Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-24859393-20160728165604/@comment-26884760-20160730212358

plagiarism is the act of taking other people's work and claiming it as your own : like when someone writes a book and you take that book and claim you wrote it.. the practice is seen as very offensive and in some places it is even illegal (copyright infringement, "bootlegging" etc..).. basically plagiarism is stealing pictures or text from other sites and putting them on this one without creditting the original source.

If you take a picture you credit the artist, if you don't then it is often not legal as the artist didn't give permission to use - if you claim the picture is your own then it is "art theft" (another kind of plagiarism).

TLDR: plagiarism = stealing other people's ideas / work, then claiming it as your own ideas / work.