upvote of appreciation for addressing this.

I'm curious as to your perspective...

I busted someone who'd copy & pasted a chunk of 21 unique tags I'd used at the bottom of one of my stories today. What would your outlook on this be?

From one angle - it's only tags. From another, time & energy was put into crafting those original categories - and buddy just rips 'em for his own use.

I kinda gave him a piece of my mind in the comments. not sure if I was being too harsh and should have just let it slide, taking it as a compliment he wanted to copy me... or if it still is a minor form of plagiarism and is all fair to get a bit pissed off.

I'd appreciate your objective viewpoint on this, to see another perspective on the matter - given your show of valuing integrity with this post about copying images...