What is Chess.coms policy on Plagiarism?

I couldn't find a posted policy concerning plagiarism and/or the use of copyrighted pictures and other images without permission. I personally have read a couple posts by a member here that were copied and pasted word for word from another source, without citation or even quotation marks, in short, passing others work off as their own words.

Note: I was in community when I posted this there, for some reason whenever I post a new thread on my android, it automatically defaults to chess discussion.

Mmm, I'd assume that can happen often and would be virtually impossible to police it.

I said it on another thread fella, unhealthy obsession.

@Bonsai_Dragon Please read https://www.chess.com/legal shows policy on copyright material

If you're not careful they may make you retake the exam

Others should cite the authors: do they think people would be more impressed with THEIR words over, say, Keres or Tal or Fischer or Nunn, etc?  I always cite the original author because they are much better at chess than me and the words should carry more respect that way!  I don't always cite the books in which I found old GM games I post since the games were not part of the author's work unless I include their annotations.

Well put. I think when one uses the words of others, the author or source should always be cited. Failure to do this makes it appear you are attempting to pass their words off as your own. I know some people to this intentionally to appear more knowledgeable or intelligent than they actually are, however some just may not know that using another's work without giving proper credit is theft and certainly questions the ethical makeup of the perpetrator.

i thought this was a joke site ?

Its a real life site with real and fake people from all walks. Just saying..

hey i just got blocked by ReincarnationofBobby, is that guy ok ? i thought blocking was only for troublemakers or is that another joke ? maybe he thought i was taking a poke at him ? aw yeah that must be it :) or its just another of the multitude of things that make no sense here, problem sorted.

15 percent of twitter accounts are bots. Pretty much the same here if not more pretty much the same here if not more pretty much the same here if not more 

gee thanks! i wouldn't have copped on to that.

  Originally, Bobby was an infamous blocker on religious grounds. However, is THIS a violation of the copyright. 2Q1C has a thread about "Culture Vultures".  I figured he just bought a new Allan Parsons Project album.                                                                                                                                

thanks Ronald, good idea for a new band too! Vulture Club, maybe Boy George will join.

Maybe he dont like smokers Public-image   People block for all sorts of reasons.Ive been blocked by people ive never spoke to,lol.

I don't want to know how many here have copyrighted images as the profile picture. I don't even want to guess that!

your chance of getting that right is very slim indeed!

I prefer to use all my own images whenever possible.