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At the school where I work, students are routinely caught plagiarizing and graded down or failed for it. If a student's writing is bad enough that they would need to resort to a ghostwriter, it's usually pretty easy to tell that they cheated. Simply asking them a few questions about the paper is often enough to expose the shenanigans. What the prevalence of these plagiarist ideologies seems to indicate to me is that too many professors are far too lazy about grading papers, if so many kids get away with it. Dave brings up an interesting point. I shudder to think, given how much writing I have out there that comes up in a Google search, of students trying to pass my stuff off as acceptable academic prose. But I don't think the ethics should necessarily be different when publishing or discussing online, not for the legitimate content producer. The sin is the cheater's and doesn't belong to those stolen from. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:39 AM, D G Mattichak jr <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Believe me when I say that the stuff that I get asked to write is never as > interesting as the conversations here! I have taken comment threads from > here to other pagan/magick web forums to see what they had to say though. > This site remains the most interesting though! :) >