Cheating = suspension.
End Of Story.

So my advice to you is just to be a sweet pickle and everything will turn out for you in life - everything.

I agree that cheating is wrong, but that saying "When you cheat you are only cheating yourself!" is such a crock of sh*t lol.

I agree.
Ridiculous statement: Cheating is ok if you have to get 100% or else your dead grandmother will come from the dead and shove tuna up your nose until you are dead.

People in stone houses should not throw glass.

I agree.
Ridiculous statement: Cheating is ok if you have to get 100% or else your dead grandmother will come from the dead and shove tuna up your nose until you are dead.

People in stone houses should not throw glass.

CRAPPY COMPUTORED!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqTHmzMk0Cw

Tee-hee! sorry! EXPECTO-PATRO-NADS!!!!!!!!

People in stone houses should not throw glass.

OK, fanfiction is very much not cheating. I understand that it can be viewed that way, especially because you are taking someone else's characters, but I think it's OK, as long as you have a different story. Plus, that would be more of an "Aww thank you" thing to me, then an "OMG I wi' kee you cos you tookee my charra...!"

But plagarism is WRONG. I am such a writer - I hate it when other people take my story lines and pretend they were the ones to come up with it. It's like, "Graargh!!" No one should do that.

Sorry about the vocabulary, I just passed this really hot guy in the hall, and I think my brain has permenantly turned to mush. =)

.:suzu-chan/killijoy/Joeys Cupcake:.
.:"No time for goodbyes," he said, as he faded away. "It's hard to imagine, but one day you'll end up like me." Then he said, "If you want to stay alive, hold on for your life.":.

I can understand the pressure... that doesn't excuse anyone from plagiarizing, but there is a LOT of pressure to succeed for some teens and that plus the "cruel world" attitude (you have to cheat to survive, etc) that a lot of people have makes teenagers willing to do unethical things in the face of failure. And once one student goes that far to get ahead, it creates an unfair advantage that spurs other students to cheat in order to level the playing field.

In short, the competitive school system is sick.

Pull down the future with the one you love.
~Television.

Hear hear, Kat!

.:suzu-chan/killijoy/Joeys Cupcake:.
.:"No time for goodbyes," he said, as he faded away. "It's hard to imagine, but one day you'll end up like me." Then he said, "If you want to stay alive, hold on for your life.":.

The key here is to separate moral ideals from real life. Research shows that it is the children with higher brain capacities who will lie to their parents to get away with something and the less bright ones who tend to be honest 100% of the time.

You know what bothers me most?

The fact that our society has a tendency of pushing people into corners, of making stealing, cheating, and lying so necessary to survive.

Thank you!

Ah, and Carolyn, this is the last time I'm going to say it: if you post any links in non-related threads again, I will be forced to treat you as a spammer. I don't want to do that.

That's not what I'm talking about. There are stories online that have several authors have claimed to have written. These are the EXACT SAME WORDS put online by several people.
Basically, the plaigarists take other people's fan fiction and claim it is their own.
That's not good. Especially when one considers that the stories that are stolen are just awful.

Here's an example of a plaigarized fan fiction I recently saw in the Beyblade fandom:

Yes, that's the entire story. Stick around for the next chapter, BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB.