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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 UShouldBWorking »

xenonite wrote: post #28
dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #21

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…

Well: 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…

This is definitely the kind of content I wouldn't be surprised to read on reddit, but a bit disappointing to see it on HN

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by easton »

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 once found a link on reddit that I had posted on HN, and in it, several people had word for word copied comments from the HN thread without attribution. I presumed it was karma farming too, since they had gotten a lot of upvotes but not a lot of responses. reddit's anti-evil team didn't though, so I guess it was just people that wanted to "retweet".

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by jonnat »

chrisseaton wrote: post #26

> Some of the work should have been spotted by plagiarism checkers I've been in postgraduate academia and industry, and been involved in multiple conferences at different levels. I'm not aware of anyone ever running a plagiarism detector on any submitted work at all. Do other people do this? Should the people I work with have been doing it?

My daughter is in 5th grade, attending school virtually due to the pandemic, and she has all her submitted assignments automatically verified by plagiarism checkers. In fact, she's encouraged to use online plagiarism checkers herself before submission to avoid false positives.

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by nchelluri »

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.

Interesting how the test score is 80% in the twitter thread and 95% in the article.

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by nchelluri »

jancsika wrote: post #30
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 still have no idea why someone would do that. It's a fundamental way to learn. E.g., suppose people tell me I'm a real funny person. Let me test that. 1. I remember a joke from a professional funny person widely considered to be one of the best. 2. I tell that joke to the people who told me I'm a real funny person. 3. I measure the laughter I get. If the laughter is different-- e.g., if the people tell me this is…

I understand what you are saying about copying someone to learn. I'm just not sure I agree it applies to digital media or bits especially in the exact same context (in response to the same article).

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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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…

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Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by kvirani »

mahalol wrote: post #33
xenonite wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well: 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…

Well, this is definitely the kind of content I wouldn't be surprised to read on reddit, but a bit disappointing to see it on HN.

I just did the same thing (out of laziness of course) and then saw this great point. Deleted mine.

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by Veen »

chrisseaton wrote: post #26

> Some of the work should have been spotted by plagiarism checkers I've been in postgraduate academia and industry, and been involved in multiple conferences at different levels. I'm not aware of anyone ever running a plagiarism detector on any submitted work at all. Do other people do this? Should the people I work with have been doing it?

I know it's common for undergrad work in the UK. I don't know about post-grad.

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by dylan604 »

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…

Could it be an attempt to at legitimacy to fake accounts so they seem less fake on cursory glances? Using these accounts to support that the profile they are really trying to use is not fake?

Re: I tracked down my impostor

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Post by zwayhowder »

chrisseaton wrote: post #26

> Some of the work should have been spotted by plagiarism checkers I've been in postgraduate academia and industry, and been involved in multiple conferences at different levels. I'm not aware of anyone ever running a plagiarism detector on any submitted work at all. Do other people do this? Should the people I work with have been doing it?

It is pretty normal for most universities to require all assignments be submitted via TurnItIn or a similar tool that can do aggregated plagiarism checks not just against published articles but also assignments submitted by other students.

But it doesn't apply to conference papers as far as I know or journal articles either. (As in when submitting to a journal for publication).

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