we've gone thru this quite a bit.......Joe has sort of semi-officially said that anything over **ONE SCREENFULL** of C&P text is fair game for being edited. The rule is not enforced hard & fast, but those who do heavy C&P ought to be on notice that it 'might' be.....

I almost never read huge C&P (that's COPY & paste, not cut)...but if the subject is relevant & interesting, I will go read it at the source...and my interest is more easily stimulated if YOU say something in synopsis, along with a few sentences of text...much like an abstract of a paper.

There oughta be a C&P version of "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.", but I can't think of it.