Reply To: JimB plagiarizing old stories again

[unomine]

I appreciate the the inclination toward charity and caution. But whomever is posting as JimB has made a habit of plagiarizing old stories and claiming them under their copyright. I think at this point, if they post a story the smart bet is that it’s stolen from an older site. Some of the stories they post were written by the original JimB*, but many of them were written by different authors on the old archives.

In this particular case, “Sarah’s unexpected trip to the barbershop” was written by Shavedgurl in 2003, despite JimB labeling it “By JimB ©opyright October 2018”

https://tinyurl.com/2hknktnt (Have to use a tinyurl for the comment to post)

The blogspot post is also plagiarizing the original author.

At this point, I mostly try to ignore their posts. But it does irk me that they’re allowed to continue posting after repeated incidents of plagiarism spanning several years. I guess the brightside, is that once you’ve identified a plagiarist, it’s pretty easy to just ignore any posts by that username.

*I suspect the current JimB is a different person than the original JimB. It seems odd (and highly disrespectful) for somebody who wrote dozens of stories decades ago to suddenly start plagiarizing other peoples’ stories. But I could be wrong.