@amirtheawesome1 this story is plagiarized. It appears in many places elsewhere word for word.
@coolkris appears to have plagiarized other content on his blog as well. I have examined several so far and every single one is stolen.
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Thank you, Brandt. I had my doubts and I was actually going through the post when something happened IRL.
So what kind of plagiarism checker are you using?
I'm not using one, this was a manual find :) I was reading posts in COM and the punch line on this story sounded vaguely familiar so I went digging…
hmmm ok thanks man!
We recommend not to use plagiarism checkers. They are often useless tools that can bring false-positive results. They are a poor way of investigating plagiarism.
I am left really confused about how to check for plagarism not even googling sentences here did not work. What is the way to check?
That's what we do. We manually search, checking up chunks of texts in Google search.
Ok, I did that here and nothing showed up. I tried a couple of sentences and chunks like stated but nothing showed up.
They often spin/re-word content of google translate from other languages.
Yeah, I am in contact with the person who found this on reddit and he explained its about changing the nouns and verbs. I guess @dandays discovered this person plagiarizing back in August. Seems @dandays would be a great watcher since he finds this stuff fast as he is one of top engagers on Hive. I appreciate your time on these comments!
Thank you for identifying this issue. It's a very tricky form of plagiarism, and not easy to identify with plagiarism detectors. I can't wait until these detectors become more sophisticated. There is only so much manual checking we can do. @brandt, if you have tips for doing so, please let me know. (I'm on Discord under the same name.) Since I do-manage The Ink Well, I sometimes have a hunch content is not original but the plagiarism checkers do not find a problem.
Just sent you a friend request. At least I think it was you :)
Wait a second. Is there an InkWell discord server?