Comments on: What I Learned in Grade School ~ Play Nice ~ Don’t Plagiarize

By: Monkey's Momma

Monkey's Momma — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:01:15 +0000

That is just wrong. To steal your work, pass it off as her own, and THEN have the nerve to respond “Sorry Charlie”. Sorry indeed!

By: Jess @ NBP

Jess @ NBP — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:46:33 +0000

WTG Grandma!! I haven’t yet seen it happen to me but then I’m not a very great writer and have hardly anything to say but I agree with you. I don’t like seeing anywhere. Good to hear that she took it off.

Coming from the Blog Trip!
Jessica

By: Heidi Ashworth

Heidi Ashworth — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:43:12 +0000

Hi, Just FYI, I found you via the Blogamama Road Trip link–as an author who is about to have her first book come out, this is a nightmare I have thought about more than once. Yikes! I am wondering, too, how you found it?

By: Bonnie Sayers (autismfamily)

Bonnie Sayers (autismfamily) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:56:51 +0000

I have had autism organizations and newsletter sendouts copy my stuff. I have sent out several cease and desist letters, two were followd through with and one got nasty calling me names and sending out emails telling people I called her out. She was the director of the org.

I regularly google my name, also have alerts set to my name and use copyscape.

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:25:51 +0000

I’m a plagiarism-hater too.

I’ve actually had my “friends” copy of web site copy verbatim, except to replace my company name with theirs - ultimate in tacky! And as an English Composition professor, I detest getting half-way through a student’s paper only to realize I wasted my precious time evaluating a paper that was piece-mealed from a variety of web sources.

I’ve usually taken a passive approach to resolve stolen content from my website, but might consider your direct approach in the future. Perhaps the only ways to stop plagiarism is to out the offender, so two snaps for your post.

By: April

April — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:27:52 +0000

Problems? You wanna talk about problems? I’ve got you beat, Ms. Elaina. I’m distracted too. I enter contests to try and win prizes for my kids because I’m a single unemployed mom that can’t afford to BUY them stuff. I’m inches away from wanting to die.

But I still don’t steal other people’s writing.

Its not an excuse.

I hope you’ve learned a lesson from being “new to this” and that you’ve realized that the blog community doesn’t take plagiarism too well.

By: Cindi

Cindi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:04:25 +0000

In response to Elaina Rodriquez Stanley.

No Comment.

By: Cindi

Cindi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:51:58 +0000

I appreciate all the comments on my behalf and kind words. If you need the link to check for your own blog posts, its ~ http://copyscape.com/

Thanks. Cindi ~ Moomettesgram

By: Mamaflo

Mamaflo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:37:42 +0000

Plagiarism, copyright materials are just fancy terms for what it really is…….CHEATING & STEALING!
Most of the time Plagiarism is sheer stupidity and not actually CHEATING but the end result is the same - you took something that didn\’t belong to you, SHAME ON YOU!!!!!

Should I ever (see me shying away) do something like this, I promise it will be done out of sheer stupidity and please call me on the mat cause I don\’t want to steal anything from anyone.

I\’m sorry this happened to you.

By: Channah @ Get a Grip, Mom!

Channah @ Get a Grip, Mom! — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:32:58 +0000

Just an aside - how did you happen to find her copied post? How do we, as bloggers, find out if someone has plagiarized us?