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I tracked down my impostor

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Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by baud147258 »

kfoley wrote: post #6

Reminds me of something I experienced on HN and Reddit, though my case was a far less significant level. I posted a comment on HN in response to some article about Emacs. Later that day I saw someone had copied my comment word for word in reply to the same article on Reddit. I still have no idea why someone would do that. I thought at first it was some kind of karma farming operation but the post history of the Reddi…

I remember someone telling how his Steam review was copied verbatim... Maybe it was for the 'awards' users can get on their reviews?

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by ksm1717 »

irscott wrote: post #108
luckylion wrote: post #73

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That's what I was thinking. The picture reminded me of that one story about a Hipster going after some website over an article claiming all Hipster look alike that he found used his picture without permission ... only to find out that it wasn't him. From the pictures of him and his colleague it seems that the people who study tattoos are into getting tattoos as well, I find it absolutely plausible that the guy got th…

He had both a flower on his hand and the letters tattooed on his knuckles. Know More isn't a particularly common knuckle tattoo and to also have the same style of flower on the hand is definitely suspect. Even that type of flower as a hand tattoo isn't very common.

Agreed. Given every single other (less specific) detail that was copied, yea... right the tattoos were probably a coincidence.

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by zck »

brandonmenc wrote: post #119
autophagian wrote: post #19

For the curious: this emerged as a twitter thread back in Jan https://twitter.com/mattlodder/status/1350192856154198016 . In it, Dr. Lodder posts a comparison between his tattoos and his imposters, as well as a talk his imposter gave based on his work, while dressed as him. Creepy.

> a comparison between his tattoos and his imposters There is nothing very special or original about his tattoos. Just about everyone has tattoos that look like this nowadays. Anyone can walk in and select these out of a flash book. This is like complaining that someone is wearing the same t-shirt. Yes, I realize the imposter is mimicking other aspects of his personality, but I see a dozen copies of this guy walking…

The tattoos weren't a coincidence. The imposter was specifically impersonating him. The imposter went so far as to get the _same exact words_ tattooed on both hands.

The dedication to impersonating Dr. Lodder is why it's concerning. The imposter wasn't just submitting Lodder's work as his own; he _permanently altered his body_ to appear more like Lodder.

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by Kpourdeilami »

tinus_hn wrote: post #113
whatshisface wrote: post #98

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Reminds me of something I experienced on HN and Reddit, though my case was a far less significant level. There was a Reddit bot a few years ago (aptly named 'trappedinreddit') that would automatically post the previous top comment on reposts. I bet it was Reddit internal bots. That process is an order of magnitude faster on Reddit than control-v.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26605151 Is this some bizarre coincidence?

OP is just trying to be funny but it seems like it confused a lot of people

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by lupire »

cammikebrown wrote: post #123
worker767424 wrote: post #84

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> in the US it is 90-100 In a science or engineering class, it might be everything above 40%.

I really did not enjoy getting 40% on every test in math and physics and receiving a B. I do not feel like I learned the material that well. My very first freshman mechanics midterm grade, a 67, was an A+, and gave me a false sense of adequacy. Maybe they could figure out how to teach better?

You aren't supposed to learn everything in one semester. You are supposed to make adequate progress, and the tests are broad enough to catch as much as possible of what you've learned.

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by irscott »

luckylion wrote: post #124
irscott wrote: post #108

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He had both a flower on his hand and the letters tattooed on his knuckles. Know More isn't a particularly common knuckle tattoo and to also have the same style of flower on the hand is definitely suspect. Even that type of flower as a hand tattoo isn't very common.

I wouldn't know how common it is, it just looked somewhat cliche to me, so I figured it wouldn't be rare. Like stickers on a mac book. Somebody should create a registry where people can lay claim to their tattoo's originality. Add blockchain, call it TATS, instant hit.

Shit, make em NFTs and make a fortune.

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by smogcutter »

ksaj wrote: post #101
Veen wrote: post #61

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My partner finds it frustrating that she has to edit out “false positives” even when she knows damn well she hasn’t plagiarised.

Editors have to do that already, so if she doesn't have an editor, it probably is her job. In High School, I did a (very) short co-op copyrighting for a radio station. At the time I thought it was pretty ridiculous that I had to basically reword everything to mean the same thing, but differently. As a grown-up and seeing the same stories in different papers struck me as ultra-lazy, and then I realized why all that co…

“Copywriting”, just fyi in case it’s one of those “word I hear but rarely see written” things and not autocorrect.

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by disabled »

longshui wrote: post #127
Veen wrote: post #111

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> Regardless, these people tend to masquerade as "entrepreneurs", "researchers", "thinkers", "doers", or as "authors" And activists.

when it is in a circle where the people know more or less who is who, its unlikely to happen any masquerading sometimes there are misunderstandings and some in the circle may have the impression that there is some masquerading going on sooner or later, I guess, things naturally clarify as time flows and the views are prettier

It is not a figment of my imagination: There were things going on besides multiple forms of outright plagiarism within several submissions. Because there are often multiple forms of plagiarism occurring in the same submission, once you catch it, it's pretty clear cut that it was deliberate. It is not only in writing but at actual conferences when she gives speeches.

The individual I mention is known to wear a custom "code t-shirt" of the program (aka "product") that she claims to be her original work, to conferences and meetups. The t-shirt along with the code itself has the /exact same specific variable names/ that I provided via email to a colleague years ago. She is also seen wearing this t-shirt in several media publications. She also publishes "research" based on this "work" in peer-reviewed journal articles. It really is quite disgusting.

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by anamexis »

TwoBit wrote: post #115
anamexis wrote: post #112

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I had an run-in with a plagiarism checker in undergrad (USA, 2008). A professor ran a research paper I had submitted through a plagiarism checker and it came back a 100% match. (I had researched and written the paper myself.) It led to a very awkward meeting which started with him saying "I think we both know why you're here" and me having no idea why I was there. Luckily it ended with him resubmitting the paper to t…

What was the cause of the false positive?

I can only theorize. Perhaps due to some error, the web upload submitted a 0 byte file which perfectly matched another 0 byte file.
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