Dear New Friends and Potential Friends:
Please be very careful creating posts by copying content from other web sites.
It is important to do these 4 things:
Step One: FIRST AND ALWAYS: Bring in other content after explaining it's impact or usefulness to you. In other words, explain why your readers should be interested. (Example: I found this info and it helped me make stuffs. See my stuffs!)
Step Two: ALWAYS Discuss the original content that the other person created! (Step 2 is not "reword it." That can still get you in trouble with lawyers and legals.) Talk about how accurate you found their content to be. (or) Talk about how you agree or disagree. (or) Talk about how you want to use their instructions or ideas in your own work and life. (or) Talk about why you think other people should use the this person's ideas. (or etc)
I know Step Two sounds like Step One.
Step One is like the introduction that makes your readers understand why they should be interested.
Step Two is the justification for quoting other people's work directly. Step Two is the foundation of "fair use" in review and commentary and critique. It is probably the most foundational step to staying legal.
Step 3: ALWAYS Place all quoted content inside a "quote block" (see below). To begin the block, insert a blank line before the content. Then, use the > symbol before each paragraph that is quoted. Insert another blank line to finish the block of quoted text.
content quoted from other sources should be place inside a "quote block."
Hint: If we are pasting anything from another web site, it is plagiarizing (stealing from other writers and artists) IF we do not give the other web site, author, &/or artist credit (See step 4). It is also plagiarizing if their content is the only content we're posting. (Yes, even if we give credit.) There are lawyers and agencies that do nothing more than find people who are "stealing content." So. It is best to only use a small amount of quoted content.
Step 4: ALWAYS make a sentence about the web site(s) where the content originated. And and link to the other web site. This must also be done for all photographs you use that you did not personally generate.
Yes. Even if the content is content you created on another web site, provide links. It's also good to provide a proof that you created the content on both sites.
After 
So. Serious stuff here.
Please do these steps! It makes me sad when I see you lose opportunities.
Your friend,
Marilla
This is for all the new people I keep bumping into who have been falsely trained by FB and other social media.
It is here for me to link to for the next 500 years, or 50 days, if either comes first.
If you find it is an easy thing for you to link people to this post, you are welcome to do that.
This is my disclaimer of responsibility for you.
- I did not make up these rules.
- I do NOT promise my explanation of the rules will completely keep you out of trouble with the legals.
- I am under the impression they will keep you out of trouble with
- The rules change.
If you get in trouble for following my advice, you better find someone who is more strict with rule following than I am.
And let me close with my "I don't give a care" section.
I do not care what you think the rules should be.
These are the rules that other people will punish you for breaking.
They might not follow you, They might report you. They might down-vote you. They might down-vote you into the dust. They (the original creators) might take you to court.
I'm just trying to help you survive the game in one piece.