poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on BoatFuckerPoetandKnowit by bigbigdog.

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.20 Sep 2002

I don't particularly want to see the poeme reinstated, but surely plagiarism involves trying to pass off someone else's work as your own, which he clearly isn't doing. I'd more call it "mocking someone through the medium of replacing one line in their poeme with an obscenity". If he'd posted the exact same thing in a comment on the original, would you call it plagiarism?