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Post by Julie on Jan 1, 2007 20:08:11 GMT -6
Attention everyone who is against plagiarism: we need your help!!
Here's the short version of what we're going to do to continue the fight against Refresh and Tanja the Plagiarizer:
We're going to invade the Refresh forums posing as Busted and McFly fanfic authors ourselves, post our fanfics altered to be Busted or McFly stories (by changing the names, like Tanja did), and make friends with the posters over there. Then they will see that we're nice people, and we'll have allies in our fight against plagiarism.
If you're interested or want in, read the longer, more detailed version in my post below.
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Post by Julie on Jan 1, 2007 20:10:45 GMT -6
The latest on the Tanja plagiarism/RefreshDaily incident is that there is no latest. Our formal complaint, which we sent to the owner of Refresh via snail mail, went ignored, and any attempt to contact him or one of the other mods has gone unresponded to. We've jumped through their hoops, played the game their way, and now they're breaking their own rules and not doing a damn thing about the obvious plagiarism on their site. So, we're changing the game and playing our own way. Complaining on the board and pissing them off hasn't gotten us anywhere; they just censor our posts, ban us, and then eventually ignore us. So we're going to try a different tactic. The plan is this: those of us who write and are comfortable doing this will register at Refresh as an alias/alter-ego, not ourselves. We will take our own Bsb stories and, following in Tanja's footsteps, change them to either Busted or McFly fanfics simply by changing the characters' names (easy to do when you use Find & Replace on Word). We will then post the edited stories on the Busted/McFly Fanfic board and try to attract readers/fans among the posters already there. In the meantime, we and anyone who would like to join us will also try to suck up to some of the regulars there by giving them feedback on their own stories (it can be generic feedback, like, "Great part, more soon!" - no reading required). We will also give each other feedback to bump our own stories up to the top and make them seem worth reading. Eventually, we hope to make friends with some of the posters there and get them on our side. That's Phase I of the plan. For Phase II, one of us will go on a Bsb forum, like NLY maybe, and start posting our stories, the original Bsb versions, there. Then, over at Refresh, we will claim plagiarism and become outraged that some Bsb fan has stolen our stories and posted them on a forum! With any luck, our new fans will be outraged on our behalf as well. And somehow, the plan is that this will lead to their gaining empathy for authors who are plagiarized and signing a petition or something to give to the mods to get them to do something about Tanja and her plagiarism. It's really way too long and too intricate a plan for all we hope to gain out of it, but meh, I think it would be funny, so I'm in. Mare and Chaos from AbsoluteChaos are supporting it too, and we're waiting to hear back from more authors on the AC Discussion Boards as to whether they will join us. I thought I'd post the plan here and get some input. Writers, would any of you be willing to alter your stories a bit and post them? And readers, would any of you be willing to register at Refresh and post some feedback to support us? We want to build the biggest Backstreet Army of supporters we can so that if we get to the point where we can make a petition or something, we'll have a lot of names and a lot of power. If anyone has any other ideas, please share!
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Post by Julie on Jan 2, 2007 1:19:29 GMT -6
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Post by estrella on Jan 2, 2007 5:10:24 GMT -6
Sounds good! A very good plan Julie . I hope it works.
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Post by estrella on Jan 2, 2007 5:27:34 GMT -6
I've signed up! Now I am candy_n_popcorn, and my name is Esther! Weird. Hehe.
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Post by estrella on Jan 2, 2007 5:44:37 GMT -6
Arghhh it's annoyingly messy.
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Post by Julie on Jan 2, 2007 5:50:11 GMT -6
YAY!!! Thanks Estrella! ;D Post on one of my threads so I can add you to my buddy list LOL.
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Post by Julie on Jan 2, 2007 5:50:30 GMT -6
And yes I know, I hate that site; it's messy, and it takes too long to load.
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Post by estrella on Jan 2, 2007 5:55:58 GMT -6
Yeah, I'm pretty tired of the grass. I just posted on your thread!
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Post by estrella on Jan 2, 2007 5:58:13 GMT -6
Anyway I should go have lunch soon. Bye!
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Post by Julie on Jan 2, 2007 6:12:18 GMT -6
Yeah, I'm pretty tired of the grass. I just posted on your thread! Thanks! ;D I've got you on my buddy list now. And you can change the grass, thank god!! You just have to upload a pic to your gallery, and you can set it as your background. I have yellow roses... haha... as mine, and it's much prettier and less annoying!
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Post by estrella on Jan 2, 2007 6:15:31 GMT -6
Oh, good to know. I thought the grass would haunt me for the rest of my life, haha.
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Post by estrella on Jan 2, 2007 6:23:42 GMT -6
Oh and so we can all be buddies everyone please post their "name" here. Together we will overcome!! Mwahahahaha...
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Post by Julie on Jan 2, 2007 6:35:49 GMT -6
Hehe, great minds think alike. I started a thread to post our pseudonyms (we're calling ourselves psuedofans because we're not really fans of Busted or McFly, and we have pseudonyms - fake names LOL) on the Absolute Chaos discussion boards, and I posted yours there cause I didn't think you had an account. So I'll post the ones from there here! My username is YellowRose514: www.refreshdaily.com/member.php?u=129697Pseudonym: Addison (Addie) Rose's username is RockstarBaby: www.refreshdaily.com/member.php?u=129702Pseudonym: RayAnne (Ray) Dee's username is dougiesmelody: www.refreshdaily.com/member.php?u=129703Pseudonym: Melody That's all we've got so far... I think the mods are all still asleep.
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Post by estrella on Jan 2, 2007 6:50:15 GMT -6
My username is candy_n_popcorn and my "name" is Esther.
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