I am on the Digg.com Main Page AGAIN

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One of my blog posts has just hit the Digg.com main page… for the third straight time. Infact, the story in general has been on there 5 times.

I think this has to be a record for Digg.com, the exact same blog post, hitting the main page three times.

You may be wondering how my server is coping? Well, it is coping fine, you see…. my blog post was stolen… plagiarized!

Here is my blog post from last December, it was discussed in 16 languages and read by over 248,500 readers.

Now check this one out that made the front page a couple of hours ago (I buried it): stolen version.

It is the exact same email.

He messed up by copying my reply word for word as well. I mean, it is one thing trying to claim he received the exact same email as me, but to give the exact same reply, word for word… well, that would be impossible.

lesson of the day: Plagiarism works on Digg.com

Second lesson of the day: If you are going to steal someone’s emails and claim them to be your own, don’t copy them word for word, leaving in all the personal stuff.

Congratulations, you are today’s moron. 

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9 COMMENTS

  • http://maryspad.com mary

    Wow! What blatant plagiarism!! The interesting thing is that the author of this stolen version even left a comment on your original posts!

    I left a comment on his/her post calling him out on the plagiarism. Let’s see if the comment gets published!

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  • http://deanhunt.com Dean Hunt

    haha, i can’t believe he would comment on my blog post last December, and then use the exact same post thinking he could get away with.

    He has to be the dumbest thief on the net ;-)

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  • http://nspeaks.com NSpeaks

    Well some people can do anything to get on Digg mainpage. :lol:

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  • http://maryspad.com mary

    Yep, dumbest thief on the planet sums it up pretty nicely! heh, it’s kind of funny, especially because on Digg a lot of comments mentioning the plagiarism are being left with your link on them :)

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  • http://deanhunt.com Dean Hunt

    Mary,

    yes, that is how I found out about this. I saw I had hits from Digg so investigated it.

    He went to all the trouble of creating fake screenshots as well.

    Bless.

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  • Tom

    A nice way to get bad reputation and lose credibility. “Plagiarism works on Digg.com”, will you submit this to digg ?

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  • http://maryspad.com mary

    He totally ignored and deleted my comment to him… lol. If he was being honest he’d have published it and then responded to it. What a moron indeed!

    About the screenshots, I suspect he emailed those to himself, or had someone email them to him. Maybe he figured having screenshots would make his post more legit? lol.

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  • http://www.not-telling.com Reaper

    Like Mary I posted a comment on his blog too and since it won’t ever get published, I thought I’d take a screenshot so everyone can see what I writted :)

    http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee211/reaper28_2007/plagurism.gif

    Enjoy!

    Dean, if this isn’t worth another Digg submission, I don’t know what is … :)

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  • http://yourcelebrities.com/ Andrius

    What you think about fake news in digg.com ? example: Bill Gates dead…

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