Plagiarism is bad, kids. Not to mention stupid when you do it online.

[bironic]

Heads up, Housefic writers: awwsugah has been reposting other people's stories on her MySpace and passing them off as her own. She's got stuff by daasgrrl, cryptictac, maineac, isagel, soundship, evila_elf, genagirl, jaryn_, elynittria, sam_storyteller, and others. (Not me, though. I guess my stuff isn't good enough. Heh.) See cryptictac's post for an in-progress roundup.

ETA: Example, now that the blog has been locked:



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Thank you to thewlisian_afer for the alert.

Comments

[mer-duff.livejournal.com]

Man, I am so naive about things like this. It's because I'm old and unhip. How does this troll friending thing work? Am I encouraging trollops of trolls by just automatically friending people back? I've always just assumed people friend me because they want to read what I post - am I a complete idiot? (The correct answer is usually yes)

I think I need a badge that says "Completely Oblivious."

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps people who are In The Know about the Latest Fandom Slang Terms (which I'm not usually, just like in the real world) need a badge that says "Needs a RL" (an RL?).

A troll is a person who infiltrates a community and deliberately stirs up trouble, usually by acting completely innocent and naive and saying/asking inflammatory things. Then there have been at least two or three troll journals in House fandom where some anonymous jerk created an account, friended hundreds of active community members, and proceeded to either (a) do nothing until they were banned or (b) post a bunch of stupid stuff about how Person A or Person B is so full of him- or herself, etc, also until they were banned. Fun times.

[mer-duff.livejournal.com]

I think I'll wear that oblivious badge proudly. Next stupid question - what's the issue with a)? Because I do a whole lot of nothing (in every aspect of my life).

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Well, it's annoying, for one thing. The troll-friending. I've banned a troll-friending journal or two from my f-list because there was no point to it -- nobody was on the other side reading our journals; they just conducted a friending blitz and disappeared. That name would've stayed in my profile for ever and ever with no purpose at all. It's like the spam of LJ friending.

So all those fics up on your journal are a whole lot of nothing? Heh.

[mer-duff.livejournal.com]

Heh - good point. See what I mean about oblivious? I'm even oblivious to my own work :)

I was thinking of it more along the lines of people friending and then never commenting, which I find odd, but not all that bothersome. I always assumed people who friended me did so to save themselves searching the communities for new stories and if they had empty journals, it was because they didn't have anything to say. It probably took me longer than a year to post a non-fic entry, so that seemed completely normal to me. I was sort of kidding before, but man, I really am naive.

Just got back from a meeting on Vancouver Island about a new multi-disciplinary work we're developing with another company in Victoria. Really cool stuff. Not so cool having to catch the 7am ferry over (though we saw at least five or six pods of orcas en route). I made a day of it and went to the Royal BC Museum and saw the Titanic artifacts exhibit. I think I wrote about the last time I was at the museum in Memoryfest - I walked through a couple of exhibits and it was like I was 12 again.