Now the plaigiarists are even stealing comments
@RonElFran (1214)
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
September 17, 2018 10:56am CST
It's not at all unusual for me to find that my articles on HubPages or other sites have been stolen and posted without authorization on another site. It's cost me untold amounts of hours and aggravation to try to get them taken down. I think article thieves are despicable.
But this morning when I ran across the latest example of my writing being plagiarized I almost had to laugh. It wasn't an article of mine that was copied, but a comment I made on another article on HubPages (actually PetHelpful, a HubPages site). I suppose I ought to take it as a compliment - if thieves think even my comments are worth stealing, I must be pretty good, huh?
Even so, I still think article thieves are despicable.
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@1creekgirl (40523)
• United States
17 Sep 18
Isn't that something? Some people will steal anything, but good you can see that as a compliment...almost.
@1creekgirl (40523)
• United States
17 Sep 18
@akalinus I can see how that would make you very aggravated.
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@akalinus (40440)
• United States
17 Sep 18
@1creekgirl It happened more than once. It was on ChatAbout which went out of business years ago. Plagiarists also copied and pasted Wikipedia articles hundreds of times on different pages because they thought they would get paid for each one and no one would ever catch on.
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@JudyEv (325762)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Sep 18
Wow, your comments must be really something! Yes, plagiarists make me sick.
@sweetashoney (3594)
• United States
17 Sep 18
I think when a person steals articles or posts like that its because they are just lazy or dumb. For one, some people don't know how to write a good article. Even when I was in college, I was amazed at how many students couldn't even write a good report.
