| User | Thread poster: Mohd shadab Reposting of Terminology question on other portals. |
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Mohd shadab 
India
Local time: 07:38
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Hi
I would like to know if one can post Terminology question (Question asked by someone else) on other portals to get more opinion and fast response for a particular question and help the asker. I am bit confuse and its ethical ? Please suggest your view.
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writeaway
Local time: 04:08
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Mohd shadab wrote:
Hi
I would like to know if one can post Terminology question (Question asked by someone else) on other portals to get more opinion and fast response for a particular question and help the asker. I am bit confuse and its ethical ? Please suggest your view.
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Quite a few askers themselves post their questions on a variety of portals in addition to asking them via Kudoz. So don't see why it should matter.
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Mohd shadab
India
Local time: 07:38
Member (2008)
English to Tamil
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TOPIC STARTER | | Not by same asker but someone else. | Dec 5, 2011 |
writeaway wrote:
Mohd shadab wrote:
Hi
I would like to know if one can post Terminology question (Question asked by someone else) on other portals to get more opinion and fast response for a particular question and help the asker. I am bit confuse and its ethical ? Please suggest your view.
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Quite a few askers themselves post their questions on a variety of portals in addition to asking them via Kudoz. So don't see why it should matter. |
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but suppose... its not by the same askers but some other person, but motive is only to help him.
Hope its not against site rule and regulation and ethical ?
[Edited at 2011-12-05 10:34 GMT]
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Nikita Kobrin
Lithuania
Local time: 05:08
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English to Russian
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| | Anything goes | Dec 5, 2011 |
When one (i.e. anyone) is looking for an answer for some question he can can use ANY available means and resources.
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philgoddard
United States
Local time: 21:08
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I find it mildly irritating when I Google a phrase someone has asked about, and the first hit I get is the Proz question itself and the second is from something like wordreference.com.
I think it's basic courtesy to say "I have also posted this question at ..." so that people aren't scurrying around looking for answers that have already been found on other sites.
Personally, I wouldn't post a question on a site other than ProZ. If you can't get an answer here, you won't get one anywhere, and the quality of the answers on other sites is often very poor.
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Katalin Horvath McClure
United States
Local time: 22:08
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English to Hungarian
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| | Just an idea - use the Reference function | Dec 5, 2011 |
If you want to help the asker by posting his/her question at a different portal, I think you could do that, as context provided with the question should be non-confidential info.
You could include a link as a Reference comment to the original question on ProZ. That way the asker himself/herself can follow the responses at that other site, and you won't run the risk of getting accused of using somebody else's work to get KudoZ points for yourself.
One issue though, is that you may want to make sure the asker have not posted the question already on those other portals, because you don't want duplication.
Katalin
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Mohd shadab
India
Local time: 07:38
Member (2008)
English to Tamil
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TOPIC STARTER |
Katalin Horvath McClure wrote:
If you want to help the asker by posting his/her question at a different portal, I think you could do that, as context provided with the question should be non-confidential info.
You could include a link as a Reference comment to the original question on ProZ. That way the asker himself/herself can follow the responses at that other site, and you won't run the risk of getting accused of using somebody else's work to get KudoZ points for yourself.
One issue though, is that you may want to make sure the asker have not posted the question already on those other portals, because you don't want duplication.
Katalin |
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Thanks Katalin,
I think this the best solution, better to provide link of original question as reference.
Thanks again.
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