My hubs are beeing flaged

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   Uninvited Writerposted 16 years ago

   I notice this on his profile:
   
   "As a freelancer he has started hubing as a hobby in the first place and to share others great articles and useful information .."
   
   Unfortunately, he doesn't mention those "others" by name

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   Mishaposted 16 years ago

   Just to be fair - nobody picks up on your Romanian spelling and grammar. The guy is from Romania...

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      Mark Knowlesposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      At least the stuff he copies is in English

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   broalexposted 16 years ago

   Kerrig or whatever your name is ...
   
   Was that you calling me a LOSER ? Go report your stupidity to Google Better Understand ? Reporting me to adsense ? LOL ) And Which of the Google TOS was broken ? You are such a kiddie darling go to sleep better .. tellin` ya

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      Uninvited Writerposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      Scroll up...

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         Bonnie Ramseyposted 16 years agoin reply to this

         I would think that STOLEN would be self explainatory. Not sure how many other ways that could be explained.

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   broalexposted 16 years ago

   Yup I am from Romania near Russia
   
   Hubs are being flagged unfairly Anyways ...  Low Hub Score Affects the Score and That`s it !
   
   So Game Girl Start playing - flagging Hubs
   
   Take a look at http://hubpages.com/hub/mortgage-chase-com -
   
   There is serious flagging to do there - Run for it

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   kerrygposted 16 years ago

   Romanian. That actually explains more than just the bad grammar. ~sighs~
   
   broalex, as UninvitedWriter says, scroll up. Plagiarism is against the law, and considerably better writers than you have been forced to face the consequences of it.
   
   Or hell, I'll even demonstrate MY mad copy-paste skillz just for you:
   
   

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   Stacie Naczelnikposted 16 years ago

   So, I really don't think a flagging war needs to start.  How about we all only flag when it is truly necessary?  If you are unsure of what deserves flagging and what doesn't, just don't flag.
   
   When something of yours has been flagged, instead of "getting back" at someone, find out why it was flagged--either you need to fix something, or they system inadvertently got it, and the HP team will manually fix it for you.
   
   If you guys start a flagging war, all you will do is create a ton of work for the HP team, which will only hurt all of us...even those who don't flag, or do flag correctly.  These games mean we all lose.

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      Uninvited Writerposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      I don't know about others but I only do flag when I see flagrant plagiarizing or spamming, and I don't have time to check every one of his hubs

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         Stacie Naczelnikposted 16 years agoin reply to this

         My comment wasn't geared towards anyone but the ones threatening to "reciprocate" the flagging.

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            Uninvited Writerposted 16 years agoin reply to this

            I know, I didn't take it personally

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   Mark Knowlesposted 16 years ago

   Now that's the sort of thing that gets you deleted.
   
   Paul suggested, and I agree - don't just flag this stuff. Report it to the people who it is stolen from. Get them to complain to google. They will ban the adsense account. No more money - no more stealing

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   StevePposted 16 years ago

   How about those who flag to reduce the score of a hub competitor that is writing about the same topic? Think it does not happen?
   
   broalex pointed out a really good one in the last one he recommended game girl go flag. That "author" has 439 hubs that are almost ALL copy paste.
   
   So game girl. You hinestly believe that I could not take a couple sentences from ANY of your hubs and find them in the BILLIONS of websites posted online? If I can then I guess it is duplicate content right?
   
   At what percentage do YOU deem it to be duplicate since you seem to have nothing better to do than search online to see if hubbers have "stolen content" I'm just curious because you all seem to be the authorities on duplicate content.
   
   Please point me to the "Articles Of Duplicate Content" you drafted for the online world.
   
   I bet I can take random sentences from any one of any of you alls hubs and find those sentences somewhere online. if I can then they are duplicate content.
   
   I love all this hollier than thou crap from people who have nothing better to do with their time.
   
   Like the one guy who ALWAY puts in his hubs "not selling anything here" (you know who you are and you're on this thread) YOU ARE selling something. If you are TRULY here to "not sell anything" then take your adsense account of your hubpages account, don't post any ebay or amazon listings.

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      Mark Knowlesposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      LOL _ I know who I am.
      
      I also know you have no hubs now.

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         StevePposted 16 years agoin reply to this

         And I suppose you being one of the "Hubbing Gods" took care of that?

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            Mark Knowlesposted 16 years agoin reply to this

            No.
            
            I am not a hubbing god (except the sarcasm)
            
            You guys are just too dumb to realize than coming on to the forum and making a fuss just draws attention to yourselves. LOL  Hubpages must get 2-3,000 (just guessing) hubs added a day. They can't look at all of them. Silly boy.

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   broalexposted 16 years ago

   STEVE of course "He is Selling Something Around" and Game Girl has 40% of her hubs copied from elsewhere on the web there is no doubt i`ve been going through them and even search for them.
   
   Google doesn`t Ban People for Plagiarism Mark .. that non-sense
   
   
   

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      Mark Knowlesposted 16 years agoin reply to this

      They will ban your adsense account if the person you stole the content from makes a complaint and it is upheld. You will not easily get another one.

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    Uninvited Writerposted 16 years ago

    An excerpt from this site:
    
    http://www.plagiarism.org/learning_cent … arism.html
    
    
    "copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)"

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       StevePposted 16 years agoin reply to this

       Out of curiousity who is the owner of that site?

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          Uninvited Writerposted 16 years agoin reply to this

          I don't know but they took the definition from the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary.

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    StevePposted 16 years ago

    So they stole content, ironic is it not?

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       Uninvited Writerposted 16 years agoin reply to this

       No, they properly quoted it and gave credit to the source...

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          Uninvited Writerposted 16 years agoin reply to this

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    broalexposted 16 years ago

    

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    gamergirlposted 16 years ago

    Hmm.. Well, considering that I've spent hours and hours writing my hubs, making sure that I darn well don't copy other writers, no matter what I'm writing about, the "insults" from Steve and broalex don't really phase me.
    
    If you feel my hubs, which I have spent Lord only knows how long writing from scratch, researching facts and information for, and re-reading to make sure they both make sense and follow the rules and common decency of writing, are duplicates, feel free to send me an email linking exactly which hubs you're concerned over and I will go over them yet again.  I can assure you that I have done my level best to ensure my content is nothing but my own.
    
    Outside of that, no broalex.  I will not go on a flagging spree just because you think it'd be fun or funny. 
    
    Talk about holier than thou, there is a certain level of that going on from broalex, copy/pasting content from a variety of authors and yet claiming it was all written by him.  Despicable.

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    broalexposted 16 years ago

    Gave Credit ?

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       Uninvited Writerposted 16 years agoin reply to this

       They said where it was from and then rewrote it in, as they said, "easy to understand terms"

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    gamergirlposted 16 years ago

    Time to step off this merry-go-round.  Let these children who think it's all fun and games to steal other people's hard work just keep digging their own holes.
    
    I've got better things to do, like play the Sims: Life Stories.

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       Uninvited Writerposted 16 years agoin reply to this

       I agree. Life is to short to try and get some people to understand the concept of copyright and plagiarism.

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    broalexposted 16 years ago

    Mark I could figure that one out . That HP doesn`t check all the hubs and it`s not their script doing the job. It`s only the people flagging them

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       Mark Knowlesposted 16 years agoin reply to this

       Not sure, but Steve here had hubs when he started - and then - all gone. Nothing to do with me.
       
       All I was saying is I have seen a few people come on the forum and make a fuss. All of them skirting the rules and then - gone.

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    Mishaposted 16 years ago

    Yep,
    
    And stay assured - from now on you'll have quite a few eyes checking your every new hub for plagiarism LOL
    
    ....providing you survive this crisis of course

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    pauldeedsposted 16 years ago

    1. If you think something may violate the HubPages rules please flag it.  Every flagged hub will be reviewed by a person at HubPages and the appropriate action taken.
    
    2. If you think something has been copied from somewhere else, please flag it as a duplicate here at HubPages.  This will cause our automated dupe checker to apply extra scrutiny to that hub, but it will of course only be penalized if it is duplicate content.   Further, if you want to go the extra mile you can also contact whomever you believe to be the original author and give them this URL:
    
    http://hubpages.com/help/copyright_infringement
    
    All they have to do is file a complaint with us and we will remove the content very quickly.  That is the only way something that is a duplicate will be removed by us, unless of course we ban the author altogether for other violations.
    
    3. Please don't get into long drawn out arguments in the forums.  Just flag it and move on.
    
    This thread is now closed.

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