Plagiarism On Mylot

I trust that you reported the post concerned? Sadly almost daily their are plagiarists here who seem to think that using the work of others is going to earn them their daily bread. How sad What they seem to be unaware of is that their earnings for those plagiarised posts, once deleted, will not go to them but to us. MyLot shares the earnings form deleted posts among active Lotters so I suppose that we could be gratefult ot them too The career of the user who posted on your topic will come to an end once admin arrives. I checked their other posts and they are all of the same 'quality'

As long as there is the potential to earn money, there will always be cheaters trying to earn some quick cash. I have been on myLot for quite a while now (close to 4 years I think) and I have seen quite a few plagiarists lurking about, especially among the older discussions. The modus operandi can differ among different people; for example, some can copy what others wrote (like what you have mentioned), some can just post some random piece of text and copy it to multiple different discussions although obviously the response doesn't make any sense, and some can just take stuff off the internet and just post it like it's their original idea. But whatever it is, these people will get caught eventually, no matter how hard they try to mask their activity. There is a saying in my native country that goes "As smart as a squirrel jumps from tree to tree, eventually it will fall/return to the ground". These cheaters will be caught and banned, as long as the honest ones report them!

I looked through your discussion and I see that you have been told already that this is something to report. I think others have already reported it as well. Honest people last here a long time. Cheaters lose out.

Actually I never seen like copy cut responses here, even in my own discussion I never notice.. Your so restrict to your topic and people responding.. keep it up my friend, mylot need you

If he thinks that he will earning by simply copying and pasting other people responses/comments, I think he is truly misguided. You would have warned him/her to stop or report him to the administration.

I don't understand the purpose of plagiarizing on here anyway....wouldn't the time somebody spent looking for an appropriate post to plagiarize have been double what it would take to write something original? it just seems pointless.... especially for me, when I have a really high typing speed and tons of things to say (LOL)

Sadly this isn't the first time that this has happened. It's happened a few times before. People think that they can cheat the system and get by with it by copying and pasting, or even just repeating themselves on a post. It's sad that they even attempt. I am here to earn but also to have fun, and I know the best way to do that is QUALITY.

I have seen this before too. It is stupid and annoying. One person responded to a discussion right under mine and the last line of my response they copied and pasted. It got removed quickly because multiple people flagged it. I was glad it was handled so fast. They are just cheating themselves in the long run...

I think that is terrible and really a very rude way of treating people. If it was me, if after members explained to that person that what they were doing was wrong and they refused to listen to reason, I would let the rude person get to $9.99 then ban them from the site with a message that said "cheaters never win". I would make for a very horrible admin.

I've reported a couple of posts because of plagiarism in my relatively short period of time being here. One of them was not even done by a newbie; the user was here longer than I was and responded to one of my old discussion also with the same exact response given by other responder. I'm still baffled as to what the motive was for doing that. Was the user just desperate to make the pay out since it was done toward the end of the month? Did the user really think he can get away with that hoping that no one will know? You're right, it's such a waste of time. And a stupid thing to do...

Hmm. I should not be surprised at your disclosure of this act of plagiarism being attempted here, but I am! Despite these attempts, I have faith in the proper workings of the system (and its administrators) and vigilance of the decent members; so that -through joint action- the the work of culprits are eventually exposed, and appropriate actions/punishment will be meted out. Cairalyssa, thanks for the reminders that no operation can be 'declared safe' unless it is effectively monitored, and the violators/culprits are sanctioned.

Is it possible? Whoah! Why i didn't think about that before? Lol.

What a shame. Because MyLot is actually fun, so he's missing out on the fun of responding to some very interesting posts. He'll be kicked out soon, I think.

Good from you cairalyssa, Am too a newbie in mylot. Just less than a week old in mylot but I cannot imagine such a weird act of coping people post and paste. I think there is honour and integrity with genuineness on your creativity. I think we should respect people and copy their post. As you reported his act, lets wait and see response from the administrator. Folks should learn, I cannot do that. If I see a discussion and cannot contribute, I better leave it and go one to another rather than piracy. This my fellow newbie should learn

Hi Cairalyssa, I know who that person is, I think. Another Mylotter had messaged me to inform me that he copied one of my responses. I reported him. There has been a lot of plagerism here lately and I really don't understand why they bother. They always get caught so it is just a huge waste of their time. They could put that same time and effort into having fun on here and make some friends and actually even earn something.

I have noticed several pragiarists on Mylot. Some of them copy something from another website and post it as a discussion or a response and some of them copy the discussions or responses from other members. I reported a response on one of my own discussions. I recognized the response because I had read it on Yahoo answers a couple of weeks before. That member simply copied every single word of the answer on Yahoo answers I haven't noticed members who copied one the other member's responses on my discussion like you experienced, but if it happens I will report it. If we agree with the things that have already been said, we might mention some of same things, but it is wrong to copy to the response word for word.

I've seen users respond to discussions with something confusing and sort of off-topic, and then several months later the same same user posted the exact same response again. It was the weirdest thing! As for plagiarism, it really annoys me because it takes away from the discussion. Plus the users doing it are only doing themselves a disservice because they're going to get banned and lose all their earnings. I'm glad mylot is strictly moderated because it keeps the spammers, scammers, and trolls to a minimum.

Dah...I don't believe it.Plagiarism even on mylot.This mess would follow us everywhere from blogs to articles to even here.These scammers should be thrown out from mylot.I once had my mylot discussion being made into a blog article by some stupid member here.I hate when people copy others stuff for their benefit and earn here.Try reporting it to the mylot staff here.They could help us.

Try to report him to the administrator...