Homeschoolers - has this happened to you? A member copies and pastes your answer to the same question?

Question

Has this happened to you?

I just saw that someone (BJ) copied and pasted my exact answer to this question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080331161448AAaonnT&r=w#JJNkG1T2VErCKVA8tbvb

I reported him, but what else should I do? He does not accept email, so I can't write him about it.

Answer 1

Reporting him is all you can do. It's very clearly against Y!A rules. Don't know if he'll get banned for a first offence.

Answer 2

I think you might as well take it as a compliment that he feels he wants to put his name to your answer.  It's better far than a thumbs down, isn't it?

Answer 3

You just report them when they do that. I've seen it happen in here before as well as other areas. They do it for points.

Answer 4

I don't know why someone would do that.  I reported him also.

Answer 5

Yes, he is a repeat offender.  Is there somewhere on here where you can report an infringement on intellectual property?  That is what it is.  I found it but lost the spot.

Answer 6

I was so tempted to copy and paste your question as a new one - you know, as an April fools joke...

But, I decided that enough people would probably not get it and report me and I would get kicked off while the real trouble makers continue to go on with their nonsense...

I did notice the one you mention... I was just quickly scanning through and I thought... wait a minute that looks familiar...

What is worse, there are unscrupulous forum / discussion group owners that "scrape" content from Y!A and post it in their forums as if a user had done so... But wait, it gets better.  They even take your username.  Do a google on your username and you will see some of your posts in forums that you have had nothing to do with (easier to find them with a unique username).

Oh well... I'm rambling.

Answer 7

Why would you care?  Are you getting paid for this?  Let Yahoo handle it.  You've already done enough by reporting it.

Answer 8

Weird isn't it?