Duplicate Hubs - does anyone care?

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   nicompposted 8 years ago

   These two hubs are word-for-word identical in many places:
   
   http://hubpages.com/hub/3000-Words-on-M … nt-1574630
   
   http://hubpages.com/hub/How-can-you-start-a-new-hub
   
   I reported this to both authors and also flagged one of the hubs over a week ago. One author should be ticked off and one should be banned; so far nothing has happened as far as I can tell.
   
   Should I care or is this a common occurrence?

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      Uninvited Writerposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Did you send an email to team@hubpages.com? That is probably the quickest way to get it removed. The original author also has a thread about this.

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   Nelle Hoxieposted 8 years ago

   I would think hubpages would care. Duplicate content isn't a good idea, in my book. But it's up to them.
   
   The first hub has been ranked frequently in the top hubs listing. So I'd think he would care.

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   awsydneyposted 8 years ago

   The first hub has so many comments from sometime back while the second one has none. It's pretty obvious who's the culprit and he should be kicked out of this place.

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   jonmarshposted 8 years ago

   That's pretty bold to copy it right back to hubpages.
   
   It probably doesn't hurt the original author since the hub is well established.

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      awsydneyposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      That's not the point Jon Marsh. I just think it's utterly unethical for someone to copy another's work and have the gall to paste it on  the same site waiting to be discovered. He might me more stupid than he is unethical!

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         jonmarshposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         I was just making a different point.

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   Crazdwriterposted 8 years ago

   The original author actually did post his concerns about this yesterday. So I have also flagged the one who copied. Hopefully the author did what Uninvited Writer said to do and email the team as well.

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      nicompposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      As far as I can tell the original author has disabled the "Contact me" link on his profile. I was unable to contact him directly when I noticed this situation. I suggest that everyone enable that link so we can help each other with issues such as this.
      
      Maybe I'm just a busybody.

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         awsydneyposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         No you're not. There should be zero tolerance for plagiarism especially when it comes with stupidity.

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   livewithrichardposted 8 years ago

   The second hub is not just duplicate it is plagiarism and because there is adsesne on the second hub it is also a copyright infringement.

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   Nelle Hoxieposted 8 years ago

   Nope you're not a busybody. No one wants this guy copying our hubs next.
   
   Feel free to contact me anytime, if you notice someone copying my hubs word for word.

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   Crazdwriterposted 8 years ago

   No way are you a busybody nicomp. You are doing the right thing by trying to warn the other person. You are a great guy for doing that nicomp. If someone was doing that to me I would definitely want you to tell me. and to help me out with it. I have mine up so you can contact me.
   
   And yea some ppl don't but that is up to them I guess even if there are ppl like us who want to help them out.

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   Maddie Ruudposted 8 years ago

   This has been dealt with already.

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      Crazdwriterposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you Maddie!

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      manlypoetrymanposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Yeah...Thanks Maddie...Copying really stinks...(to put it in a mild tone!)

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    anime_nanetposted 8 years ago

    KAPOW! Busted!

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