Comments | stop_plagiarism: Need a little help

wannareadit in stop_plagiarism

Need a little help

Oct 26, 2011 23:09

Hi everybody.
I'm really new to this community and I need your help and yours advices. I found recently on ff.net a Supernatural fic that was not clearly written by the publisher : he or she even admit it.

This is what he/she said in his/her profile : "None of these stories or mine. Other people wrote them. I don't claim ANY of them, okay? I just ( Read more... )

mod: misscam, fandom: supernatural, site: fanfiction.net, medium: fanfiction, 2011

Comments 8

misscam October 29 2011, 23:17:15 UTC

Hey, I'm Cam, I'll be the mod on this case.

I don't suppose you know who the original author is? I'll try to use google-fu, but that doesn't always turn up anything. And given that the story has been published without proper credit - even if the poster does state it isn't his/her work - it is a case we will look at.

mimiheart October 29 2011, 23:22:19 UTC

Google found This

misscam October 29 2011, 23:25:04 UTC

That was fast, I hadn't even fired up Google yet. Thank you very much! I will get in touch with the author right away.

mimiheart October 29 2011, 23:28:12 UTC

I'm curious like that.

Quick research on the page shows that that's indeed the author's page. There's the top page. She's got a huge a/n about it.

Email's at the top of the page.

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nyxelestia October 30 2011, 02:27:36 UTC

For the person who posted this not-story, considering just PM'ing them about alternatives other than posting on FFN? There are plenty of places where she can privately post things and easily be able to read on just about any mobile device, not to mention multiple ways to make eBooks out of fics she can copy and paste, thereby reading them on her own without "publishing" it for others. If the fic was found on AO3 they can already download from there, and if it's from somewhere else, they can use things like ePub Bud to make eBooks of fic (which is something I do often for fics found off AO3, or when the AO3 formatting gets screwed up somehow).

It doesn't seem like malicious intent or anything, just focusing on their own convenience without thought or care for the original authors.

hoshiko_2000 October 30 2011, 15:56:12 UTC

'I don't claim ANY of them, okay? I just need them in this format so I can read them in on my phone.'

Wow, that's a weird one O.o. How about reading them on *YOUR COMPUTER*? I can sort of get why someone would do this (at least in theory), but if you wanted to upload them somewhere you could see them on your phone, why not post them on a private blogger-locked journal or something where just you would see it 0.0?

johnnypenn October 30 2011, 21:48:28 UTC

weird.