Quote award.

Philllyyyyyyyyyy i SOOOO completely agree with you...what is the point of having an award for one thing and not the other..its pretty pointless actually!!! you made a GREAT point hun!!!

yes this is defiantly a great idea.

Before Janis would introduce a quote award, I'm sure he would have to make it so we can report quote plagiary. It wouldn't surprise me if 50-75% of the quotes are not original... and that fact may be why there is not an award of any kind for them.

well, quote plagiary is a whole different debate... this thread was about a quote award, So I will digress and say this would be a fine idea if Janis wants to incorprate it.

I totally agree with the idea...

But another problem is, that there's alot of people who trick people into giving them votes.

Example:

"I love someone who doesn't love me. Vote a 5 if you have ever felt this way."

I defintely agree with that. I have seen some worthy quotes and its sad they can only get a '5' rating.

So, we should have Quote Awards.

I agree with this idea. I also agree that there will be plagiarism. But I'm ssure there will be a button to report such abuse, as in with the poems.

I totally agree with this idea,,,, we should have quotes award... for posting them and rating them... that would be a good idea

i like your idea.. :P lol.. but i think we should have an average quote rating, you know like we have an average poem rating? like with the poems award, if you have 30 poems with a rating of 4.3 you get an award right? so we should do that for quotes.. if you get, for example, a rating of 4.6 and at least 20 quotes, then you get an award.. that way, they would have to be good quotes.. :)

not necessarily.. i get the feeling that people pay even less attention to what they vote on quotes than on poems, and plagarized quotes probably fare better than most homemade ones.

Plagarized quotes easily exist, by the way. Quoting something like "I think, therefore I am", or even in the latin form Cogito Ergo Sum, is plagarism. I'd even go so far as to say a quote like "If you love someone, set them free" is a plagarized quote, or at the very least shouldn't be in a person's profile as an original quote.

I'm worried, as Sluvious brought up, about the spamming of quotes for the award.

If there was to be an award, there'd need to be a plagarism report link for the quotes, a community willing to report quotes that are obviously plagarized, and moderators willing to have to deal with all that crap.

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OMG LMAO @ Satin .....gotta love her .
Sorry I'm off topic but it was just that darn cute .......lol

Quotes award I think is a really bad idea ....
There would be so many people doing the old copy and paste just to get an award .

Then if there was an award , they would want a comment box......and so on , so I think quotes award = a big pain in the butt

But hey that's just my opinion, and who cares what I think.......lol

I enjoy reading quotes, 'plagerised' or not, so i don't think there should be a BAN as such. But there are many people out there who do come up with witty, original quotes and these could be considered for awards. Have you thought about having 2 sections? Like, a box you tick if it's original, before you submit the quote? Then the award quotes could just be taken from the 'original' section?

non-original quotes are against site rules. If we had a box to tick, I guess that'd help us in deleting all the plagarized quotes... I'm not sure if that was your original intent though.

Whether or not you enjoy plagarized quotes isn't the issue. They're plagarized.

"play it again sam"

^^ Lol, actually in the Movie, he never says, "play it again sam" he says, "play it sam"

And as for this post, I don't think there should be a quote award, considering almost all the quotes posted are plagarized. There is no point.

Peace, Joe