My article was stolen about 3 times now, is that normal?

Gavin786

Gavin786
ED-related Content being nicked:

So I am looking for current meta on Biotech Conductor farming.

Did my search on DuckDuckGo : "elite dangerous biotech conductors farming"

So I click on a promising guide on the first page "Elite Dangerous – Material Farming in 3.3", and find to my surprise :
https://www.naguide.com/elite-dangerous-material-farming-in-3-3/, https://www.yekbot.com/elite-dangerous-material-farming-in-3-3/ + couple others on other pages(with attribution).

All copies(unattributed to me) of an article/guide I wrote back in January! He/both formatted it all beautifully, too. Mine was text-based only. LOL.

Never had this happen to me before, content nicked like this. Truth is I am more pleased than ed off that someone bothered to like my work enough to nick it.

ALSO, PPL SHOULD KNOW : THIS GUIDE IS OBSOLETE/NEREFD AND NO LOGNER WORKS(unless you are willing to do something very nasty/exploity that I cant recommend or endorse).

Seriously, though, I have plans to create a lot more content in the near future. Is this kind of content plagiarism a normal thing? I can see it being a real problem if it is going to happen a lot.

CMDR Gavin786
 

CMDR Karrde Sun

CMDR Karrde Sun
Reminds me of teenage projects of wanting to make your own website.

If you're a kid and just want a site copying and pasting would be a valid option. The point is that the information is there, not where it came from, if I remember correctly :)
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
Current meta on Biotech Conductor farming...

Either data theft missions or passenger missions for 5 a pop (but obviously those are not hte only mission types that offer them, just hte most efficient imo). Easiest way to get these is to head to somewhere where you are allied with all the factions, perhaps somewhere you spent some time in the early game? Remember the data theft missions do NOT require an SRV contrary to the mission text, you can scan the nodes from your ship for a super fast getaway. :)

As for article theft, in the RC world, yes, I was quite a contributor to the Radio Controlled hobby back in my yoof, and have had entire paid reviews stolen, utterly shamelessly.
 

babelfisch

babelfisch
First (and that's really just my opinion), everything you put openly on the internet should become common property. Personally I would always leave a link to the original creator when I copy something, although I don't necessarily expect it from others. It depends on the effort that went into creating it and how it's used.

In your case it seems like your guide wasn't attributed to anyone, neither you nor the guy who copied it, so I wouldn't lose my mind over it. As you said, take it as a compliment... ;)
 

Gavin786

Gavin786
Aashenfox said:
Current meta on Biotech Conductor farming...

Either data theft missions or passenger missions for 5 a pop (but obviously those are not hte only mission types that offer them, just hte most efficient imo). Easiest way to get these is to head to somewhere where you are allied with all the factions, perhaps somewhere you spent some time in the early game? Remember the data theft missions do NOT require an SRV contrary to the mission text, you can scan the nodes from your ship for a super fast getaway. :)

As for article theft, in the RC world, yes, I was quite a contributor to the Radio Controlled hobby back in my yoof, and have had entire paid reviews stolen, utterly shamelessly.
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Thank you, very helpful.
 

Morbad

Morbad
I get around this by not claiming any control over anything I create and generally not respecting anyone else's abstract claims of control over IP, though I do try to give credit where it's due. Of course, I'm not selling anything either (not even in the sense of click/ad revenue).

If there isn't any credible way for me to enforce a claim, there is no sense in being too attached to the subject of that claim. As the proverb goes, "he who defends everything, defends nothing".

Should it ever becomes a question of who an idea came from, I'll either be able to prove my superior competence in the subject matter than the hack, or I'll be out done and the plagiarist will have aided me by improving on my work. Who came first is far less important to me than what works best.

Sometimes it's handy having stuff I've written ripped off. I once lost all of my house rules for my AD&D campaign (I could have recreated them from memory of course, but as it was for a campaign that had a ten year hiatus, I wanted insight in to my own thoughts at the time), but was able to recover them with a google search because they were posted on a blog I had no idea existed.

Anyway, it's phenomenally difficult to retain control over ideas. Best you can usually do is try to make sure other's can't monetize them too easily by being able to prove you were the originator.
 

Jack Schitt

Jack Schitt
The articles look very similar; I suspect a scrape-bot is searching for and culling material from other blogs, forums, wikis and social media and presenting them as formatted web pages. I've seen a lot of this in recent years. I used to wonder why anyone would bother trying to seek credit for someone else's work, but then I remembered how aggressive my ad-blocking strategy is. As soon as I turned off the blockers, up popped all the ads. It's not about the credit, it's all about monetising (or possibly the malware, sadly). As an experiment I just turned off some of the blockers on one of those sites and immediately got two ads; one for an Elite: Dangerous sale offer and another urging me to vote a certain way if I have strong feelings about the B-word that cannot be spoken of herein. So I guess those profiling cookies are doing their job, when I let them through. ;)

You'll probably struggle to have the content taken down but you could always try adding a comment to each of the pages, explaining that you are the originator and that the guides are out of date. The admin can always remove it, of course, but if it's seen to be driving traffic he or she might leave it up assuming they even check the pages. If it'll let you, link the comment to your profile here or on one of the other many ED-related channels if you have a presence there. You never know, you might even gain a few followers courtesy of someone else's SEO.
 
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