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tsk - task ... that's why I never bothered writing articles...

TA wrote:

tsk - task ... that's why I never bothered writing articles...

oh yah,

I wrote several articles, even had the wife and a couple employees write articles for publishing. Didn't take long before I seen a few of them with a different author in the bio. Have now stopped that and only publish them on my own site now.

I don't get it -- especially writing that in response to an editor for an ezine. If no one ever wrote articles, I'd still be submitting my websites to SEs or Ping my journal entries every time I update them. Yes, some dweebs make it a habit of stealing other's works, but you think the response is to write no articles?! My one article that was picked up by others (others haven't been) enlightened some on an important issue, and garnished my sites some extra visitors. It did what it was supposed to do.

To let the theives win, is to ultimately make the Internet one big commericial! Is that really what you want? I realize that the Internet has more commercials on it then TV, but, at least, sometimes, in between the commericials I can retreive good information or have some fun! I just don't think the response to theives is to let them win. Mock, embarrass, hang them up with computer wiring, but don't let them win.

Maybe we all should copy Nic's articles and post 'em everywhere as our own...

G'day.

The appropriate respons to plagiarism would vary widely according a whole range of factors. Two that spring to mind are:

• Are you a big fish or a little fish in this huge ocean?


• Your personality type. There are those who are driven to persue justice to the bitter end, and those who can happily leave the matter and get on with something easier, as well as a whole range in between.

The world looks quite different through the eyes of different people. It doesn't pay to put one's own view of things onto others.

Regards,
Laurie.

Last edited by laurie_m (2007-03-15 14:37:18)

atwhatcost wrote:

On the other hand, I am wondering if that article was written by a ghost writer, who had no problems selling it to more then one person, without bothering to tell them that it had been used before.

That's an important question and one i always ask both parties

usually it's pretty obvious they are not but still worth checking into

and experienced ghostwriters should understand that once they give up the right to their writing piece (as should be mentioned in their agreement) they no longer have any rights to it- including author status

Sheesh Lynn, Give me something to think about next time. I'm with Nic - Like your style

Nic,

I had found one guy that was using my articles for his page content with no mention of our site. I e-mailed him explaining my dissatisfaction with his use of the articles and no credit. I included words of threat to notify the big three SE's and  report his site as a complete plagiarism site unless he gave due credit or removed them from his site. He removed them from his site rather than give credit and never did respond to my e-mail. I monitored his site on a daily basis for about a month before the site was completely gone.

Had about a dozen other instances where I found an article and after e-mailing with my dissatisfaction about them claiming credit, about half were corrected, couple disappeared and a few were reworded in different formats as so I could not claim it as a duplicate of my own.

In General;
Given these problems, the problem with finding where our articles are used because the title can be easily changed and there are only so many ways you can word issues that relate to home security that would grab somebodies attention that they haven't already seen.

Example;
How many different ways can you tell people to lock their doors and windows?
Why you should install Smoke Detectors and Carbon Monoxide Detectors?
etc etc

Does not matter what area of the world you live in, burglaries happen and the preventative steps are all the same.

I don't want anybody to misunderstand me, I am not saying that article writing and submitting it, is not worthwhile. When I was submitting articles to article sites and e-zines I did notice an increase in traffic for the first few days after the article was published.
I just found out that article writing and most submissions to be posted was actually more work for me than the roi of my time.