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.
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.
Hey, @coolkris, I think it is pretty obvious now that your post is plagiarized. It is very unfortunate. This post will be muted and I hope your content from now on become original as I will be checking it myself in the future and make sure to inform @hivewatchers personally of any future plagiarism.
@amirtheawesome1 this story is plagiarized. It appears in many places elsewhere word for word.
Examples: 1, 2, 3
@coolkris appears to have plagiarized other content on his blog as well. I have examined several so far and every single one is stolen.
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.
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?
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Funny entry. The man should have definitely waited for more opinions.
Haha good one !
Yeah, too bad he didn't credit the original author.
Yea I was dubious if it was plagiarism. Too bad people don’t just try on their own
Hey, @coolkris, I think it is pretty obvious now that your post is plagiarized. It is very unfortunate. This post will be muted and I hope your content from now on become original as I will be checking it myself in the future and make sure to inform @hivewatchers personally of any future plagiarism.
This post will be muted for now, have a nice day.