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Wikipedia defines plagiarism as: "the wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or
by siruva07 16y ago
Wikipedia defines plagiarism as: "the wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions, and the representation of them as one's own original work"
it doesn't have to be verbatim. even if she got some bit of inspiration from me, when in doubt she should source her story.
i agree that i can't really do anything, which is why I'm asking HN...
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoI get that it doesn't have to be verbatim, but it seems pretty vague to me. I think you're wasting your time. What outcome do you really want here? Why did you write the post in the first place?
- siruva07 16y agoThe fact is she presented the ideas as her own...and since it was covered on SAI, and I sent the blog post to them as well, asking if they would like me to provide the excel doc, they were definitely aware of the article. I'm not trying to burn Alexia, Arrington, or TC, but I think she conveyed my ideas as her own, and would think she'd source her idea... I wrote the article as my own analysis of the Gap Groupon campaign because I'm fascinated with local commerce (last website I built was a local events finder -- deadpooled, but http://www.prximity.com http://www.prximity.com)
- mikeryan 16y agoThe generally accepted definition of plagiarism is Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V Even if they recycled your "idea" they didn't do it consistently enough to constitute plagiarism en masse and your basic idea isn't unique enough to really warrant attribution.
- siruva07 16y agofalse. seriously read the wikipedia entry.