Plagiarism on mylot
By Manisha
@ms1864 (6885)
Bangalore, India
September 20, 2016 12:21am CST
Hey, guys!
I just came across a post here on mylot that has been plagiarized. I don't think the person who wrote the original post has noticed it yet.
It is one of those one liner question posts....can't see why someone can't even attempt to write one line by themselves...
Anyways, I wanted to know...how do i let the admin know that the post is plagiarized? I know i can Report it....but there is no option to say WHY i am reporting it.
Any suggestions?
Update: The copied post was deleted.
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31 responses
@moirai (2853)
• Philippines
24 Sep 16
Wow. Plagiarizing a one-liner has to be some special kind of stup.. ... please forgive my language.
Anyway, reporting would be the way to go, though I didn't realize there is no option there to give a reason? I guess, I haven't reported anyone recently so I am not aware how it is.
Glad that it has been deleted. That way, no one would make the mistake of participating in it, only to have their efforts go to waste after it is deleted.
I, for one, spend a lot of time thinking about and writing my posts, so if anyone ever plagiarized it, I would appreciate being informed. So that might be an additional thing you could do aside from reporting - inform the one that was copied so he/she is aware.
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@ms1864 (6885)
• Bangalore, India
24 Sep 16
It's ok, the plagiarized post was deleted in a days time....apparently one line posts are not encouraged anyway. It was just one of the people who don't want to make an effort ...and considering the effort on mylot doesn't even feel like an effort....copying was a silly idea.
@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
29 Sep 16
glad it got dealt with. Such posts should not be welcome on any site like this
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@BelleStarr (61101)
• United States
23 Sep 16
Admin is usually pretty fast at taking care of issues like this.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
24 Sep 16
Once admin sees it, they will know what the issue is I think.
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@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
21 Sep 16
Hopefully since you reported it, they will take care of it. I see a lot of one-liner posts but they are mostly from new mylotters. I'm assuming they just don't know the rules.
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
24 Oct 16
I'm happy the copied post was deleted. Sometimes I will see something someone else wrote on here and get inspired, but I wouldn't dream of copy and pasting something. The fun is in writing down my own words
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@allknowing (137772)
• India
4 Dec 16
I noticed that too where we cannot explain why we report. You can send a message to Admin explaining. . I do it sometimes.
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@Letranknight2015 (52079)
• Philippines
20 Sep 16
This is why I don't make post that has much quality because others will just copy the whole thing.
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@ms1864 (6885)
• Bangalore, India
20 Sep 16
lol...well we do see the topics repeated a lot of the time...but at least if they ADD something to it...write it in their own style...attempt to do something..
but i see what you mean...i i only write lighter topics on mylot... my discussions with research get posted elsewhere.
@CoolPeace (1566)
• Miami, Florida
21 Sep 16
You don't have to plagiarize here all you have to do is write a topic you feel about.
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