SumYungGai's Forum Posts

27 Sep 2011

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SumYungGai. Welcome to our site. If you intend to join our community and enjoy yourself, then let us know how we can help with that. If you're butthurt because a victim of plagiarism showed her displeasure and you think it made a site you're part of look bad, then you're going about this the wrong and most disprespectful way. There's no need to cast judgement on writers; that's not what this issue is about. We're not interested in starting a war, we're only interested in maintaining integrity of a writer's work, no matter the genre. I'd think that you would be interested in the same thing, no?

It was not my intention to judge, only to remind a pair of your users that respect is a two-way street, and not one that can be paved over with false niceties. If they wanted our help, they should have approached us much more humbly.

Sprite: I would say that I, too, am a generally well-respected and respected member of the community in which I write and publish my stories. Would you like to know the difference between us, though?

I don't need to post pictures of my pussy to get views.

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27 Sep 2011

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A quick message to Dancing Doll and sprite:

I'm not sure why you've decided to rag on the folks at the Literate Union. The administrators of that forum are NOT the administrators of the website, and other than report stories, there is next to nothing they can do about these plagiarized stories. When a plagiarizing author deletes their stories, and they are unable to report said stories, they are, in effect, powerless.

You complained that you'd been waiting three days for a response to your email; I would consider it reasonable to allow the very busy site administrators some time off on the weekend. Yes, it is a fairly big deal that someone stole your stories and biography, but with millions of stories and countless users, you can bet that they get a hundred emails like yours every week. The internet's a big place, after all.

My final point is thus; you were not respectful in the least, so please don't try to claim you were. You came to the forum with complete disregard for the rules, and when you were given advice on how to best solve the problem and pointed to the correct place to introduce yourself, you turned your noses up at the forum's moderators. Your profile picture may be an attractive blonde women, but your entitlement issues are nothing but ugly.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Maybe next time you visit the Literate Union, we'll be able to do something constructive together

Just for reference: this was my post in that forum. I consider this matter as a dead issue. Please refrain from cross-site trolling.

Hi, I am the author whose bio and story was stolen from another site.

I will be happy to introduce myself in the proper thread right after I post this, but just wanted to say in response to Bitter_Sea_Light's post about proving plagiarism. I have the screen shots to prove it before this member deleted the stories themselves. If this will provide the necessary grounds for banning a member, please let me know what email address I should direct the screen shot proofs too. I always take screen shots for legal purposes. I take copyright violation quite seriously as I am also professionally published.

Apologies if SpriteKitty and I are coming across as demanding because that's not our intention. But plagiarism in any form (whether in actual stolen stories or biography) is a serious offence.

Re the bio: it may not seem like a big deal for someone to be impersonating you or stealing a bio, but for someone who has worked hard across all social media sites to brand themselves and build a name it is quite upsetting.

Thanks for your kind responses.

Sincerely,

Ashleigh Lake

Ah, I see how it works now. When you post on another site, it's seeking help, but when I do it, it's trolling. Funny how hypocrisy works, isn't it?

I think you may have forgotten to include the snark-filled posts dismissing the forum's rules. Funny how omission of facts works, isn't it?

Despite claims to the contrary, your position as a published author does not earn you instant respect, and in the future, I would refrain from throwing your titles around like they mean anything. If the opportunity ever arose for you to introduce yourself and your work to the thousands of serious, nonsex-based writers, you would be laughed out of the room.

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27 Sep 2011

A quick message to Dancing Doll and sprite:

I'm not sure why you've decided to rag on the folks at the Literate Union. The administrators of that forum are NOT the administrators of the website, and other than report stories, there is next to nothing they can do about these plagiarized stories. When a plagiarizing author deletes their stories, and they are unable to report said stories, they are, in effect, powerless.

You complained that you'd been waiting three days for a response to your email; I would consider it reasonable to allow the very busy site administrators some time off on the weekend. Yes, it is a fairly big deal that someone stole your stories and biography, but with millions of stories and countless users, you can bet that they get a hundred emails like yours every week. The internet's a big place, after all.

My final point is thus; you were not respectful in the least, so please don't try to claim you were. You came to the forum with complete disregard for the rules, and when you were given advice on how to best solve the problem and pointed to the correct place to introduce yourself, you turned your noses up at the forum's moderators. Your profile picture may be an attractive blonde women, but your entitlement issues are nothing but ugly.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Maybe next time you visit the Literate Union, we'll be able to do something constructive together

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