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"Submitting Plagiarized Reviews"

I noticed that people started to win GAD for someone else's work. Now if you want to submit a review that is not yours, can we make it a rule to not post it? Because it causes too much confusion, and if somebody wanted to read that review, they'd look on Google themselves. If you go ahead and trample over this rule, they should get the dreaded ban. Because frankly, there are people who wrote there own reviews or guides deserve to win.

Can we at least take this into consideration?

Ladybird wrote:
> Ninja_Reborn wrote:
> I don't think we have enough admins active here. Or even people
> who have the authority to ban.
>
> We need to find out who chooses these people to win, I just
> don't get it...
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> I've inquired who awards GAD, because some post that have been
> awarded are simply ridiculous. I think Vexxxed came forward. I
> wonder where he is now..
>
> It's like the Freeola admin are pressured to award GAD daily and
> just award based on posts that appear long and drawn-out as some
> indicator that the content is quality and genuine work.
>
> I believe the former SR used to ban individuals for plagerism.
> I say we continue that rule, because obviously people like Dan
> just don't get it. The fact that Freeola keeps awarding him
> makes them look like sheer idiots time and again.

No, they are not forced. They just can be asked. So they just don't care and award to anyone.

Ninja_Reborn wrote:
> No, they are not forced. They just can be asked. So they just
> don't care and award to anyone.

You know this? Who is "they" then?? By golly, I think you will have answered your own inquiry. :)

What a bunch of drama queens. :)

Grow up Garin. You're one of the fist to make a big fuss about something like this. Try and be a little more mature and keep your stupid "drama queen" comments to yourself. It serves no purpose but to annoy others.

As far as I'm concerned, this situation has come to a conclusion. Hopefully someone at Freeola will award the GAD to someone else, perhaps even the original creator of the review.

Yes I'll grow up.....must act older...more mature...more like Machie....

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No sorry, I cant do it. I get points for trying though, right? :P

Dear me, people do seem to be getting worked up about this one.

I think the point's been made, we don't like plagiarism (what an odd word, a z instead of an s in every instance but that...)

Anyway, who cares? If anyone 'ought to be angry, it's the original source of the writing.

Machie wrote:
> Grow up Garin. You're one of the fist to make a big fuss about
> something like this. Try and be a little more mature and keep
> your stupid "drama queen" comments to yourself. It
> serves no purpose but to annoy others.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, this situation has come to a
> conclusion. Hopefully someone at Freeola will award the GAD to
> someone else, perhaps even the original creator of the review.


I agree, he was always the first and last to moan when I won them.
Chaos I think the people get annoyed because they spend an hour writing a review and some one wins the GAD for a C&P from IGN.

Just to let you guys know even when it is highlighted to the freeola staff they still send out the GADS. Both the GADs I won for supposidly plagerised reviews I recieved.
This is inspite of me sending an email and a post saying they should cancel it because of the hassel i was getting from the forums. Dont hold your breath they resind his.

I recon the tactic is to stop posting reviews until they actually read them to decide on their legitimacy.

Why isn't Dan_JC banned yet? He has so many copied walkthroughs. It's like no one examines them.

DoomBaboon1982 wrote:
> Both the GADs I won for supposidly plagerised reviews I recieved.

They weren't 'supposedly' copied, they were copied, full stop.

I'm getting a headache from all this tension!