Due to my first pick being a plagiarist, I am withdrawing from this weeks challenge. My apologies for those who went and upvoted based on my recommendation.
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Due to my first pick being a plagiarist, I am withdrawing from this weeks challenge. My apologies for those who went and upvoted based on my recommendation.
Aww @practicalthought, please consider re-entering. No one sees this as a reflection on you, believe me. Like you, I trust that people are being honest here, and it's so disappointing when we see otherwise. Your entries are wonderful and I seriously hope you reconsider. I know I can speak for the entire contest "crew" with my words :)
Please don't make me hound you...because I will :)
I do. I spent hours finding these people. I was even suspicious of this persons posts, but after combing through their previous posts I saw no signs of Cheetah declaring their content theft. When I put these posts forward, I am vouching to others for these people. This means a big deal to me, as when I say something I want those who know me to know that things are what I say.
It occurs to me that there is another way I can serve this awesome challenge. That is by going through the other submissions and upvoting those posts I agree are great, overlooked posts. Because I believe in this project, that I will do as it will add more power to what is being done here. Look at it this way. On my own submission, I spent a total of 6 votes before even going to look at the other submissions. On top of this, several votes were cast by others who trusted me that could have been better spent elsewhere (like on other submissions). By conservative estimates, this could have been ten upvotes solidifying the other submissions.
I am going to write a post on all of this later (the costs of plagiarizing on a community) once I have collected enough of my rewards today to try something out. Thank you for the kind words, and hoping I made sense with how I am seeing this enough so you wont
Just an FYI, one of the ways I spot a stolen content post is something that looks so well written it might be professionally written is to use google search.
I take a sentence that looks like it hasn't been "spun" (key words changed to avoid detection) is to put it into Google search with quotes around it. If it comes back with any matches I look at them and see. You can also search by photo in the images tab of google and this will find most stolen content real fast. Just right click on a photo from a post and get the photo location info and paste that into google and it will tell you what pages that photo is on.
Maybe I should make a post about this topic as it's one that is hard to see sometimes.
Heck look at this post
This jackass took my comment from here and posted it as his own post. If @erodedthoughts hadn't pointed it out to me there is no way I would have ever known about the theft and he would have probably gotten away with it. Instead I looked at each of his posts and everything is stolen content and removed all rewards from him.
Anyways in the end there is no question that stolen content will end up entered into the contest. Some is so well "spun" that you can't find it easily and others just doesn't look stolen so you wouldn't even think to check.
you will miss them once in awhile . I do and the amount of time it takes to figure it out is to time consuming .By no means are they a reflection of you . Your efforts are noticed and appreciated by many .
Thank you for your kind words. Last night and maybe even a little this morning my emotions were all over the place as I tried to hide from my embarrassment with anger.
Please don't feel bad. I have found it to be difficult to detect plagiarism. I am still new here and also, I am geek and a nerd and in my real life, I have to trust people at face value and often been taken advantage of or "stabbed in the back" for not digging deeper than what it appears.
So, it is doubly difficult to find the borderline and to not fall victim of plagiarism as some are really good at it and I am not good at detecting them.
This one I am surprised Cheetah didn't catch. It appeared that it was all copied word for word from the little bit I looked over once it was pointed out to me.
I can say I limit people a lot in real life. I got burned a lot too when I was young, and perhaps go to far at times in how little rope I give to others. Thanks for the kind words.
I completely understand because truthfully, I'd be feeling the same way, even though I know it's not really 'rational', if you know what I mean. I think your alternative plan is a good one; we could always use more people noticing the quality posts out there!
I was just reading through the comments from our contest team to you, and I must say that it makes my heart smile that everyone rallied to your defence :)
Waiting on a change.
The Bounty is paid directly and automatically. But other rewards can be assigned as you want. 1 SBI can't be split, but you can pick who you want it assigned to if you win. Just let me know if that is what you want to do in advance and I'll make note of it.
@practicalthought please don't withdraw. This happens each week to someone, actually to more then 1 person. It's just something that happens when you are out there looking for lower rep members content.
You still have a couple days to find someone new to replace that one with. Might consider the intro tag and find a truly brand new member.