My poems were plagiarized

True :D

Gosh they are just about as bad as each other this is so crazy. I can't believe there are 81 pages worth wow!

Mera Luna found out what she had done and pmed me as well as Meena.I am very grateful to you girls.

Http://www.writerscafe.org/Cherry_Blossom/writing/

Her blog is still there with our poems and one of the members there said that mods are ineffective.They simply dont care as you can see below:

Re: Live Feed

Posted 6 Hours Ago

@Karla

Unfortunatly, the Writer's Cafe mods are severely inactive, as far as I can tell. Contacting the offender to remove the plagraised works would be the most optimal solution. I, myself, will attempt to contact the user if they aren't taken down, soon.

Hopefully, this won't strain the relationship between the Cafe and Poems and Quotes (P&Q), as it is starting to with individual members.

Karla Bardanza

Re: Live Feed

Posted 6 Hours Ago

I have already contacted her and reported what she did to DMCA. Mods are supposed to do what is paramount. The Moment they are ineffective, Writers Cafe Org becomes a site which cant be trusted anymore.

I used the Live Feed there to add 6 post telling she had plagiarized us:

LADY AMAI PLAGIARIZED ME AND SOME OTHER POETS

A Story by Karla Bardanza

LADY AMAI PLAGIARIZED ME AND SOME OTHER POETS

A Story by Karla Bardanza

LADY AMAI PLAGIARIZED MY POEMS...

A Story by Karla Bardanza

LADY AMAI PLAGIARIZED ME

A Story by Karla Bardanza

LADY AMAI PLAGIARIZED MY POEMS

A Story by Karla Bardanza

Lady Amai plagiarized my poems and the poems of mo..

A Story by Karla Bardanza

I saw that as well. I've posted on the forum there which was started by someone and then someone had the audacity to say that maybe she was doing it to promote our poems (as said above) which is total crap!!!

If so she would have stated that they were not hers and given a link to this site where the original poets are.

I won't stop fighting this

I wont stop either.

The funny thing is she stole so many people's work and we're all different in writing techniques and forms etc... people wouldn't notice if a girl or guy wrote it, they just take it without thinking

I have also filed a complaint about her.

You are right Liz.

Awesome Steven, the more people the better.

Thanks!

I made an acct just to blast her with nasty messages in which I am composing as we speak...

I sent a couple to her mailbox already.

You can also comment the stolen poems so others on that site will see.

She stole my "My Last Day Alive" poem.

The original. notice the submission date.
http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/life/poems.php?id=1183068

the fraud. submitted 2 weeks later.
http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Cherry_Blossom/848164/

Flagged and commented !
Found one so far. I am so sorry you guys have had so much stolen from you. It truly is disgusting what she has done

Comment I left too

Great poem !!! Seeing that it's mine you stupid ass.

http://www.best-love-poems.com/poems.php?id=1160716
Do you you even know what the Sestina form is ???? Yeah thought not

You are not a poet ... you are a thief. And a very pathetic one at that. You should be ashamed of yourself. You have not only stolen poems of my own but many many poems from very talented writers on poemsandquotes.com that have studied the craft and put their heart and soul into their writing ... not to have a stupid ass such as yourself claim them as her own.

I suggest you remove all the poems as I doubt not one is your own. How can you read the comments people have left you and feel proud, when it wasn't even you who wrote it ?????

BTW Thank you to Lorena who commented on MY poem below.

I signed up to check the poems, none of mine but noticed/recognised a good few from PnQ just by browsing. I flagged her profile when I was there. I fully understand why people would be angry about plagerism.

However, I think we have done as much as we can for the moment. Lots of people have flagged her, Sibs as a PnQ moderator posted in their forum. Sending the girl who plagerised the poems nasty messages or continually posting about it here or on that website I don't think will change anything at this stage. Their moderators will hopefully deal with it accordingly. Its not the Salem witch trials here, lets not have a whole lynch mob thing going on.

Its good that at least we found and reported the plagerised poems. Never like to see plagerism happening. Unfortunately that's a risk we all take when putting poems and works on the internet into the public realm: for lack of a better term, it sucks.

Well said, Colm.

It really does suck, yes indeed. I feel badly for those on this site who put so much into their work only to have it snatched away with a "copy and paste"

So sad ! Hopefully they will all be removed somehow

I flagged her profile last night & sent a list of plagiarized poems to the mods of WritersCafe.org and also a private message to 'Lady Amai', simply informing her that we want the poems removed from her profile due to violations of copyright. We've had three mods make contact with the site, apart from that I think this is pretty much all we can do at this time.

Hopefully something will be done about it soon but at the end of the day as Colm stated it is a risk we all take. Can you believe I had to leave a link to this site in one of my assignments I did for University because when I submitted a poem as part of a project it came back as plagiarized? I had to go through a long process to prove that it was actually me on this site and no one else. Once it's on the web it really is out of our control.

She's closed her profile people. Job done and all poems gone

Thanks for letting us know, Doug.

Great job to everyone involved in this.

And another plagiarizer went down. Good job everyone. I think this is the best plan of attack ..

I am grateful to you all.Thanks.I really felt bad when I saw that most of my poems were in her blog. Thanks Mera Luna, Meena, Dead Soul, Poet on the piano and above all Thanks Mods. Thanks Poems and Quotes for being one of the best sites in the world not only for the quality of the poets but for the support we all have here but Lady Amai whoever she is only changed her name and closed her profile. Our poems are still there and nothing hapened at all.

The poems are still there if you use the links above. Lol

You're right. She has changed her name:

The Craft
A Poem by rwar ish me

The Craft she learnt before she could understand
what it could mean. She looks in the mirror
and sees a crescent tattooed on her forehead
and a thousand stars gather at her feet,
reclaiming what has always belonged to her.

She raises her hand, drawing down the Moon,
feeling Her presence within her heart, visiting
supra-sensible dimensions as her conscience alters
and the whole world is a seed, a leaf, a flower
and a fruit.

Sacred woman, who are you when you are not you anymore?
Sacred woman, who do you honor when you embrace
the rituals of love and pleasure?

Hail Sweet Mother,
The Craft is what she inherited and what those who came through
her will inherit too.
Blessed Be this woman who was born into the light.
Blessed be the one who will always bow to you.

The one above is mine. Cant believe it!
She closed her profile so flag her again people!

Okay I went to flag her under her changed name with the list that has been complied here and it says that the writer has closed her profile. BUT how can we be sure that she has not gone to another site and posted all of these or changed her name again!

Oh geez, I just saw that too. She changed her name but closed her profile, the only way to get to all the poems is by the links that I see. So does that mean that she didn't take all the poems down but just closed profile/writing account part?

Yes but you can still flag her. Where are the mods there huh? What a weird thing!

I believe it may be up to the mods now to delete her account entirely, which should include the links to our poems.

I hope they do something about it

"We've had three mods make contact with the site, apart from that I think this is pretty much all we can do at this time. "

4 mods: I registered, flagged & sent protest yesterday about 4 pm

Awesome,

I just hope there's no truth to what the other person said about the mods on that site not being active.

Hey guys,

Does anyone have the link to the DMCA where you can request a takedown for free???

I am locking this thread cause we have reached 100.