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I'm sorry, what? You mention 150 clones, they say 800. You mention 100k people in reference to one particular occasion at one particular school. They mention 5
by DanielStraight 16y ago
I'm sorry, what?
You mention 150 clones, they say 800. You mention 100k people in reference to one particular occasion at one particular school. They mention 50k people and don't mention the same occasion, even though they mention the same school. They mention a mob mentality, the closest you have is "flash-mob deals," whatever that means. You mention the importance of a vibrant college town, they say nothing of the sort. You talk about other services likely to pop up. They focus just on Campus Dibs. They mention alumni, you don't.
What exactly do you feel they plagiarized? I don't see a single similar element between the quotes you gave except overall topic.
- siruva07 16y agoFor example, I wrote: These are places where populations can change dramatically (think Game Day at Penn State when 100,000+ people come to see a football game) and could take flash-mob deals to a whole new level. Look out for daily deals on campus at schools with large student bodies and a vibrant college town" She basically changed "populations can change dramatically" and "large student bodies" to "fanatical" and vibrant to "hopping"...not to mention almost the exact same list of college towns + her alma mater
- nollidge 16y agoBut these ideas could easily be reached independently. It seems to me that anyone who sat and thought about how a campus-based Groupon clone could succeed would follow this line of thought. Just because bats can fly doesn't mean they evolved from birds.
- cakeface 16y agoI agree. I definitely don't see any basis for claiming that this article was plagiarized. TC wrote a similar article with similar points, that doesn't mean that they stole from you.