I have been running an OW fan site since 2020 and have been troubled by the occasional plagiarism of its content. I find this particularly problematic because someone is presenting a record of my thoughts and findings as if they found it themselves.
I had stopped using Twitter since last April because I was sick and tired of seeing plagiarism from my site every time I saw it. However, the other day I happened to discover a post on Tumblr that contained malicious plagiarism. My site is written in Japanese, and the majority of my readers are Japanese, but I believe that posting the same content in English is an attempt to obscure the source of the original text. This is very malicious.
I had intended to put up and shut up about this, but I decided to speak up because I was convinced that silence would not stop the plagiarism by malicious individuals. For example, I have been doing comparative verification of the text of each language version of the game, but such content is something I took the time to research and write up. It is sad that someone would lie and present it as if they found it themselves.
Every page of my site has a warning to stop plagiarizing, but the person who plagiarizes ignores all of them. I thought it necessary to warn you all because that person is likely to repeat the same behavior in the future. Thanks for reading my boring talk.
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Here is one I wrote last year, but I am posting it in English because a friend of mine advised me to post it in English as well. (Translation by DeepL)
https://karayage.main.jp/t/?postid=163
https://karayage.main.jp/t/?postid=165
I have been running an OW fan site since 2020 and have been troubled by the occasional plagiarism of its content. I find this particularly problematic because someone is presenting a record of my thoughts and findings as if they found it themselves.
I had stopped using Twitter since last April because I was sick and tired of seeing plagiarism from my site every time I saw it. However, the other day I happened to discover a post on Tumblr that contained malicious plagiarism. My site is written in Japanese, and the majority of my readers are Japanese, but I believe that posting the same content in English is an attempt to obscure the source of the original text. This is very malicious.
I had intended to put up and shut up about this, but I decided to speak up because I was convinced that silence would not stop the plagiarism by malicious individuals. For example, I have been doing comparative verification of the text of each language version of the game, but such content is something I took the time to research and write up. It is sad that someone would lie and present it as if they found it themselves.
Every page of my site has a warning to stop plagiarizing, but the person who plagiarizes ignores all of them. I thought it necessary to warn you all because that person is likely to repeat the same behavior in the future. Thanks for reading my boring talk.