I think I saw someone plagiarising on Ciao!

No..Ciao's guidelines states you should structure your review around your OWN experience when writing a review for a product.If you're friend owns this product then they need to write a review about it. (please take the time to read "guidelines for writing a review" at Ciao) It might save you from possibly getting banned . I have seen people get banned left and right for constantly breaking the rules. Ciao is a great place to earn extra money at but yet they are very strict with there rules.

You wrote that it is not too hard to write a honest review about a product you use... I think there you do not have to write all reviews about products you have used. You may write about products which you know also or someone of your friends knows or uses. Am I right?

It is really up to the company to police the cheaters. They should have checks in place to catch them. Same with here, but here they have a little + - ! so you can rate the posts and report abusers as the administration cannot be everywhere and they ask you to report rules abuses. Unfortunately the cheaters make it bad for the rest of us, especially when the rewards amount go down or the website is cheated out of existence.

I agree with you. I also saw such a member in Ciao who in wrote about 10 reviews in 30 minutes. But it is non of my business, it is completeley up to ciao. I only wrote him my private message that not to do like that. And that is all. I think this way of warning is better.

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Thanks for your comment and suggestion, I just feel bad because I know the person who wrote the ORIGINAL article (if I'm correct - I have to find and check that magazine again or see if it's available online). I'm hoping Ciao will catch on to this person soon, otherwise I don't think I'm a good friend (to the guy who may have been the original victim) if I don't tell him. Anyway, the best case scenario would be if I'm wrong and this ciao member didn't plagiarize, so I don't have to think about it.

I agree, sometimes the administration needs help. If the person is fraudulently submitting reviews and taking more than a fair share of revenues, it will detract from the pool of monies and rewards available to the honest submitters.

I agree. To build a strong case you should have an evidence and I think, it should be your friends whose gonna be doing that since you mentioned that he is the author of the original work In that way, he can show the admin the proofs of copyright and written certification from the publisher/editor from where it was first published. However, what if the guy asked for "permission" from the copyright owner and then you "reacted" without further investigation? (In my country there is a term called "acquisition".) In that way, you can be sure that you will be backfired. Anyhow I don't know how the terms and conditions are in ciao but in blogging as well, tons of "re-posts" are done and it's really hard to police this stuff because of some legal loopholes as challenged by emerging technologies. I guess you are a very critical reader and that's good. I'm a writer myself and personally, I don't make issues if my work is stolen for this purpose... as an Artist, I don't mind sharing but it would be better if they asked for permission because the credibility of the original writer may be threatened in the long run. It's people like you who give justice to us in an academic perspective. The admin seems to be efficient enough as mentioned by others so the alleged plagiarist will have a dose of his own medicine. We could not also deny the fact that some systems are vulnerable and are encouraging this practices too in the quest for content and marketing strategy- these are just theories yet to be investigated.