I really wish that the developer community was better about citing sources. I see so much borrowed language from my posts in other people’s, outright cribbed posts, “heavily inspired” or copy and pasted tweets, and repurposed content. I’ve never pursued doing anything about it, but may in the future.
How I check for it: copy and paste a quote from your post in quotation marks into google — can be super surprising.
It doesn’t make you look less legit to add citations or backlinks in your posts. I probably overcite resources in mine — but making content takes a ton of work. Wish people would give credit where credit is due.
That's super awesome that going after it worked!! Too bad it's even a problem though. Thanks for writing this -- super important for people to be aware of!
Yes I definitely agree with this. This happened to me on Facebook when someone copied my post word for word without giving credits to the author. I immediately contacted the person through messenger and thankfully the problem was resolved.
I definitely agree with you there! Citing sources is not difficult but it can become problematic when you see posts clearly misusing your work by not citing, providing back-links or just taking ownership for work that you created.
I use the same method to check if my work has been plagiarized but it's not something I do often though. I can see why you would have to - you have a more extensive body of work than I do so I can only imagine how it is for you. It sucks to have to deal with it but in my case, I couldn't let it go. You definitely should look into doing something about it! Sometimes it takes a few stern words to get the point across that not citing your sources isn't right and other times it takes hunting down their hosting providers lol 😆
I was half-expecting for it not to work but, I'm glad it did! Thank you Ali, your kind words are much appreciated!
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I really wish that the developer community was better about citing sources. I see so much borrowed language from my posts in other people’s, outright cribbed posts, “heavily inspired” or copy and pasted tweets, and repurposed content. I’ve never pursued doing anything about it, but may in the future.
How I check for it: copy and paste a quote from your post in quotation marks into google — can be super surprising.
It doesn’t make you look less legit to add citations or backlinks in your posts. I probably overcite resources in mine — but making content takes a ton of work. Wish people would give credit where credit is due.
That's super awesome that going after it worked!! Too bad it's even a problem though. Thanks for writing this -- super important for people to be aware of!
Yes I definitely agree with this. This happened to me on Facebook when someone copied my post word for word without giving credits to the author. I immediately contacted the person through messenger and thankfully the problem was resolved.
Thanks for raising aware to this issue!
I definitely agree with you there! Citing sources is not difficult but it can become problematic when you see posts clearly misusing your work by not citing, providing back-links or just taking ownership for work that you created.
I use the same method to check if my work has been plagiarized but it's not something I do often though. I can see why you would have to - you have a more extensive body of work than I do so I can only imagine how it is for you. It sucks to have to deal with it but in my case, I couldn't let it go. You definitely should look into doing something about it! Sometimes it takes a few stern words to get the point across that not citing your sources isn't right and other times it takes hunting down their hosting providers lol 😆
I was half-expecting for it not to work but, I'm glad it did! Thank you Ali, your kind words are much appreciated!