cut-and-paste: just say no?
It has been suggested that wholesale cut-and-paste be banned here. The reasoning behind it being that it amounts to troll/spamish behavior. While it would be a judgement call, what has also been suggested is that some cut-and-paste be allowed, but it would have to be accompanied by some original analysis...ie you'd have to actually talk about what you're cut-and-pasting.
In other words, if *you* don't have something to say, then you can't just cut-and-paste someone elses stuff here.
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COPY AND PASTE USING THE MOUSE
Put the mouse at the beginning of what you want to copy and click the left mouse button, holding it down while you drag over the section.
Drag across or down. At the end of what you want copied, let go of the mouse button.
What you want to copy should be highlighted!
(If you goof, click the mouse button once to unhighlight, then start over.)
While it's highlighted, hold down the Ctrl key and hit the letter "c". This copies the highlighted part to an invisible clipboard.
Now go to where you want to paste it. Put the cursor on that spot by clicking the left mouse button once. Now hold down the Ctrl key and hit the letter "v" to paste what you copied.
If you want to move text from one place to another, highlight the text then hold down the Ctrl key and hit the letter "x". Click on the place you want to move it to, hold down the Ctrl key and hit the letter "v" to paste it in the new place.
(This cuts it from the original place, copies it to the invisible clipboard and then pastes it in the new place.)
Ctrl + c = copy
Ctrl + v = paste
Ctrl + x = move
HIGHLIGHTING USING THE KEYBOARD
Another quick tip to make life easier is learning how to use the keyboard to highlight things.
Put the cursor at the beginning of what you want to copy by clicking there once with the left mouse button.
Now hold down the Shift key and use either the arrow keys, the Home key or the End key to highlight.
The arrow keys are self-explanatory. (Try it!)
Holding down the Shift key and then hitting the Home key will highlight from the cursor to the beginning of a line.
Holding down the Shift key and then hitting the End key will highlight from the cursor to the end of a line.
Now you know how to copy and paste!!!!!
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I'm sorry...I'm in for lunch, been bush hogging all day and have nothing but horrid things to say about Google.
I'll do better
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I don't see your original analysis
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Talk? Analysis?"have something to say"?
Sounds un-American to me!
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quote:
Originally posted by nostatic
I don't see your original analysis
Jayne sucks.
I voted for analysis...
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Great Idea ! Original analysis is essential - cut and paste item should be LIMITED to 100 word sections with analysis attached. Thanks.
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Ctrl + x = cut
You are propagating incorrect data...
Now I don't know if Jayne sucks or not...
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Wouldn't that be akin to taking Linus' blanket?
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Well, you really shouldn't make any policy changes regarding Cut & Paste procedures until
Lew Rockwell chimes in with his own $.02. He's certainly benefitted the most from the current policy.
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In other words, if *you* don't have something to say, then you can't just cut-and-paste someone elses stuff here
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If Lew Rockwell didn't exist some people wouldn't have much to post??
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I still haven't found out if Jayne sucks and if so do you have to buy her drinks first?
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How do you propose to enforce this if it did become a ban? You mods can barely keep up with the T&A posts.
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quote:
Originally posted by scottmandue
How do you propose to enforce this if it did become a ban? You mods can barely keep up with the T&A posts.
Shouldn't be too hard. One Paster accounts for about 70% of the pasting...and he does it really Fast too...
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