the plagiarism saga continues!

[eilonwy1]

Here's the latest in the nastiness:

I PMed the plagiarist and she replied. I'll let our exchange speak for itself:

"You really had a nerve, plagiarizing my story, "A Writer of Fictions"! Just who the hell do you think you are, stealing somebody else's hard work? You just don't take what belongs to somebody else and claim it as yours! It's ethically

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[withdrawnred]

Wow. I don't even know what to say to that. Words are popping to mind, but they aren't appropriate for mixed company.

The only thing that makes me feel better is knowing how fast this fandom community is at finding plagiarizers and reporting them.

[justthedreams]

Gods, some people... There aren't even words for the level of stupidity and arrogance of this thief. And what the hell is this: "I will continue to write my stories"? Um, excuse me, but last I checked, you were too damned lazy and boring to write your own and resorted to stealing the work of others! >:(

It did sound like she threatened to steal your work again, but the H&V/Dramione/HP community seems to be really good about catching plagiarists. Hopefully it won't even be an issue, but this person seems completely delusional. Who knows what she'll do... Grr

[starlight_x_a_x]

As mentioned in comments across the comms, hopefully FFn will be able to completely ban her using her IP address. Do you think FFn would be able to share her IP address so we could block her from H&V and GE? She took the disclaimer from H&V so must be a member there unless someone sent her a copy.

Also her response is extremely petty and childish, if your work 'sucks' why did she take it in the first place? 'stop tooting your own horn. You have 14 people who know of it.' I assume she means there were 14 people who told her she had stolen this before it was took down. Again, because of the disclaimer she clearly took the fic from H&V where there are 205 reviews and +65'000 read count, so she obviously knows your work is kinda fandom famous. She's just an idiot.

[margaritaabate]

Unfucking believable. This is unreal! I'm flabbergasted and disgusted. What gall and conceit. So she thinks its okay to be a thief. Dear lord. Its why I hate that site and don't post a damn thing there anymore (if it weren't for a small handful of authors that post their work there I would be there at all).

Sending that bitch evil thoughts. I hope she does get caught again and again and continues to get nasty notes. I hope the folks at FF.net ban her ass and good.

You have our support, lovie!

[reetinkerbell]

Wow. You know, most people who plagiarise don't reply, they just slink away and pretend nothing ever happened, change their user name and start posting other stories (also plagiarised, I'm sure) but to reply? That is worrying, I have to say