Credit Alligator

What is a Credit Alligator?

Let us examine the words credit and alligator. Credit means recognition by name and alligator represents a greedy person. So a Credit Alligator is someone who uses some other people's work and claiming it as their own. In our own little ways we can be credit alligators. By simply not acknowledging the author of a work, be it intentional or not. By not contributing to a project but adding your name to the credits claiming that you did something in the project.

We should all learn not to depend on other people's work just so we could prevent ourselves from exerting effort. We should put ourselves in their shoes and imagine how they would feel if this was done to us. We ought to create our own work. There is no honor in getting praise from something you didn't do. You are only fooling yourself.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation - Herman Melville

sources: Alligators by Tay Vaughan ( http://www.tayvaughan.com/writings/alligators/Alligators93-11.html )