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Re: Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here. Mods: please give temp or permban as needed
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nullius
on 02/04/2021, 02:00:06 UTC

Hate to break it to you but I never read your posts, nullius. Any time we engage its because I'm responding to your attacks on me and correcting your outright lies. I'm not some bounty hunter who can't form an original thought, and I won't get paid for it as its past the 5th page in that thread (campaign condition). So why would I plagiarize your post?? Do you honestly believe you were the first and only person to notice the highlighted coincidences?

Your blustering ad hominem counterattack and irrelevant excuses are quoted for reference.  Anyone who reviews the above-quoted evidence can see that you ripped off my post; and it’s sad that every scammer you have ever tagged is better than you at flimsy evasions when caught red-handed.

“We had the same thoughts” is a classic.  And it’s a tough sell when your post so closely follows mine in substance, in structure, and in style:

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[General observation that Bitcoiners are attacking NFTs with the same arguments used against Bitcoin.]

  • [A checklist of exactly four (4) quasi-quoted examples, punctuated with Unicode checkmarks...]
  • [...the examples provided are substantively almost identical, but slightly tweaked and shuffled.]

[Suggestion that this list can be extended.]

A professor of textual analysis could do much better than that in collating the similarities of our posts.  I needn’t bother.

Your aping of my list with Unicode checkmarks is especially telling.  ✔✓   I have done that in several posts.  It is a relatively rare* style of delivery.  By so noting, I do not wish to detract attention from how closely you copied the substance and structure of my post.

Why would you do it?  If I had to guess, I’d say that you wanted to apply my arguments—but you did not want to reference my post, because you personally dislike me, and you pretend that you “never read” my posts.  However, the question of “why” is mostly irrelevant:  It is obvious what you did.

(* Amusingly enough, I think that it is probably much more rare than use of the English literary stock phrase “sow discord”; among other places, minor grammatical variations of that phrase are used in the King James Bible, in English translations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and in one of my own Newbie-ranked posts from 2017.  So much for reasonably assessing the weight of evidence in various cases.)