Insert Quote vs Source links

[Taskford]

Hey guys, I have just read about this "Plagiarism" thing
in this forum that could make your account Ban. I am just wondering if by referencing and supporting my post, maybe I can use "insert quote" rather posting "source link" like this :

Bitcoin is an electronic payment system created in 2009. It allows you to send money to anyone in the world, and you don’t need to ask anyone’s permission to create an account.

vs
https://learnmeabitcoin.com/

By using insert quote, i think you can highlight the text to everyone rather than posting a source link which can be a time consuming to find the quoted text. By the way maybe i am wrong, but is there any difference?

To avoid any misconception or wrong things which can commit you a possible plagiarism act better quote the word you want to highlight then post also the link source of the site. By this you can assure that you didn't do anything wrong and just want to discuss what the article written.

Although this is time consuming but its more safer for us to do to avoid any issues.

[Smartvirus]

Plagiarism is one strick rule on the forum, it's been the main reason why most users have been shown the exit too early or much later on the forum. It is important that Plagiarism is a vice everywhere and not just on the forum except for the fact that, forum takes exception to enforcing it rigidly when found.

Although, a simple referencing is all that could save the day fir you at OP. Of course you've found that out buy if you ask me on either to use quotes or add link, it very much depends on the level of detailing.

* Should you wish to make emphasises on a particular statement and it happens to be one that isn't ambiguous, a quote serves best.
* should it be some ambiguous post for which would make a wall of text, a link could go fo that.
* Should you have take ideas of a post to make an overview in your post, a link as a reference to source would do.

The idea behind is, your not claiming the work to have been done by you. Do this and your saved from Plagiarism.

[autumnleaf]

There is actually one another method that no one has mentioned yet. You can put both the author and the clickable source link in your quotes, like this:

Bitcoin is an electronic payment system created in 2009. It allows you to send money to anyone in the world, and you don’t need to ask anyone’s permission to create an account

Code:

[quote="[url=https://learnmeabitcoin.com]Greg Walker[/url]"]Bitcoin is an electronic payment system created in 2009. It allows you to send money to anyone in the world, and you don’t need to ask anyone’s permission to create an account[/quote]

Wow! this is really useful and presentable in writing a post where you don't need to seperate links from the text quotes, where everything is embedded and clickable in a single line. Thanks for this and everyone who shared their tips and ideas.

[AakZaki]

For me both works depending on the writing style and how I want to share the information but using some external resources a source link is necessary so users can read about it in detail and credits goes to the orginal author saving your from plagiarism on forum as well.

But sometimes you can highlight point in quote that shares something useful and readers can focus on that part only.So you can say we can use them both in combination to improve our post quality keeping up the forum rules.

Of course, I think the most important thing is that you cite the source. By source or quote and add a link I think about the same. If you use both it's like even better. But it seems that using one of them is not plagiarism. The most important thing is to quote in your own words it looks better in my opinion. But of course you also have to include sources from where you can. In addition to increasing the validity of the argument and avoiding plagiarism.

[UserU]

Never thought that it will work in this way after all this years lol. Although i think some or most people here doesn't know this thing too as i never saw someone made a quoted post the same like this aside from you.
Another knowledge unlock.

You could do that with images as well, except the brackets end before the img tag