There's this one user, right now he's going by Rockerbob08, he does nothing but plagiarize stories from other sites and edit them so they're about Ashley Massaro (a female wrestler who was only active for a couple years and retired in 2008), and it would really be awesome to have an easy way of reporting his stuff to the moderators. (It would be even awesomer to see him banned, but yeah). I've also seen a couple bestiality threads I couldn't report.
You could report threads here on the forum. To stay "anonymous" you can start a conversation with Friedman (or a moderator) and send them the link of the specific thread.
Good Workaround Trugbild but I think we need a way to do it direct in case we see something and then have trouble finding it again.
OK well here goes nothing. Like I said, this editor can barely write English. He plagiarizes from stories written way above his writing level, and I can find them by google searching for phrases that are obviously beyond his ability to write. http://chyoa.com/story/create-a-wrestler-reboot/thread/time-will-tell-2 Found plagiarized bits from these two stories http://www.freecatfights.com/forums/index.php/topic,15477.0.html http://www.superheroinecentral.com/~wizard/Stories/DrDominator/WWSSK1.htm This guy did a whole series of threads responding to himself. The next part - http://chyoa.com/story/create-a-wrestler-reboot/thread/it-would-appear-so-2 Found bits plagiarized from this - http://www.superheroinecentral.com/~wizard/Stories/DrDominator/Nova1.htm His third post in that thread - http://chyoa.com/story/create-a-wrestler-reboot/thread/how-you-always-battle-odds-divide-and-conquer Plagiarized from http://www.superheroinecentral.com/~wizard/Stories/DrDominator/WWSSK9.htm Fourth post http://chyoa.com/story/create-a-wrestler-reboot/thread/it-would-appear-not - plagiarized from http://www.superheroinecentral.com/~wizard/Stories/DrDominator/WWSSK10.htm I don't want to have to keep going with specific links, though I will if it'll get them deleted, but all of these threads http://chyoa.com/story/create-a-wrestler-reboot/thread/the-numbers-game http://chyoa.com/story/create-a-wrestler-reboot/thread/hard-to-do-when-you-re-in-a-headlock http://chyoa.com/story/create-a-wrestler-reboot/thread/she-s-there-toy-for-now http://chyoa.com/story/create-a-wrestler-reboot/thread/she-can-take-a-lot-of-punishment http://chyoa.com/story/create-a-wrestler-reboot/thread/the-water-stills-for-the-moment-4ca68a86 But like i said, this guy can barely write, you can see what kind of English he has from the titles he gives his threads. If he posts it and it's written decently, it's plagiarized from somewhere even if you can't find the specific place.
I agree about the plagiarism that isn't right. I don't do it and I have been told my writing is bad from time to time I hope I am getting better but I'd like to block a writer cause after reading this one story it totally pissed me off it had good writing no doubt about that but it just sets me off and I'd like to block that writer so I'm not tempted to read it again and this writer hasn't written in more than a year so who knows maybe they just left cause of all the angry comments those stories got. Anyway plagiarism shouldn't be allowed.
Agreed with the comments above with one caveat: I have frequently 'plagiarized' character mannerisms and descriptions when adding to stories so as to keep them consistent, BUT, I always ask permission of the author I am pulling the content from, and re-write if they say I should not do that. THIS small bit of 'plagiarism' I think is not only acceptable but in fact necessary for the kind of writing we do here, and think it would detract form the site if it was rigorously censored.
good point I hadn't thought of that Simon_Silver. Your right I agree with you on that if you have permission than it's a ok but taking something someone else made and making it seem like it is your own story? HELL NO!
So... I know plagiarism was against the rules on Chyoo, because when I'd report this guy there his threads would get deleted. But it's been a couple weeks now and they're still up.
Thanks for your report. I've used http://www.duplichecker.com/comparison and http://www.copyscape.com/compare.php to compare your links above but could not find a significant similarity. Can you give me a concrete example of the sentences or paragraphs, which he is said to have plagiarized?
I forgot about this. OK, so, from the first thread of the guy I linked - http://chyoa.com/story/create-a-wrestler-reboot/thread/time-will-tell-2 As you see, he just changed a few names and descriptions - I bolded the changed parts.
