Oh hey, guess what? Plagiarism...

[Electric Monk]

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So I'm doing this weird hybrid course at school, part of it is on the internet. We submit our work to a forum that really does leave much to be desired when compared to DU.

The thing is that other people can see our work before they submit theirs, if we post it early enough.

Guess who did that? Yeah, me.

So, it was just begging to be plagiarized because I actually write my shit in paragraphs, where most of the class is so fucking stupid they just post one huge ass unreadable paragraph.

Anyhow, we have to reply to someone else's thread as a part of our assignment. Seems innocent enough right?

Until I wake up to do my work and you know what? The first one I read is an very indirect rip off.

The next one though contained the exact same line I wrote. The author said it was a quote from our book. The problem is that the book doesn't say that, but guess what did?

You guessed it, my post.

Fucker.

[originalpckelly]

1. The question is:

How the fuck did that happen?

It's so awesome how this happened about plagiarism.

[chollybocker]

2. Heh.

You should, in your final text, footnote the quote as your own, i.e., let your P/PA know what's up without actually saying it. Heh.

"...one huge ass unreadable paragraph."

My sister writes her emails like that; two or three single-spaced pages with nary a paragraph break in sight. Drives me f*ckin crazy. What is up with that?

[originalpckelly]

4. That's my post...

And yeah, what the fuck is up with that?

I honestly don't know how the poster did it, but this post actually links back to my post when I hit edit on it.

The win here is amazing.

[Electric Monk]

5. Notice the time stamp on the 'edit'? 18 minutes prior to the thread being posted.

Here's what I posted to make it look like that, except with square brackets.

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I'm happy you got a laugh out of it

[struggle4progress]

3. Excellent post!