Another tricky situation: internet forums. Someone asks you a question that you cannot completely answer. You find some good answers on an internet forum, from a variety of posters. How do you take all of that information and pass it on? This is a difficult scenario that I have been faced with. There are many people who could answer certain things more thoroughly than I could, and often the best answers are a combination of things you find in forums. When this has been the case, I don't want to send a person on a wild goose chase to get their answer, so I will cut, copy, and paste an answer that is a combination of sources and cite what forums and threads that I obtained the information from. I don't think it is necessary for me to construct an answer when others have already done it better than I could have. What do others think about info found in a forum post--is it intellectual property? What if the poster is using an anonymous moniker?
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