Stealing

I dont know if anyone else has realized this and I dont want to be a burden or anything but I seem to have realized as I read through poems on here and read the comments people are stealing others writing. Not completely stealing the whole poem but the way it is written and what it is about being the same. Its getting really annoying. So please write your own stuff and dont steal.

some ppl just think the same way so it just look like ther stealng but on he other hand there are also ppl that do

That is usually what happens when there is a site like this

Let me give you guys an example of what i mean. Someone wrote a poem and posted it. Someone looked at the poem and commented on it. The next day they posted a poem that is along the same lines and is about the same thing.

if that made any sence

yea they took the persons idea

see that is what I am talking about. And I have seen that more than once. I dont understand why people would do that.

becuz they cant come up with anything of their own and their too lazy to try

guess youre right

that is what i said eariler

I agree with you guys alot of people have the same genral concepts, but it is wrong when someone actually steals the idea.

you all make perfect sence. thanks for clearing that up for me. I can see what you all mean now. Thanks

I agree. its wrong and ppl shudnt steal.

its just low

how can we report it ?
i'm sorry i'v only had a membership for 6 days and i'm so clueless

no its not really considered stealing. i call it the "cant think of your own ideas so jock some ideas from someone else" type of poem lmfao =]].

Plain and simple, sometimes you just like the other's persons idea, angle. We've all had our writing, poetry, inspired, by someone else's writing, song, or poetry - either by admiring their style and way of writing, expression, or by the fact they were saying what we felt, what we essentially wanted to say, and they did is so well, with such effectiveness, that we adopted a similar style. I know, I been influenced by others writing, by certain songs, by great poets of the past, and by slam poetry of today. Sometimes, I'll see something someone else has done and go, that'll work for me, I can do something with that concept, idea, or see something some one else did and say that's very good, one hell of a concept, idea, let me see if I can do that but better. I feel it's not about the originality of the idea, but the quality of the work, how good the poem is. I don't care who did it first, but who did it better, and it's a compliment to you, when somebody wants to or does copy your idea!!! People can copy my poetic concepts, if the want, but I know this, they'll never be able to do it better than I did it, and if they are, more power to them.

very well said robert^, i agree, some people do read a poem and use the same idea, sometimes i get my inspiration from another poem, like ill read one and see a word i dont use alot, and ill incorporate the word into another poem, but you cant call it stealing because you are not using the same lines as the writer of the poem.

I think all of you are right. There are many different types of people on this site. I believe that some may get inspiration from another's work. Some may not have read every poem on the site and don't realize they may have a similar idea and maybe some are thieves, I would hope not but you never know..........

I agree. It's on the purpose of the writer.

But somehow, it's really stealing. The credit should be given to the person who had the original idea.

I'm having this problem right now and i don't know what to do about it. She's a nice girl and she's only young but she knows shes doing it.
I'll write a poem on a certain subject and a few hours later i'll see a new poem posted on hers.. Same subject, same phrases and in some cases same titles.
She apologised when i made a point about it and stopped for a while but it's starting up again now and i don't know what to do about it.
It's not straight foreward stealing so i can't report it but i feel horrible when i see my ideas used by someone else after i've posted them. Violated in a way.
Meh, i dunno anymore. But i agree with what your saying.
*Gem*

it's called plagiarism
don't do it, you don't have to worry
if it'sdoneto you, file a complaint

WORD. but sometimes when you read a lot of poetry that has a similar flair or style it gets ingrained in your head and writing. and sometimes its completely coincidental. its very difficult nowadays to write something completely and utterly original that resembles NOTHING ever written before. i think its virtually impossible. i could be wrong though. i DO think its wrong though to intentionally mimic other people's writing. someone worked hard for that style and that innovation and its just really disrespectful to copy it.

alot of people think that being copied is the highest form of praise

i agree and if ppl get ideas from my work i'm just happy that my poetry has had such good influences on other ppl. i no i've read poems that are on here and are very similar to mine, which i certainly haven't stole, and were posted before mine. there is only so many ideas no matter how original one thinks they are being.

Yeah well there's only so many times i can see the same titles, phrases and idea's used a few hours after i've posted by the same person?
Coincidence... yeah. ok

I could never steal anything. I would feel guilty about it forever.

agreeing with *Gem* if one person keeps doing it u should report them, it must be a bit annoyin im gonna try n find who it is from readin ur poems n if someone other then u can notice it, then its obviously really bad! report them

ok i cudnt find them but u have a lot of poems, so if u give some indications of which poems, i'll have a look :D