Plagiarism - Comments

I had one of my stories plagiarized in the second way but every chapter was exactly the same. The character names were so similar that it was impossible to just be a coincidence and they kept the same name of the story. I had multiple readers point it out to me actually. And after I found out, I lost all passion to write for awhile because it I couldn't understand how someone could discredit me in that way and I was worried that it would keep happening.

The story got deleted after awhile but the "author" is still on Mibba and created another story with the same name just out of spite.

I still get nervous about it happening to this day, but I have no idea how to find these people. My readers did last time.

& hey, could you message me the two stories? I'd like to take a look at them and see what's going on. Since someone stole mine, I have an interest in this kind of thing.

@ castiel's vessel
The second one is really tricky to identify, and I saw it today as well. I could see the similarities, and it was a bit weird because they were very alike. As I went into the actual first chapter after the prologue, they went off into separate branches, though they were relatively still very alike. I don't know if it was plagiarism. It could really be a very convenient coincidence.

@ Ada.
I've never understood plagiarism, and I've never understood why people did it. If you really want to take pride in something, then you should do something that you worked on instead of taking someone else's work.

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I don't see the point of plagiarism, though. Yes, you get readers to comment and commend you because they think you're the writer, but you know that you aren't. You plagiarizers know you aren't the writer, and you didn't put any talent or work into it 'cept for a few words/sentences. How can you get pride from that if you didn't put your heart and soul into it?

EXACTLY. I don't understand how anyone can feel satisfaction and a sense of achivement when it's not their own work. It's just so god damn pointless.

"That's what writing is. It's putting your heart and soul into something you've created."

This. Writing is exactly this. The plagiarism business is tricky, especially the possible example I saw today. The second type that you defined is really tricky because sometimes there's nothing concrete to provide other than "It's my work" because it's altered in such a way that it is hard to realise. I saw the second example today and honestly, I couldn't say if it is or isn't actual plagiarism because there are similarities, I agree, but nothing word for word which is normally easy to say about. For all I know, it could be a coincidence. A really convenient one but one all the same.