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royalpurple
4/11/2008 1:09 am

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You wouldn't believe it. But someone had just copied en toto my previous post I Look Forward To Tomorrow. The guy omitted the first two words of the title and made it like it was entirely his own.

He even commented on my post. As a gracious host, i visited his blog and imagine my surprise when his real first blog was MY POST! He posted it April 11, 2008 at 3:11pm and i posted mine at 10:44 am.

This couldn't be real, i told myself. I went to the main blog and there in the recently posted blogs, I saw his entry. I clicked it and WHAM! The screen told me, the member has deleted the post. Apparently, this guy was still online and maybe he realized he has gone too far with my post and deleted his entry which he COPIED from me.

However, i felt violated. So i sent him an email and advised him to never again copy someone's blog. Should he need to, at least he should have the decency to give credit to the author and not pass it as his own. Besides, the particular post i was referring to was too personal that it is awkward for him to copy it.

So anyway, he has a new entry now which i'm not sure if it's his original work. The one he copied from me has been deleted, or was it just hidden?


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bellezia
13111 posts

4/11/2008 1:30 am

i notice that but now its member deleted post. Just like my blog before someone copy it same title and words.

smile and be happy always

_jenkins_
2 posts 

4/11/2008 1:33 am

Jeez' how low can you get.
good job royalpurple.

the posse is outside, lets go get 'em!

eimee
(pamela eimee )
13434 posts 

4/11/2008 1:34 am

lol, whos this sis? *hung2 lang* lol

if you worry, you didnt pray, if you pray dont worry
Eimee

maverick595
493 posts 

4/11/2008 1:46 am

any twin of yours you haven't told us about?

anyway, thats unfair, hitting below the belt, cheating, unsportsmanlike, technical foul, flagrant foul, trespassing, stealing, murder...murder?

just eliciting a little smile...hi hi

take care now.

Flibberdigibit
454 posts 

4/11/2008 1:51 am

I heard something like this before...

gorgeous_asian2
694 posts 

4/11/2008 2:08 am

oh wow.. didnt know that
could really happen..
well, it does tho..

take care..

cr3m3pi3l0v3r
48 posts 

4/11/2008 2:29 am

Copying someone's blog is definitely pretty low, but copying something personal like that, except in a tangential response, is just plain weird.

fairyland_
179 posts 

4/11/2008 2:40 am

agree with gorgeous_asian2...

danfar
171 posts 

4/11/2008 3:18 am

hay naku ..you should have make buhos to his face a glass of h20 with matching dialogue ......."you're nothing but a second rate trying hard copy cat "

patawa lang pow...

MunchkinMatron2
7266 posts 

4/11/2008 3:57 am

OMG, si Cherie Gil is in your blog!!!!

And Gabby Concepcion is back!

Seriously, this is irritating. But part of me thinks, how much of what we wrote here is really protected? For all we know what we've written on this site has already been lifted and pasted elsewhere on the net. We can easily see if someone is stupid enough to copy something from here and actually publish it here. But what about elsewhere?

How much of us is out there without us knowing it?

I'm dyslexic. I scream Ho Dog instead of Oh God in the throes of passion.

sunlover1950
3190 posts 

4/11/2008 4:56 am

Well, besides agreeing with what the bloggers above me said, I think that if a person doesn't have any ideas/notions of his own to express or support, his/hers presence here is meaningless.

Keep love in your heart !
SL

blackshilo
308 posts 

4/11/2008 6:16 am

I posted a post,then after I had finished went to look at it,found nearly the exact same post by someone else,I deleted mine as I didn't want someone to think I had copied someone's post,mine is hidden,but I will post it later on,don't want anyone thinking I'm stealing their ideas...they hadn't copied mine...just the same subject...how spooky.....

In speaking well of others,you speak well of yourself

jiffyblue

4/11/2008 7:11 am

This has happened before. Ari, Mistytraveller and Agingone had posts of theirs copied and posted on other's blogs. Someone is playing games around here.

jiffyblue

potterspal3

4/11/2008 7:16 am

That is actually so sad......that there are people out there with no thoughts of their own!!!

beta34
5992 posts

4/11/2008 11:34 am

why is that when this kind of stuff happens we avoid naming the member?

beta34
5992 posts

4/11/2008 11:44 am

I'm here wondering about the way the time is stamped in FF. Yes, because there is the time shift, right? I see my posts with my local time stamp (e.g. the last comment I've made here is marked as 9:34pm). I see no post of yours on April 9th at 10:44am, but one at 5:16am and other at 6:13am. Today April 11th you post at 5:44am and 11:09am. Interesting

toneboney
3479 posts 

4/11/2008 1:03 pm

Yep Got to agree, there are some strange people out there.
Tone.

Hold my thingy, and I'll love you forever more.

Mistytraveller
8220 posts 

4/11/2008 6:34 pm

This has happened before...someone copied my post about Remembrance Day... the only way to deal with this is to create one holy mother of a stink....let people who know who copied your post... tell FF...phone them... etc...

I'm wondering who did this to you. There is a person on this site who routinely copies and pastes other people's poetry. It's theft. I'm wondering if it's the same person?

Wishing you happiness

Misty

macute_lei
73 posts 

4/11/2008 8:58 pm

hala!hala!hala! care to share the impostor? assassin is my middle name, sis Lei

melmac
493 posts 

4/11/2008 9:13 pm

hi my friend its the melodymac
have agreat weekend and lots of love

straight from the heart

yngathrtguy
2360 posts 

4/11/2008 11:55 pm

Off to the bloggy dungeon they must go! There are those around here who just can't think for themselves or just don't care. Very rude for this person to copy your personal post and make it theirs. We should put these people on a list of some kind, unless the post has been given permission by another blogger to use.

If you can't convince them, confuse them!

WonderWiggle
578 posts 

4/12/2008 8:56 am

I havnt got that problem anybody who copies my work and claim it as thier own is putting themselves at risk at being locked up in a lunatic assylum, im lucky i get day release.

melmac
493 posts 

4/12/2008 10:56 am

stealing doesn't matter what is the same way it is spelt
and if someone stole your post it is saying something about the individual, however you did will with a warning therefore I dont think it will happen again whoever it was

have a great weekend again my friend

straight from the heart

royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:07 pm

    Quoting bellezia:
    i notice that but now its member deleted post. Just like my blog before someone copy it same title and words.
I know. We were the first two people who visited his blog and i saw your comment in his place

At least you backed my claim. have a nice sunday belle!


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:09 pm

    Quoting _jenkins_:
    Jeez' how low can you get.
    good job royalpurple.

    the posse is outside, lets go get 'em!
yep, they're thieves.
No sane ideas of their own. thanx for dropping by


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:10 pm

    Quoting eimee:
    lol, whos this sis? *hung2 lang* lol
sister, you can ask belle.
she knows. Have a great Sunday!


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:12 pm

    Quoting maverick595:
    any twin of yours you haven't told us about?

    anyway, thats unfair, hitting below the belt, cheating, unsportsmanlike, technical foul, flagrant foul, trespassing, stealing, murder...murder?

    just eliciting a little smile...hi hi

    take care now.
There you go! litany of a typical coach. LOL

Sir, yes, sir! What's to be our strategy now, huh?


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:14 pm

happens all the time in FF, flib.

The difference is that, almost all posts that have
been copied are poems. BUt as you can see, mine
is a personal experience. It's weird, isn't it?


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:15 pm

    Quoting gorgeous_asian2:
    oh wow.. didnt know that
    could really happen..
    well, it does tho..

    take care..
Hi daph!

the nerve of some people.


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:17 pm

    Quoting cr3m3pi3l0v3r:
    Copying someone's blog is definitely pretty low, but copying something personal like that, except in a tangential response, is just plain weird.
I agree, pal. Thanx for being on my side

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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:19 pm

Thanx for emphatizing, fairyland

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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:20 pm

    Quoting danfar:
    hay naku ..you should have make buhos to his face a glass of h20 with matching dialogue ......."you're nothing but a second rate trying hard copy cat "

    patawa lang pow...
LOL, Far!

With matching sampal no?


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:28 pm

    Quoting MunchkinMatron2:
    OMG, si Cherie Gil is in your blog!!!!

    And Gabby Concepcion is back!

    Seriously, this is irritating. But part of me thinks, how much of what we wrote here is really protected? For all we know what we've written on this site has already been lifted and pasted elsewhere on the net. We can easily see if someone is stupid enough to copy something from here and actually publish it here. But what about elsewhere?

    How much of us is out there without us knowing it?
So i guess, this is the resonance of my earlier post, Beware: Blogging.... Not that my post which have been copied
is a timebomb which can break my career, but i never thought a would-be very personal experience (because i was still planning at the time, right?) would invite that blogger to copy it and post it in his blog.
What did enter his mind when he did that?


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:29 pm

    Quoting sunlover1950:
    Well, besides agreeing with what the bloggers above me said, I think that if a person doesn't have any ideas/notions of his own to express or support, his/hers presence here is meaningless.
i have to agree with you, SL.
You're very true.


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:38 pm

    Quoting blackshilo:
    I posted a post,then after I had finished went to look at it,found nearly the exact same post by someone else,I deleted mine as I didn't want someone to think I had copied someone's post,mine is hidden,but I will post it later on,don't want anyone thinking I'm stealing their ideas...they hadn't copied mine...just the same subject...how spooky.....
Sometimes, multiple bloggers may write on
the same subject and i think it's alright as long as
the writer expresses his own take on the subject and not
copy another blogger's work word for word. If it's the
latter, then, yes, it's spooky.


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:40 pm

    Quoting jiffyblue:
    This has happened before. Ari, Mistytraveller and Agingone had posts of theirs copied and posted on other's blogs. Someone is playing games around here.
And it's not a fun game, JB.

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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:41 pm

    Quoting potterspal3:
    That is actually so sad......that there are people out there with no thoughts of their own!!!
And Potters, they don't contribute anything
to our intellect.


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:45 pm

    Quoting beta34:
    why is that when this kind of stuff happens we avoid naming the member?

I don't know beta. I can't speak for the others.
But as for me, I wouldn't want to put the person in deep sh*t
like he already is. I mean, i still care. However, i have dealt
with his behavior already by sending him an email, warning him
and giving him an advice. This post was just to add teeth to
my warning and so that other bloggers may not repeat the deed.


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:49 pm

    Quoting beta34:
    I'm here wondering about the way the time is stamped in FF. Yes, because there is the time shift, right? I see my posts with my local time stamp (e.g. the last comment I've made here is marked as 9:34pm). I see no post of yours on April 9th at 10:44am, but one at 5:16am and other at 6:13am. Today April 11th you post at 5:44am and 11:09am. Interesting
Thank you for pointing this out. I understand there is a time shift but i didn't realize that FF would stamp the blog differently depending on what time zone the member is at the moment.

However, there was really an error. In my haste, i have typed April 9, 2008 when it should have been April 11, 2008. But i have immediately edited the post and changed it appropriately (to April 11, 2008, 10:44am, my time, as appearing on my screen). I don't know where the glitch came from.


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:50 pm

    Quoting toneboney:
    Yep Got to agree, there are some strange people out there.
    Tone.
At least, you're not strange, Tone.

That's why i adore you


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:53 pm

    Quoting Mistytraveller:
    This has happened before...someone copied my post about Remembrance Day... the only way to deal with this is to create one holy mother of a stink....let people who know who copied your post... tell FF...phone them... etc...

    I'm wondering who did this to you. There is a person on this site who routinely copies and pastes other people's poetry. It's theft. I'm wondering if it's the same person?
I've seen you commented on one blogger who have copied
another blogger's poem (was that Mystyle?).

Im glad about the way you're standing up for others, Misty.


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:54 pm

    Quoting macute_lei:
    hala!hala!hala! care to share the impostor? assassin is my middle name, sis Lei
Pst! Jello, aktibista ka talaga.

have a great sunday, sis!


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:56 pm

    Quoting melmac:
    hi my friend its the melodymac
    have agreat weekend and lots of love
ei, peace bro!

lots of love your way, too.


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:57 pm

    Quoting yngathrtguy:
    Off to the bloggy dungeon they must go! There are those around here who just can't think for themselves or just don't care. Very rude for this person to copy your personal post and make it theirs. We should put these people on a list of some kind, unless the post has been given permission by another blogger to use.
Hush, Dean. I know you love me as a friend.
Thanx for being with me on this one.


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 8:59 pm

    Quoting WonderWiggle:
    I havnt got that problem anybody who copies my work and claim it as thier own is putting themselves at risk at being locked up in a lunatic assylum, im lucky i get day release.
After what you have just said, Will, no one
would ever want to mess up with you.


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/12/2008 9:01 pm

    Quoting melmac:
    stealing doesn't matter what is the same way it is spelt
    and if someone stole your post it is saying something about the individual, however you did will with a warning therefore I dont think it will happen again whoever it was

    have a great weekend again my friend
Besides, i'm okay now bro because i know
you have got my back. LOL


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macute_lei
73 posts 

4/12/2008 11:24 pm

    Quoting royalpurple:
    Pst! Jello, aktibista ka talaga.

    have a great sunday, sis!

hahaha funny FF! nakikibaka, still we're in this mess

royalpurple
1422 posts 

4/13/2008 5:28 pm

    Quoting macute_lei:
    hahaha funny FF! nakikibaka, still we're in this mess
Hopefully, not again sis.

Have you had your cappuccino today?


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fastcatkin
126 posts

4/30/2008 7:20 am

How sad they have no life of their own they have to steal words from others...

royalpurple
1422 posts 

5/1/2008 11:55 pm

    Quoting fastcatkin:
    How sad they have no life of their own they have to steal words from others...
With this experience, FC,
i can only laugh out loud

welcome to my blog!


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cbrstrks2008
499 posts 

5/2/2008 3:14 pm

I have, upon occasion, wanted to repost what some one else had written into my Weblogs. First I asked permission from the Author and then secondly, I gave accreditation to the author upon it's posting. I once put one of Ari's poems in my blog and then explained what thought process it had provoked in me. I think that is the only way to repost someone else's work. With permission and then with acknowledgment.
Bill


Standplatz und liefert

Kokoaloha
80 posts 

5/2/2008 7:09 pm

This does happen on the web. That is the risk you take putting things online, unless you have sent them off for copyrights first. You can send them to Library of Congress if you are American. I don't know wha tthe rest of the world does.

I had this happen to me too. Wrote a story completely original and less than 40 minutes after I did, they copied & pasted it and gave me no credit either!

I told them also not to do it. It makes feel violated though, doesn't it RoyalPurple?

I hate people who do this. We got into a big fight with this guy who did this to someone else on the web. Don't like thieves.

And whom did this royalpurple? I shal not visit his blogs if he's ripping peopel off.

Kokoaloha
80 posts 

5/2/2008 7:14 pm

In case you didn't know. you can google your own nic here, and maybe even find your own posts.

Yeah, that's frightening, isn't it? It means that everything we post can be viewed by the public even if we mark it for website viewing only.

Kokoaloha
80 posts 

5/2/2008 7:18 pm

You should always give people credit for their original ideas. To not do so, is being a scoundrel.

So, royalpurple, who is this guy? I will not go near his blogs if he's doing this.

royalpurple
1422 posts 

5/4/2008 7:47 pm

    Quoting cbrstrks2008:
    I have, upon occasion, wanted to repost what some one else had written into my Weblogs. First I asked permission from the Author and then secondly, I gave accreditation to the author upon it's posting. I once put one of Ari's poems in my blog and then explained what thought process it had provoked in me. I think that is the only way to repost someone else's work. With permission and then with acknowledgment.
    Bill
You have said it all, Bill.
That's the proper and decent way to repost
another blogger's works.
Thanx for your input.


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

5/4/2008 8:02 pm

    Quoting Kokoaloha:
    This does happen on the web. That is the risk you take putting things online, unless you have sent them off for copyrights first. You can send them to Library of Congress if you are American. I don't know wha tthe rest of the world does.

    I had this happen to me too. Wrote a story completely original and less than 40 minutes after I did, they copied & pasted it and gave me no credit either!

    I told them also not to do it. It makes feel violated though, doesn't it RoyalPurple?

    I hate people who do this. We got into a big fight with this guy who did this to someone else on the web. Don't like thieves.

    And whom did this royalpurple? I shal not visit his blogs if he's ripping peopel off.
If you've read my post I Look Forward To Tomorrow
you will see that it's not some copy material for a sane individual to
copy, in the sense that i was just gushing about my lunch cookout for
our relatives the next day. That's why when this person copied the whole thing and made it his FIRST ENTRY in his blog, i was really stunned!

We all don't like thieves. It's a good thing he deleted his entry which
he copied from me. Maybe because he have read my email and this post.


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

5/4/2008 8:06 pm

    Quoting Kokoaloha:
    In case you didn't know. you can google your own nic here, and maybe even find your own posts.

    Yeah, that's frightening, isn't it? It means that everything we post can be viewed by the public even if we mark it for website viewing only.
When we write something online, we know the risks
of many people viewing it. In fact, it's not a totally bad risk
for someone to view your writings because sure, we wanted traffic
in our site. But copying something from you and without giving
you credit for that is a no-no, isn't it?


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royalpurple
1422 posts 

5/4/2008 8:09 pm

    Quoting Kokoaloha:
    You should always give people credit for their original ideas. To not do so, is being a scoundrel.

    So, royalpurple, who is this guy? I will not go near his blogs if he's doing this.
I think i just have to email you the name
of this person, if i can, since i'm just a Standard Member.
You know sometimes, FF allow us, sometimes they don't

Thanx Koko for your opinion.


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debutanteBaltimr
10762 posts 

5/6/2008 1:17 pm

I had somebody pirate my eBay account once. They began to list items on MY account and I was being charged for it. I had to change my password and handle after that.

TAKEN it yet? Yes or No? ( )

royalpurple
1422 posts 

5/6/2008 5:31 pm

    Quoting debutanteBaltimr:
    I had somebody pirate my eBay account once. They began to list items on MY account and I was being charged for it. I had to change my password and handle after that.
That's even worst, deb.
wow, do they even have a conscience?
apparently, these people don't.
Good thing you have changed your handle and pw.


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