Open letter to the moderators

[AndroidUser]

You're right, it's not plagiarism,.. it's content-theft. Even if you are crediting the author, you still have not received permission to reproduce the content. Note that this isn't a legal matter per say, it's an ethical one. It reflects poorly on the owners and users of the entire community.

Take it as you will. At the end of the day it is ultimately up to the Leads and Heads. Not the staff or mods. You seem like you have a lot of input. Request to refused9150 to become staff or send him a message with the official code of ethics if it is that much of a concern. Until then we are going to continue to enforce the rules of this website.

[AndroidUser]

Don't take that comment seriously. Just felt like lightening the mood.

Mood lightened

[tokyomonster]

Take it as you will. At the end of the day it is ultimately up to the Leads and Heads. Not the staff or mods. You seem like you have a lot of input. Request to refused9150 to become staff or send him a message with the official code of ethics if it is that much of a concern. Until then we are going to continue to enforce the rules of this website.

Can we at least know what the rules are? Designdawg said it's ok to link, susan and gasbot said it's not.

The whole purpose of this thread was for clarification of the rules..

[GasBot]

You're either intentionally or accidentally missing his point completely. If you'd like I can break it down for you.

I guess I just don't think that linking out is as big of a deal as you do.

Personally if I can click on a thread and read the information right there, I'm happy. Having to click another link to get it is a waste of time. I understand giving credit where its due and that's why I said that I wouldn't mind if someone said they had seen this over at some other site.

Please keep in mind that these are MY opinions, and not that of the Android Community website.

To be completely honest, I hate even having to click the links in talkback articles to see the full article, I wish the first post there would have the entire article so I didn't have to do a second click.

[GasBot]

Can we at least know what the rules are? Designdawg said it's ok to link, susan and gasbot said it's not.

The whole purpose of this thread was for clarification of the rules..

Just go with DesignDawg's explanation as I'm sure it's the correct one.

[smoger]

Take it as you will. At the end of the day it is ultimately up to the Leads and Heads.

I understand that. However, the mods are the ones who are in here trying to explain things to us. So if the "heads" say one thing, and then the mods say another, clearly not everyone is on the same page.

send him a message with the official code of ethics

if he needs me to explain etiquette and ethics to him, he needs to take a few more courses before he's ready to be running a website.

[GasBot]

I understand that. However, the mods are the ones who are in here trying to explain things to us. So if the "heads" say one thing, and then the mods say another, clearly not everyone is on the same page.



if he needs me to explain etiquette and ethics to him, he needs to take a few more courses before he's ready to be running a website.

He doesn't, that's the point.

[AndroidUser]

Can we at least know what the rules are? Designdawg said it's ok to link, susan and gasbot said it's not.

The whole purpose of this thread was for clarification of the rules..

I can see how it would be confusing. From my (unofficial) understanding we are aloud to link so long as the majority of the info from the link is found in the post, then that's fine.

Technically people are not allowed to post just a link.
Here's why: Since the growth of AC, we've been fighting spam like crazy.
What the mods job is, is to read the link to make sure that its a legit post. Then we add the article as well as the LINK.

Another problem we've been having is spam from competitors. People from other sites will come on here just to exclusively link all the info to their site. This is considered spam. In the rules we are not able to link to different Android communities. (Not my rules)

So yes we may link. As long as the majority of the post is included with the link. No we may not link to other Android communities.

For futher details contact refused9150