Hi everyone. I've noticed that some members are not properly quoting news articles per SSC guidelines. I would like to remind everyone that because of copyright/legal reasons, we can no longer post entire news articles here in the forums. I ask that everyone please adhere to format stated in Jan's announcement when quoting news articles.
Thanks for making a note about this, Hart; it is very important to the website that we don't contravene copyright laws, and we stick to "fair usage". As much as we hate doing it, I'm afraid we will have to edit quotes that are too long and simply leave a small paragraph or so at the beginning. Please help us by posting correctly in the first place.
Thank you!! :cheers:
I'm still seeing some members not correctly quoting news articles. THIS MUST CEASE! As Taller, Better mentioned, overly long articles will have to be shortened.
Please use the format that is outlined in post #3 of this thread. Please keep in mind that the QUOTE brackets MUST enclose the article snippet, AND a link to the full article MUST be provided.
Everyone, I'm still seeing articles that exceed the abstract limit that we need to abide by. I once again ask the you please limit news article quotes to about 100 words or less, and always post a link to the full story. I will have to shorten long articles. Thank you.
As a reminder, posting full-text news articles are not allowed due to reasons of needing to respect copyrights. I am still seeing members not properly quote an abstract form of an article.
Jan has recently posted a new announcement regarding this and other such matters. I ask everyone here to take a few moments to read over the policies.
I may have quoted more than a 100 words myself to include relevant content, would it be alright to chop up portions of an article than and not leave it in exact form?
^ You can quote excerpts from an article in any order you want, but there should not be more than 3 excerpts and they shouldn't total more than about 100 words or so.
^It would be per each distinct 3rd party source... So if you had a post quoting three distinct articles, from three distinct sources, you could conceivably post more than 100 quoted words within your post. If they were three articles from the same publisher, then you would be wise to limit the post to reproducing only 100 words total. Concurrently, quoting multiple 100 word snippets from the same article in successive posts would also violate the concept of fair use.
I had written a global announcement like this many years ago, which explained fair use in a bit more detail, but IIRC everything I made like that had a 10 year timer on it (the software's default). So after 10 years, it automatically deleted (though it would still be accessible for Admins if they know where to look in the forum's control panel)
Hey everyone, I am still seeing members not properly quoting news articles. If you receive a P.M. from me kindly asking you to edit your post, then please take a few moments to do so. Regretfully, I will have to begin to go in and edit posts myself if they are left unedited.
Thank you.
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