A Bit Of tmail Interaction With Our Resident Cut-And-Paste Artist
ENNEMVEE
THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISIT SIR
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ME
Sir, are you aware that when you lift entire articles from other sites, that you are stealing and therefore breaking copyright laws? I do not think t-Blog is intended for such abuse. This is a community, largely a good group of folk. Why don't you try doing this a different way?
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ENNEMVEE
Thank you for writing,friend.I do never get copyrighted materialsThere are so much free materials available.That apart i get so many mails appreciating my work.I started bloging here only on 17th september 2008.I have 5862[still counting] visitors.You may check the list of hot blogers too..regards.[However I consider your advice quite relevant.shortly you will see that i am changed..thanks again]
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ME
A couple of times I have looked through your articles, then gone to the wikipedia site. It is verbatim, a direct copy-and-paste, even with the credits at the end.
This is plagiarizing, pure and simple. There are laws against such. Of course you get hits. Someone does a google or yahoo search, and is directed to your site. And, since you have lifted material, without giving credit to the source, this person who visits your site may even think you are the author.
Rarely, but a few times, I have had fellow bloggers to steal what I have written and pretend it to be their own. I feel insulted and injured when this happens. I do not pretend to be a polished or published author, and I do not make my living with this venue. If I did, and if you were to take my material the way you are so cavalier to do so with other people's material, then I would likely seek some kind of legal action.
Maybe you are a 14-year-old who has just discovered blogging and wikipedia, and you are excited about all the attention of these 5862 hits (many are bots, from places like google and yahoo, which of course cannot distinguish stolen from legitimate material). Maybe you are older, but simply have no concern for ethical standards. I'd like to think the former, not the latter, about you.
Sit down and write something. Think about it, let it come from your heart, let it be genuine. It may not be a gramatically correct as the stuff you've been lifting from others, but it would likely be a more interesting read for those in the t-Blog community.
Take it or leave it. that's what I think. And, really, writing what you think is what blogging ought to be about.
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ENNEMVEE
YOU MAY READ MY NEW POST 'WHO IS JESUS'..AND STOP FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH ME..THANKS
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PD
I’m pretty sure Jesus was not a thief.
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posted by:
surrogate (
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post date:
10.27.08 (8:10 am)
I don't think Jesus ever stole even an apple. Wait, make that a fig.
posted by:
OldSchool (
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post date:
10.27.08 (8:13 am)
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.
posted by:
PastorDave (
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post date:
10.27.08 (8:33 am)
Reply to: surrogate
He wore fig leaves. No...that was Adam. But, weren't Jesus and Adam the same person? No... that's Mormon theology. Sometimes I get confused.
posted by:
PastorDave (
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post date:
10.27.08 (8:34 am)
Reply to: OldSchool
I'm just a bit irritated with how this guy clogs up t-Blurt with all this stolen material. I know these people come and go within a few weeks. But it's Monday, I'm tired, and looking for a fight. Sounds real "Christian", doesn't it?
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Intricategirl (
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post date:
10.27.08 (10:35 am)
Ahh, but it will bite him in the end. See, Google (and many other search engines) penalize for what they call duplicate content. See, search engines go throughout the internet all day long, and when they encounter something that has been copied, it sends up a red flag. For good reason- Google gets to tout that it can find a hundred thousand different pages that talk about "soup". But if 99,999 are all the same exact article, then Google suffers (along with the rest of the internet). So, they apply a penalty. The page rank will be non-existent in many cases, and the pages that copy will end up somewhere near the bottom of those results. Which means nobody will visit them. I know that Google even frowns upon people copying their own work elsewhere on the web.
Now, I'm not a Google expert, but I think it's savvy enough to say, "Okay, we've got this posted at Wikipedia, and we've got it posted at some little backwater blog hosted on Tblog that's only had 5000 hits. I'm betting that Wikipedia didn't copy from that, so the Tblog one gets the penalty." Perhaps a Google expert will set us straight on whether the software can make this determination, but with as much money as they've spent developing it, I bet it's smart enough to make the distinction.
Finally, my advice would be- don't confuse hits with visitors, or visitors with readers. I have done and DO this for a living, and people who copy me are fair game for evisceration.
posted by:
rosietulips (
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post date:
10.27.08 (10:41 am)
This person has tmailed me a few times to read topics on his/her blog in response to my posts, and whenever I go there, the blog entry never seems relevant!
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PastorDave (
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post date:
10.27.08 (10:57 am)
Reply to: rosietulips
Apparently he makes a full-time occupation of cutting, pasting, and posting on t-blog without even bothering to read the material. How sad. And then he goes around to other blogs, like yours, and without bothering to read your original material he has the audacity to ask you to visit his blog. It's all highly irritating.
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PastorDave (
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post date:
10.27.08 (11:00 am)
Reply to: Intricategirl
I sure hope you are right, that these search engines are smart enough to sniff out a fraudulent blogger and cut him out of the loop. Thanks. Once again, you prove yourself a good bit smarter than the rest of us peon, recreational bloggers!
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Intricategirl (
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post date:
10.27.08 (11:15 am)
Reply to: PastorDave
Bah! There are no peon bloggers. If you're producing original content, you're providing a unique opportunity for learning and interaction on a global level. The size or purpose of the blog is irrelevant. If you're copying though, well, you're no better than a Xerox machine.
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PastorDave (
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post date:
10.27.08 (11:24 am)
Reply to: Intricategirl
"...no better than a Xerox machine." I'll file that one. It will make a nice smarty-pants comment, sometime, somewhere!
posted by:
bawdy (
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post date:
10.27.08 (12:52 pm)
Jealous because he hasn't cut and pasted from your blog yet? heh
posted by:
auntconi (
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10.27.08 (9:58 pm)
Reply to: bawdy
Nah, bawdy ~ I'm sure that isn't it!
~ but, on the other hand ...hmmm
:)
posted by:
auntconi (
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post date:
10.27.08 (9:59 pm)
Reply to: PastorDave
Thanks, PD !!!
~ and Intricagegirl ~ your info is enlightening.
~ we can ALL learn something every day!
All the best to real true 'tbloggers' around here!
((hugs))
posted by:
squirrelzone (
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post date:
10.28.08 (10:24 am)
I have days like that too were I'm just looking for a fight just to realise that there's something in my life that I'm avoiding and I feel an urge to direct my energery at anything other then whats really eating at me. But, then again there is something refreshing about verbally beating somebody up.
