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This is straight-up plagiarism. I've seen this article before, and there's no attribution. He even claims that this list is based on his own life experience! Re

by rcfox 15y ago

This is straight-up plagiarism. I've seen this article before, and there's no attribution. He even claims that this list is based on his own life experience! Repugnant. However, in trying to find the original source, I've found that there are many other people also content to plagiarize this exact article: http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Introverts+are+perfectly+comfortable+with+their+own+thoughts.+They+think+a+lot.+They+daydream.%22 http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Introverts+are+perfectly+co... Does anyone know who originally wrote this so that we can at least give them credit here on Hacker News?

beefman 15y ago
I've seen it before too, but googling now returns several sources attributing it to this Carl King fellow (and this URL).
simcop2387 15y ago
Looks like it might be http://jerrybrito.org/post/6114304704/top-ten-myths-about-introverts http://jerrybrito.org/post/6114304704/top-ten-myths-about-in... but i could also still have it wrong.
- patrickyeon 15y ago
  Sorry, top of the sidebar: "via dearfox" (who has it via ohohmydarlin (who has it either from pewells or hey-lovers (who are both 404'd))) Down the tumblr rabbit-hole!
  - jonah 15y ago
    I dislike unattributed material or posting write-ups which aren't the original writeup or at least contribute meaningful criticism or analysis. So, I apologize if this is indeed such an item.
patrickyeon 15y ago
FWIW, I spent a few minutes picking up arbitrary links from that search, and following the "via" or "source" links. Some chains dead-ended in a 404, a few were on blogs that looked at first glance to lift a whole lot of stuff without attribution, and the rest all filtered back to this article. That was just a small subset of the hits, but at first glance this may be the original here. On a tangent, I've always thought it'd be neat to see a DAG drawn out for items like this as they get copied, referenced, linked, and commented on throughout various blogs, social networks, and whatnot. Is anybody working on this?
billpatrianakos 15y ago
I do not know but I also remember reading this word for word! It really is blatant plagiarism. I think the intro paragraph was different (or maybe not) but everything after that was verbatim including the title.
tzury 15y ago
yep, same feelings, this one is from April 2011 http://www.myspace.com/heathengoddes/blog/542781609 http://www.myspace.com/heathengoddes/blog/542781609 the earliest one I found by quick googling
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by rcfox 15y ago

beefman 15y ago

I've seen it before too, but googling now returns several sources attributing it to this Carl King fellow (and this URL).

simcop2387 15y ago

Looks like it might be http://jerrybrito.org/post/6114304704/top-ten-myths-about-introverts http://jerrybrito.org/post/6114304704/top-ten-myths-about-in... but i could also still have it wrong.

patrickyeon 15y ago
Sorry, top of the sidebar: "via dearfox" (who has it via ohohmydarlin (who has it either from pewells or hey-lovers (who are both 404'd))) Down the tumblr rabbit-hole!
- jonah 15y ago
  I dislike unattributed material or posting write-ups which aren't the original writeup or at least contribute meaningful criticism or analysis. So, I apologize if this is indeed such an item.

patrickyeon 15y ago

FWIW, I spent a few minutes picking up arbitrary links from that search, and following the "via" or "source" links. Some chains dead-ended in a 404, a few were on blogs that looked at first glance to lift a whole lot of stuff without attribution, and the rest all filtered back to this article. That was just a small subset of the hits, but at first glance this may be the original here. On a tangent, I've always thought it'd be neat to see a DAG drawn out for items like this as they get copied, referenced, linked, and commented on throughout various blogs, social networks, and whatnot. Is anybody working on this?

billpatrianakos 15y ago

I do not know but I also remember reading this word for word! It really is blatant plagiarism. I think the intro paragraph was different (or maybe not) but everything after that was verbatim including the title.

tzury 15y ago

yep, same feelings, this one is from April 2011 http://www.myspace.com/heathengoddes/blog/542781609 http://www.myspace.com/heathengoddes/blog/542781609 the earliest one I found by quick googling

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