Plagiarising Sorry to have to tell you all this ..

Atleast I wasn't the only person to see that...phew....thought I was going mad

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Ha. I am just surprised noone else has mentioned it. It was the maturity (being 11yo) and differing styles that made me suspicious.

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Really? No way I enjoyed his stuff as well no way bummer ð that's just stupid

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@peterba indeed

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@peterba Huh! Eatonlynch, dirty pool old man! Thanks for the heads up ð

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@aleishagayle20 agreed.

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@leelee101 ha. No worries. It's a good app so shouldn't be spoiled by plagiarism !

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Oh, I didn't know. I thought the style of writing was fairly consistent.

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So I just got Knocked off rank 2 by plagiarism. If he's copied my stuff... Shits gonna go down. Nuff said

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Oh....

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I honestly couldn't care less ð

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@AlexMurray it's stories that are from other peoples blogs etc that he's stolen. Apparently, he's been given a warning now, let's give him a chance to start using his own words. If he referenced these blogs then that would be fine. It's the taking credit that any writer

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@peterba well done for noticing thou ðððððð

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cont... Knows is out of order.

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@glensaggs haha fair enough!

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Oh no. I liked (what I thought to be) his stuff ð.

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Guys stop being so mean! At least say what you have to say in a nicer way or don't say it at all!! I'm sure you wouldn't like reading comments like that about yourself!! Would you? No u wouldn't!!!!!

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@sguga I don't think I'm being mean? I've said we should give him a chance to start using his own stuff. I think the main consensus is we wouldn't like our stuff plagiarised and people using this as a game (number of followers and rankings) are missing the point of having Opuss to share our words.

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Lol @peterba I dont mean all of you are being that mean its just some of these guys who are!!!!

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@peterba Couldn't agree more & it's bang out of order. I don't mind giving him/her a second chance with his own stuff, but all existing content should be removed & he/she made to start again. I doubt it's the last instance of this nature we'll see however....Guess they're only fooling themselves in the end anyway ð

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@Fly10 I also doubt it's the first (although perhaps the first to have got so high in the ranking chart.) We should have people to seek plagiarisers out an make sure it doesn't happen.

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@Cabernax Like "Plagiarism Police"??

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@eatonlynch contacted me and asked me to close his account which I have reluctantly done. I do believe he deserved a second chance but I guess being so publicly caught out was a bit much for the poor young lad to cope with. I hope he returns as the work that was his own brought a smile to this old gits face. I consider this small drama over and the matter closed.

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@TommyWalsh I suppose so. But police sounds a bit strong. More like the community wardens of the plagiarism world, I suppose. To make sure people are picked up on it but not so humiliated as this poor kid has been. As Seamonster said, it was a bit too much for someone so young.

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@Seamonster You might like to know that there is a "hole" in the ranking charts now @eatonlynch is now gone. Assumedly it still thinks he's there and still classes @AlexMurray as #3 when he should now be #2.

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@Cabernax Ha "Community Wardens Of The Plagiarism World" It sounds so formal ð¹

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@Cabernax that will fix itself auto-magically in the night. Data pixies come and tidy up "holes". But thanks for mentioning it. ð

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@Seamonster You're welcome.

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@TommyWalsh yeah, it does.

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@Seamonster just a quick question. Are there moderators (human/cyber) on this app?

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@AlexMurray we have keyword monitoring much the same as echelon and rely on the community to also flag issues/inappropriateness. On a budget of zero that's the best we can afford.

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@Seamonster I think you guys do amazing

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thanks @redfae, we think you guys do ð

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@Seamonster you guys are the bestest...end of!

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I thought it was obvious he was plagiarising work from the Internet. That didn't bother me so much as the fact that was he was posting was so age inappropriate. He was 11 years of age and was posting jokes and stories full of swearing and sex. I realise a lot of that is bad parenting, but @seamonster I really think somehow there needs to be someway to either separate 18+ stuff, or have some sort of 13+ rule like Facebook.

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@Nom I think that would be disastrous. Stephen Fry did a tv programme about 6 months back called Planet Word. In one episode he said that swear words are just as much a part of our language as anything else. Perhaps, if a younger individual goes on this, there should be parental guidelines, but no actual restrictions.

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@Cabernax I'm not saying stop the swearing, I am saying I find it offensive when a child is posting stuff he should be shocked by.

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This explains why I'm ranked 773 instead of 772 !

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