowledge.

For me, the main reason would be mostly because they're lazy. They copied and acted like they own their words because it's easier for them. They get paid while pretending to be smart without breaking a sweat and for them it's the best trick they could pull off.

Well there are some other people out there who uses plagiarism because they only had little knowledge. It's understandable but still wrong because they are preventing themselves from learning. In own perspective it's still part of laziness because why not learn. It's easier and mostly it's much safer to avoid being banned.

[fillippone]

It may take you an hour or two, but not me, and I would say neither 99% of the forum or more. One thing is that you start a thread like fillippone's, in that case it is plausible that it took him that time, for example:

ALPS BLOCKCHAIN: mining in Italy from 100% renewable energy.

I wish it took only two hours to write that post.
I have no precise statistics, but I guess more plausible figure is double of that time (research, editing, posting, proofreading, some back and forth communication to correct details with the support of the people working at the firm etc).

I am almost sure the most time-consuming OP is this one:
Everything you wanted to know about BTC options but were afraid to ask!

It took weeks to complete, and I guess active work on that easily north of ten hours.

[noormcs5]

Because they have a hard time coming up with words, ideas and structure and it's much easier to plagiarize someone's work rather than just making your own stuff.

If they cant do the hard work to prepare and write the posts themselves, then there is no space from them in this forum. The more quickly they copy paste the posts and make their task easier, the quicker the forum bans them forever.

[Pmalek]

But why people don't use their brain creating posts? It takes minutes to write something, not hours..

You can't use your brain if you don't have any knowledge of the things you write about. People copy-paste because it's easier to meet their post quota. They post because they want to earn. They aren't interested in learning about Bitcoin, acquiring some knowledge and experience, and displaying that through their posts. Many don't even speak English, like The Pharmacist mentioned.