RE: Fighting plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty with proper citations
I don't know if I speak for all of steemstem but for myself, if a post is talking about a specific instance of something, I would prefer if it didn't reference general stuff.
What I mean here is if they were writing on a specific protein and have a brief explanation of how proteins are coded, I wouldn't care if they had a source for DNA, RNA, amino acids and like all of the general more common knowledge expected that may be present as, with blogs, we are not as strict as actual scientific papers. Though it won't hurt a blog to be more thorough (it can hurt it if it isn't thorough enough)
Especially when comparing to some of the professional science blogs (IFLS, phys.org, etc) where they may have one or two references for a post and have the post contain tons of things not present in the source (that is if they even cite sources, there are a few blogs by IFLS that don't even do that)
However, in spite of everything I stated in this comment, I agree with you. Sourcing stuff/info is extremely important.
Yes I agree that with certain fundamental concepts you can be lenient with referencing. But I do think that if you get to the main theme/material of your post you should use proper referencing.
If I am writing a paper for a specialist audience then of course I don't have to give citations for knowledge that is considered completely standard. But I think that most of the work on Steemit is aimed at a more general audience so even certain basic things could use some citation.
I will adapt the post a bit based on your comment.
Something interesting to ponder is the content presented in the recent post by @justtryme90 about the actual audience reached by science blogs versus the intended audience. I mean yes I do completely agree that good referencing is, to some extent, required (and proper referencing makes a blog go from being like a 6 in sexiness to a 9 so fast, if that makes sense)
Thanks. I will check that post out :o)
I don't think that you will really notice much of referencing if it is done properly. Whenever a fact is presented you just put a number in square brackets. I am not sure if that harms the sexiness of a post.
What I think is most harmful for sexiness is when you present all the details behind a result. But for most fields you can write a result driven sexy post without details.
No the numbers in square brackets don't take away from sexiness, what does though is when someone has a link that goes nowhere and so it would just reload the page if clicked. Just my opinion though on that one!
Yeah. I agree :o)