Sunita & Trina - thanks for bringing this matter to a focused attention.
Aarti, Sareeta, Ginak et al - I'm not exactly a silent reader - I tend to stay within the Atul Thread as a general rule, for no reason other than that which you are obviously and, quote rightly, affronted by. There is far too much repetition of ideas and posts on this forum, despite the pleas and warnings of the Dev. Team. I look forward to reading any post of yours because it is so beautifully and so creatively bringing forth the ideas that are prevalent in my mind too. So, even as a reader of your posts, it does take me aback when seeing a thousand other posts claiming the same ideas, the same interpretations as their own. A forum like this is for expressing one's opinion - and it is strangely disappointing to see people having the same "opinion" as someone who has previously expressed it, and so beautifully. Sometimes a scene is interpreted by many people in the same way, yet the way that the interpretation is articulated MUST always differ; after all, there is an opinion for every person on this planet, and no two snowflakes are exactly the same.
So, I support your plea and position and urge people to be CREATIVE - creativity seems to be fast disappearing from this forum and from IF in general...plagarism is a crime, and even if people can't take that seriously, they should at least feel even a hint of shame that the ideas they convey are not in any way their own. Intellectually, if not morally, they should feel embarrassed.