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Re: Use of article spinner and plagiarism
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nullius
on 08/12/2020, 13:47:54 UTC
If you're caught plagiarising then you will be permenantly banned and text spinning is even worse because you obviously know you're doing something wrong and are actively trying to hide it.

What about running a foreign-language article through Google Translate to English, prepending it with an explicit claim of your own authorship (“In this article I would like to touch upon...”), burying a link to the foreign-language original in the middle of a list of 7 links in <size=8pt> text at the bottom, insisting that all but “maybe 10%” of the forum is copied and pasted from elsewhere, and attacking everybody who accuses you of plagiarism?


Google Translate of articles written in a different language must be the worst “text-spinner” yet invented.  It must be generally quite difficult to catch.  I wonder how much of that is actually happening.