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Re: Plagiarism again (Was: Can we say, "Plagiarism"?)
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:11:46 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tony Priestman writes:
> > > I haven't looked, so I can't comment on the rules, but rather than
> > > getting all formal, they could just say that the submission must
> > > include a picture of the submitter *with* their creation, as well as
> > > any other pictures.
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> > I thought about suggesting that, but I dismissed it as a bad idea, as
> > it might attract kidnappers or child pornographers or something.
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> Well, they wouldn't have to display the 'proof' picture, just have it as
> evidence. One would hope that they've got internal procedures for stuff
> like pornography, and no one else needs to see it.
But how would they know that the kid pictured was the kid who sent in the
application?
The safest way to determine that no cheating has taken place might be to cache
every LEGO image on the internet and compare using image recognition. A little
silly considering todays technology, but it's not too far off. Or maybe people
who post LEGO images could request that TLC keeps up-to-date with the images on
their site. It may be overkill, but otherwise is there a fool-proof way to
conduct LEGO-building competions on the internet?
Richard
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 | | Re: Plagiarism again (Was: Can we say, "Plagiarism"?)
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| (...) Maybe applicants could contact Lego in advance of model submission, and Lego could then send a visually distinctive (by color, perhaps, or image pattern?) voucher that must appear in the picture with the prospective model. This probably isn't (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Plagiarism again (Was: Can we say, "Plagiarism"?)
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| On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Susan Hoover (<8EC76843Erumplestx...8.63.236>) wrote at 15:49:58 (...) Well, they wouldn't have to display the 'proof' picture, just have it as evidence. One would hope that they've got internal procedures for stuff like (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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