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RE: 🚨 Someone Stole My Writing Here and Reposted It Elsewhere 🚨

in Freewriters4 days ago

I know you are sorry... It is a disappointing thing and it makes us very helpless. It happened to me once, a little over a year ago, and it was also at Hive.

At that time I was publishing in the extinct Taringa, it was good, but it lasted very little. There were good content creators and many, of the few of us who are left, are scattered between Steemit and Hive.

I'll tell you what happened: I wrote a reflection on the path of life and our legacy, inspired by the death of someone close to us. Many liked it, among whom there was a person with whom I had a lot of interaction, but someone who had joined in the last stage of that Social Network. After the closing of Taringa, I met Steemit, I already had an account in Hive, which I didn't use, because I didn't understand it. However, with everything I learned in my beginnings in Steemit, I decided to check again Hive and make some publications in a community called Reflections, my surprise is that there I find her, the user. I was encouraged, I read her new posts and I decided to review some of the old ones. My surprise was that there was my writing, slightly modified, but it was my writing, and it is something that we know just by seeing it and reading some lines, because we, the writers put part of us in those lines, our essence, and sometimes our soul. It's sad and upsetting, but just look ahead.... I'm sure that after being discovered the future of that user there will be very compromised.

At least you had to check it, I only had my notes, since what was on Taringa was lost, so I didn't even try to expose it.

I consider what you have done to be very brave.

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Stories like yours are very personal, especially when they're inspired by someone so close. For sure, you'll recognize that right away, unless it's a very general or technical post where some terms are used repeatedly; then you might give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm sorry that it happened to you too. These kinds of things are rampant, especially when there's a monetary motive involved. People don't hesitate to do such things.

For me, after I've cooled down, I'm feeling a little worried. I may have been too rushed to claim back my story because I didn't want to be accused of plagiarizing—that was my first thought. I may have exposed that profile, but we'll never truly know who that person is. I just hope they won't retaliate against me.