Something That Ticked Me Off...

Ok, today I was surfing on the top rated poems in "life", when I found a poem by E|V|V|A ~!3~ called "The Woman In The Glass"...

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/life/poems.php?id=392018

For some reason I got annoyed because I felt like I read it before, and after a quick Google check up, I was right. The original author wrote this in 1934!!!....I was so mad that she did this...And here is the original link:

http://www.rayhunt.com/man.htm

...As if that wasn't enough I found 4 other plagiarized poems of the same title....On this site.

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/life/poems.php?id=359136

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/life/poems.php?id=345105

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/sad/poems.php?id=270434

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/life/poems.php?id=72769

This is ridiculous because it isn't fair how people would post these poems and then say "Please vote and comment I put a lot of effort into this one"...I don't understand! This is plagiarism and something should be done immediately. How could something like this possibly slip by...I know I shouldn't bother with this and I am sorry if I offend anyone. I am not trying to put a blame...Just making a point on how these things should be taken more seriously...There is nothing more low than plagiarism...

...Watch me now be hated for this post...
xxx Take care all xxx

Wow, 4 others did the same?

Oh, yeah. They did a lot of effort to it...copying and pasting. Yes, it IS ridiculous.

of course you will not be hated for this post. But did you report those poems as being plagiarized?

I understand people's frustration upon finding plagiarized poems on here, but the best way to get it taken care of is to report it. And then if you want, check one or two of their other poems to see if they are plagiarized, too. It only takes two instances of plagiary to get your account suspended.

When you report poems, be sure to include a link to the poem you feel is probably the original.

[added: I have taken care of E|V|V|A ~!3~, ALOT of her poems are plagiarized]

Ann Marie:

" I have taken care of E|V|V|A ~!3~"

Sounds like killed her...

but you didn't:)

or did you...?:|

*sounds like you killed her

Ok, next time I will report it. What did you do to the others who plagiarized?

I "took care of them" as well :) one of them just had the one poem, so it got deleted and she has another chance to stay and not steal poems, another one of them had other poems, but I could find any others that were stolen,and the others (I think there were two more) are suspended now, since they had more poems that wew stolen.

What I do is this:

When I find a plagiarized poem, Ireport that poem and then add that author to my faves list. Then I will go back to their list and search through their poems. It only takes 2 counts of plagiary for your account to be suspended. But I continue to look until I've reported 5 or 6, just in case the "proof" I find is not adequate.

Dainz checks the plaigiary reports every day and usually the ones I've reported one day are suspended the next day or two days later at the most. After they have been suspended, I delete them from my favorites list.

If I am searching for a particular poem (Like "I went to a Party Mom") and find A LOT of instances of that title, I will save the URL from the search result in my favorites on my web browser. Then I can look at each poet that took THAT poem and see if they took others.

I'd say that I've found nearly 100 plagiarizers over the past month or so.

When I was still in school (I'm on Summer vacation now), during my free time in one of my classes, I would go through the top funny poems, and report all of them (not without proper evidence) because 99.9% of all of the funny poems are really just plagiarized.

I got a bit harrassed for it: E-Mails, and comments, and such... But what's the worst they could do to you?

~Ciao Lipton

vote all your poems 1, and tell you that you are a big ****, which really does nothing, but ensure that they get suspended...Keep it up

I am prepared for anything if it means busting those thieves...My army and I will stand strong.

I know Lipton, funny is the worst catergory for plagiarism...

Nice work whoever detected the above, nice work...we don't hate on plagiarism catchers, but the the thieves themselves :O)

Ann is the poem stealer general, and she is good....makes me all warm inside.

probably not...They are bad people...

*plagiarise, plagiarism

OR

*plagiarize, plagiarizm for US :o)

I don't think they feel any shame at all...it's a shame.