I find way too many head-smacking moves made in the Google Webmaster Help forums. The latest? A webmaster complaining his site dropped in the rankings, then Google suggesting they only post unique content on their site, then the webmaster saying that their content is unique but others are copying his content. The story is all too familiar but in this case, Google investigated and said that no- you are copying content from others.

Lesson to be learned here? If you are copying content from other sites, do not complain in a Google forum, do not lie in a Google forum and do not look dumb in a Google forum.

Here are the relevant snippets from the thread:

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Webmaster:

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Seriously? You want a human Googler to look at your site after you were penalized, to find out you are lying even more?

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.