JGWeissman comments on Open Thread: March 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 07 March 2010 02:39:54AM 0 points [-]

Voted up, but I would say the purpose is to do both, to help convince and help further investigation, and more, such as to give credit to the source. Citations benifet the reader, the quoter, and the source.

I definitely agree that willingness to forgo your own benifet as the quoter does not justify ignoring the benifets to the others involved.

Comment author: RobinZ 07 March 2010 08:08:00PM 0 points [-]

You're right, of course.