Should Mahalo have a plagiarism checker installed on the website to catch all duplicated answers? Read more inside?

I think it would be a great idea but until then I will keep bookmarked and use this plagiarism checker dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/ Dustball does a good job of finding the source or sources that a person might have stolen their words from. When I read a journalistic quality Mahalo answer from a new user here (like the one you pointed out) I almost always run it through Dustball for a couple of reasons; one I want to insure the answer I'm about to vote for is actually written by that user, two I am always on the look out for new star quality writers here because one of the educational facets on Mahalo for me is improving my own writing. I learn how to improve my own writing from the great writers we have here, and three .. it is just not fair to those of us who use all of our own words when someone gets away with a big copypasta answer like that one.

I would love to see a an auto-detector of plagiarism. Maybe just an "Are these your own words" pop up every time we submit an answer with a notice if the words are plagiarized then it is an illegal answer and considered very bad form here in Mahalo Answers. With all of the other new expansions and improvements Mahalo has been making in the past few months I would not imagine that a automatic plagiarism detector is on their list of things to do but it is on my dream Mahalo list of features.

Until then lets just keep our eyes open and Dustball bookmarked.

I think it would be a good idea. Other sites have that capability, so Mahalo should be able to do the same. It would help keep Mahalo reputable and posters honest!

Well, the idea sounds well. Hope so Mahalo Team work on it and find some nice solutions for checking plagiarism. However, initially what they do, installed a application or develop some new software that able to check the duplicate answers with in Mahalo community automatically whenever some one posts new answer.

I think this is a great idea, until then it's up to everyone else to be a little skeptical if something sounds to good. We can be our own plagiarism checkers! Does anyone know if @Javedkhan is aware of how looked down upon this is?

Im thinking he might of thought it was OK because if you look at all his other answers this 20M$ BA sticks out like a sore thumb.

I think it would be a great idea. As long it doesn't slow down Mahalo. It should be the asker's responsibility to check if an answer has been copied and pasted.

Unfortunately, the asker might feel like it's too much work for an answer. And ignore where the answer came from. So, a good system I have seen is, other answerers checking to make sure a "too good to be true" answer is really originally from the answerer.

I think it's part of the competition for best answer. And it feels good to expose cheaters, who might otherwise have stolen your chances of getting a best answer. I think the site Buddawiggi shared with us is a very good tool, to use here at Mahalo.

I have already bookmarked it. :).

" Someone took off with a $21 question, I believe it should be taken away from their credit.

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