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Re: Text spinning/disguised plagiarism
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The Pharmacist
on 22/07/2018, 18:40:31 UTC
The old fashion way, manually, searching through each and every page.
Doubly good catch, then.  I've caught copy/pasters much the same way, but it was never moronic paraphrasing like what you found here--that makes it harder, unless you're reading very closely.

Also, did you report these knuckleheads?  It's a pet peeve of mine when people who make good catches like this don't report or don't say that they reported them.  I'd be happy to, but I won't if you've already done it.

Changing a few words is still stealing the idea of the original author. 
It absolutely is.  I understand why they do it--most of them probably can't assemble English words into anything that resembles a coherent sentence, so they have to change and reassemble sentences that already exist.  Sadly, I think this is a cultural thing with a lot of them.  They just don't think it's wrong to do this.

By the way Flying Hellfish, you left the Chipmixer campaign already?