troydavis

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by troydavis 2y ago
https://www.geekynews.org/0222blog says “Updated: December 11 2022 17:52” and is stolen word for word from https://www.ihg.com/crowneplaza/hotels/us/en/dublin/dblbl/ho... If yo
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by troydavis 2y ago
This whole site reads like LLM-generated garbage. The domain was registered a week ago, yet it has random pages dated 2022: https://www.geekynews.org/0222blog And… that page is plagiarized from https://www.ihg.co
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by troydavis 2y ago
You’re welcome, and thanks for saying so. I wish it wasn’t needed.
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by troydavis 2y ago
The points you make are true, but all of the plagiarism I've commented about recently has been done by one person. It stretches across many Substack and Wordpress accounts. I imagine they have plagiarized plenty more posts that no one
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by troydavis 2y ago
This is plagiarized word for word from https://web.archive.org/web/20150210200039/http://kalihawlk.... (original URL: http://kalihawlk.com/not-having-kids/ ) For more on this plagia
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by troydavis 2y ago
Mohamed deleted the plagiarized posts after reading my comment, so here are links to the plagiarized posts saved on Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20240427052426/https://mamddoh.wo... http
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by troydavis 2y ago
This seems to be the same plagiarizer who I found earlier this week. They're stealing other people's blog posts, then creating new blogs with the plagiarized posts. I wrote about it here yesterday: https://news.ycombina
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by troydavis 2y ago
Good luck! Feel free to submit a Show HN when you’ve made something that people can try out ( https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html ). While you’re thinking, this might be a decent place to start: https://paulg
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by troydavis 2y ago
Update: the Substack profile and blog have been deleted, either by the plagiarizer/scammer who saw these comments or by Substack. The article itself is still online (even though the index page and profile are gone), though I assume it
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by troydavis 2y ago
Profile creation date is in the profile metadata. View source on https://substack.com/@michaeldehaan and find for: profile_set_up_at The Instagram link is not the real author, it's just some random person with the same
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by troydavis 2y ago
I did that. "Impersonation" is usually posting something with someone else's name, though. This is way past that, though - Substack that allows people to reuse hostnames + URL slugs, and put back-dated posts on them, so the e
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by troydavis 2y ago
Dan, how about changing the title and URL on this submission, so it's about the plagiarism and not linking to the (stolen/impersonated) content? If you want to link to the real submission, it's available on Internet Archive (
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by troydavis 2y ago
More discussion happening here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168052#40168606
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by troydavis 2y ago
This is pretty insane. Here's the plagiarizer's new Substack profile: https://substack.com/@michaeldehaan - the profile was created 2024-04-26. That's not the actual author, it's someone stealing Michael
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by troydavis 2y ago
This Substack appears to be stolen - by re-creating a Substack hostname that the original author has deleted, then re-publishing the articles with back-dated dates. This Substack plagiarism scammer is getting even more creative. They appear
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Here's what an organized Substack / HN plagiarism campaign looks like
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by troydavis 2y ago
(Discussion continues here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164077 ) This post was stolen from https://web.archive.org/web/20110416092916/https://jinfiesto... OP is plagiarizing bl
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by troydavis 2y ago
Mohamed, how many alt accounts do you have? Obviously a lot :-)
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by troydavis 2y ago
This is stolen from a 2011 blog post: https://www.pixelstech.net/article/1319626773-The-Failure-of... Hey Substack, you've got someone creating new blogs to re-publish plagiarized posts. https://news.yc
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by troydavis 2y ago
I grew 30 heirloom tomato plants to give away to friends and family. They're world-class seed varieties that aren't available through nurseries/retail[1]. I grew them indoors under grow lights[2]. After giving most away, I ha
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by troydavis 2y ago
Just a guess: a teenager who learned to script and thought this was novel. This isn't an organized marketing campaign, it's a DoS with some links for amusement. Other than the volume, it's not even script kiddie level. Presum
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by troydavis 2y ago
That’s possible, and is why the providers investigate (using the account history that we don’t have access to). Often, other customer data - or a 5 minute phone call - is enough for the provider to tell the difference.
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by troydavis 2y ago
Yup. The site being advertised is proxied through Cloudflare, and they're also using Supabase. Anyone from Cloudflare or Supabase care to remove your abusive customer? Also reported.
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by troydavis 2y ago
How about a public Airtable or Google Sheets document? If you want a standalone site, embed that document in your static site. Visitors can view and do basic operations on your site, and you can link to the document on Airtable or Sheets so
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by troydavis 2y ago
Start a tiny business, no matter what it is. Sell stuff you make on Etsy, spend a weekend writing a tiny e-book about a topic you know well and publish it for $5, whatever - literally anything that requires you to define a product and then
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by troydavis 2y ago
This post is stolen from a different blog back in 2013: http://web.archive.org/web/20130305164549/http://www.alexmed... Anyone at Substack around to shut down this blog?
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by troydavis 2y ago
The submitter is promoting their site, so this shouldn’t have been vouched for. I agree with nkurz's assessment that the system is working as designed. Also, after it was vouched for, the submitter posted or requested comments from soc
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by troydavis 2y ago
Yup, with multiple alt accounts and domains: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=playstationcouch.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=chat-to.dev https://news.ycombinator.com/from?
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by troydavis 3y ago
> P.S If this gets flagged, I'll make another one, and another, until one of the mods notices. > This is version 3.0. Previous versions below: You can be obnoxious or entitled, but if you're this obnoxious and this entitled,
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by troydavis 3y ago
The RSS URL you pasted is now working.

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