plagiarism - okay, this is just sad

From musesfool here, kittystrife is wholesale reposting and taking credit for episode reviews, meta, and--in a weird turn of events--personal posts. I'm going to go on a limb and assume her loyal commenter is maybe like, not a person herself.

Also posted to Fandom Wank, so toddle there for more details. And boggling. Apparently she like, edited Aja's post for profanity before posting it? *frowns* The ways of the wild plagiarist are unknown to me.

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[scrollgirl]

That's just... bizarre. Maybe she feels she isn't getting the attention she deserves?

[tzikeh]

But... what kind of attention does she feel she's not getting, if *all* of her posts are stolen from others, right from the start... I... does not compute.

I have o.O face.

[seperis]

*hands* She made herself a nice little sycophant to help with that?

[celli]

this does not compute on, like, any possible level.

[seperis]

I like how she edited for profanity though. Just to give it that extra wtf spice.

[mecurtin]

I'm sittin' here, munching virtual popcorn and betting on "It Was An Experiment for My Sociology Class LOL".

[musesfool]

*nods*

That's where my money is.

[seperis]

Thirded. Though I do like the addition of a syncophant to tell her how marvelous she is. It's always nice to see obv sockpuppet is obv.

[mecurtin]

In fact ... her profile & email addy pointed to Appalachian State University, which has an Internet Studies Program. Place your bets on what course it's for.

Could someone stick this info in the comments over on f-w? I don't have an account there and I'm lazy.

[seperis]

Could we email the entire internet committee listed there and have them instruct their students on ethics or at least a crash course on being less stupid? That would make me happy.

[scrollgirl]

kittystrife's profile is also copied from apocalypsos, so I doubt she really attends Appalachian State University.

[mecurtin]

But apocalypsos doesn't attend Appstate, nor did kittystrife copy her education affilizations.

[scrollgirl]

Ah, gotcha. Hmm, then that could be real info, though I don't preclude the possibility she copied her university/education affiliations from yet another LJer.

[ratcreature]

She seems to have deleted it now...

[swordage]

Appalachian State is also the school on her MySpace and Facebook, so I'd say it's real. The sockpuppet commenter seems to be her boyfriend - its icon is the same as his FB pic.

SO WEIRD. I cannot begin to understand - but thank you for the F_W link, I found a friend's post tucked way back in her entries.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

It's just *weird*. Like, WHAT IS THE POINT? Also LOLarious to me, her LJ is linked to a real-looking facebook account. Like... WTF.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Kids these days with their inability to distinguish fantasy from reality--or like, write their own posts.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

IDEK.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but the user name is giving me vague X-Men wonderings.

[ziarenete13x.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that was an image I didn't need, thank you.

[verizonhorizon.livejournal.com]

It sounds like maybe the person who has taken it this far has a mental health problem. I knew a girl who lied about having cancer when another girl was going through chemo, and when the whole thing came out, it was really just unfathomable. Not that it excuses anything, but apparently it wasn't malicious but was a symptom of her own mental struggles. Or something. Anyway, people do crazy things...and sometimes they're really, well, crazy.

[antychan.livejournal.com]

There also was a chick in the house fandom who pretended to need a cane herself.

And somebody in the Prison Break fandom who told stories like a dark-haired lawyer named Veronica (like one of the main characters) worked at her firm and she talked about having had threesomes JUST when OT3 fic was popular. Later, when Perez blogged about Wentworth Miller being gay, she claimed she knew somebody at Fox Australia who had inside scoop on Wentworth's sexuality. I got trolled by her once...man, I need to find that LOLtastic post.

[eyra.livejournal.com]

Um. Wow.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Just so weird!

[aivilo-18.livejournal.com]

Wow. How very "Lessons in Fail".

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I am still loving her long comment-converstion with her sockpuppet. That's adorable.

[digitalwave]

Looks like it didn't take her long to slink away once she was caught out.

Although, I have to say, stealing a meta on plagiarism and claiming it as your own, pretty much has to be the height of irony.

*shakes head*

[seperis.livejournal.com]

God, I didn't even think of that bit. *giggling* Yes, yes it is.

[nianeyna.livejournal.com]

That is so bizarre. It reminds me of the time I found a blogspot entry that looked liked someone had run my merlin recs post through a translator into some other language and then back to English. Like, all the same links, with the same descriptions, only the grammar was terrible and weird. It was like I had stepped through a funhouse mirror into crazyland. Some people. I just... why? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.