Comments | liz_marcs: Jesus Christ. Caught Plagiarizing. Again.

liz_marcs

Jesus Christ. Caught Plagiarizing. Again.

Feb 28, 2010 17:34

How many of you out there remember Ozmandayus, the Buffy/Xander and sometime Faith/Xander writer who got caught plagiarizing from fics in the X-Files to write his smut? He was also caught doing the same in Smallville, Dark Angel, and Power Rangers fandoms.Remember how he apologized, dropped off the radar for a while, changed his name to Shawn, and ( Read more... )

Comments 34

nwhepcat February 28 2010, 22:36:47 UTC

I just saw her Twitter. She wants him off NOW, and said to give you a holler.

HOW DOES HE THINK HE CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS?!

liz_marcs February 28 2010, 22:38:01 UTC

Tell her that I will promptly nuke all of this stories.

AND I QUOTE: nwhepcat February 28 2010, 22:38:31 UTC

(I wan't him off my site now. And i won't be able to do it myself for another 15 hrs)

Re: AND I QUOTE: liz_marcs February 28 2010, 22:47:25 UTC

Tell her that I'm promptly nuking his stories.

And I've sent him an email that I'll post as a PEE-ESS on my entry.

Thanks for playing Paul Revere on this one. :-)

Re: AND I QUOTE: liz_marcs February 28 2010, 23:07:12 UTC

Please send her a link to my post.

That way, she'll have a record that his stories are deleted, his account is locked, and the email I sent him.

Thanks so much for your help!

Re: AND I QUOTE: nwhepcat February 28 2010, 23:26:23 UTC

Sent! Glad to be of assistance while otherwise languishing on sickbed.

Sheesh unbelievable.

mpoetess February 28 2010, 22:48:38 UTC

Oh for. Why. Would. You. Do. That. I mean granted I don't know why anyone would deliberately plagiarize to begin with, but after getting caught and supposedly being sorry about it?

liz_marcs February 28 2010, 23:11:39 UTC

Worse, he did it less than SIX MONTHS after that apology.

He's been nuked from INAP, and I sent him a very firmly worded email telling him way.

I'm positively livid right now.

deannawol February 28 2010, 22:56:28 UTC

Wow that boy is DUMB! What a moron. I remember his huge apology post on some of the newsgroups that I read. Wow. What an a$$wad!

liz_marcs February 28 2010, 23:12:06 UTC

Amen.

He's been sumarily nuked from INAP as a result.

He's not welcome back.

smhwpf February 28 2010, 23:05:02 UTC

Like a dog returning to its vomit.

I once had a student who I caught plagiarising for an essay. One of the obvious sort of cases where the language is the sort of thing you don't see undergrads using, and where a quick Google easily finds the website he got it from.

Next year, when he was retaking the class, I'd set an essay that was on the same general topic, though a different question - and not only did he plagiarise again, he plagiarised from the same website.

He'd also plagiarised for another class, but luckily for him this was judged as two second offences rather than a third which would have got him automatically kicked off his degree. Didn't take him long to flunk enough classes to get kicked off anyway (which believe me at my Uni was a pretty hard thing to do.)

Moral of the story - people who are not only dumb enough that they need to plagiarise, but dumb enough that they get caught at it, are generally really, really dumb.

Well, I hope this guy gets thoroughly nuked from all the relevant sites as soon as can be managed.

liz_marcs February 28 2010, 23:20:58 UTC

He's definitely off INAP, permanently if it can be done.

I had a sneaking suspicion that he'd do it again, but just be smarter about it. Frankly, I think everyone involved with INAP did, too.

I hate that we were right. Not surprised, really, but I do hate it.

The only good thing about this is that I don't think Shawn is popular enough any more that this business will cause the level of wank it did the first go-round of this.