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Has someone ever taken credit for something you did/posted on the internet?

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foxdvd

foxdvd

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I see a lot of gif's that are made on neogaf, and many amazing comments. I wonder if any of you have had your ideas or pictures used on other sites? I recently made a post in the Tomb Raider thread. I was a little angry at the time, and looking back a little hot headed, but many people seemed to like what I said...

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=124977215&highlight=#post124977215

So, I am on reddit today and I find my exact post...not a quote, but someone taking credit for my post. He even argues my points in the thread as if they were his own ideas.

http://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/com...mb_raider_exclusive_to_xbox/cjo15pu?context=3

So anyone else have this happen? Am I being weird for sort of getting pissed off at the guy?
 
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BurnOutBrighter

Banned
This is why I watermark my GIFs and WEBMs.

Not that anyone cares where it comes from, but to stop people passing it off as their own.

I have some friends who make electronic music and plagiarism is a massive problem in their community.
 
SOME-MIST

SOME-MIST

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used to play team fortress classic competitively for 7 years. periodically I would take a break and come back and start playing again. twice I've had other people using my name claiming to be me. one was a kid who lived down the street from me who said he didn't think I was coming back when I caught him on irc.. and he wanted to use my name to get into a good clan.

the 2nd time I had no intention on coming back, but I participated on a tight knit forum with members I used to play with and they notified me that some hacker was ruining my name... so I outed him and he disappeared. I stuck around for a few months and played a bit to make sure he didn't come back, and in the meantime ended up leading a north american team in the 2012 TFC worlds tourney on wireplay haha
 
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Nishastra

Banned
Once upon a time I was an admin of a small community. I did some CG graphics for fun and I had made this character and a bunch of pictures of her that only this little community ever saw.

A few years later, I came across someone using my name and those images. It pretty much had to be someone from that community, but I never found out who.
 
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Five

Banned
This is why I watermark my GIFs and WEBMs.

Not that anyone cares where it comes from, but to stop people passing it off as their own.

I have some friends who make electronic music and plagiarism is a massive problem in their community.
 
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GorillaJu

Member
I've seen a few things I've translated from Japanese to English passed around without credit given. Never bothered me though.

Oh, someone on 4chan actually tried to steal my identity once, posting pictures of me and claiming to be me. That was funny.
 
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CitizenVectron

Member
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YoungHav

Banned
I made a rap related joke thread that spread around to rap message boards. It was rather pathetic to see morons take credit for my jokes.
 
foxdvd

foxdvd

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Abe Bly said:
This is why I watermark my GIFs and WEBMs.

Not that anyone cares where it comes from, but to stop people passing it off as their own.

I have some friends who make electronic music and plagiarism is a massive problem in their community.
Click to expand...

lol
 
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Fracas

#fuckonami
Not exactly, but I remember in like 4th grade we had an assignment to make a brochure for our school. My mom did mine and the school literally copied it and distributed it without asking me or her. They use the logo/slogan she made to this day.
 
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Kieli

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Reddit has this comic where it goes something like:

Person A: You made this.

Person B: Yes, I made this.

*hands to person A, then walks away*

Person A: *stares at it* I[/I] made this.

-----------

I've also seen reposts within the same week where the guy mirrored the image (i.e. vertical flip).

It didn't take me long to dearly miss NeoGAF during my ban. Reddit is terrible.

Edit: Didn't see that the comic was posted above. Derp. =.=
 
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ElTorro

I wanted to dominate the living room. Then I took an ESRAM in the knee.
Some (small, unimportant, one-man-show) gaming website once posted one of my posts as a news story, without citation or anything of that kind.

The post wasn't even that good.
 
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Kieli

Member
Ampersands said:
No, because I don't say or post anything worth repeating
Click to expand...

Same, because I don't say or post anything worth repeating.

@eltorro

Games journalism is pretty terrible in this regard. Journalists plagiarize each other and steal stories all the time with the tinest acknowledgement in super tiny font at the end of the article.
 
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Zeyphersan

Banned
A few years ago a post I made on /r/funny made it to the front page

Then a year later it was reposted. Felt kind of proud, felt kind of angry. Big old mix of emotions
 
MisterHero

MisterHero

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Evilore gets ad revenue from my posts. What do I get? Nothing except a membership to a really cool internet forum!!
 
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Spring-Loaded

Member
What if it's the dude in your avatar, and he's just returning the favor, OP?

I've only had this happen with a fake story I wrote, and something I can't post here, nothing I care about, thankfully. I want someone else to make a funeral home strip club though, I have no desire to do that myself.
 
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Rayis

Member
One time I sang a cover of an anime song on Youtube and someone took it, pitched it up and said it was Rukia from Bleach singing it, I wasn't mad though, I was really flattered someone liked a cover of mine to do something dumb like that.
 
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Jaeger

Member
Spritework and forum avatar/signature graphics back in the day. Jokes/memes, and post here and there today.
 
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smurfx

get some go again
seeing gifs i make made on other sites makes me happy. recently one of the gifs i made inspired somebody on youtube to make a video based on my gif and it has over 70k views.
 
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Poona

Member
I took a photo and uploaded it to instagram. Next day after searching through some of the hashtags I put on it I found someone else reposted the pic and was acting like they had taken the photo. I commented on it, and they then blocked me.
 
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PaulExcellent

Member
Some kid in my school "stole" a character design I was using for a school project. I called him out and he got so upset because girls really liked it and he told them it was his.

What a douche.
 
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demon

I don't mean to alarm you but you have dogs on your face
Oh wait I have a real one.

Way back in my xbox fanboy days in college (*groan*), I ran the website xboxpix.com. This was around 2001-2003 I searched the internet high and low for screenshots of upcoming xbox games, even came across some that weren't even officially released yet somehow, and dare I saw it probably was the best collection of Xbox screenshots on the internet. One day I was notified by someone that some Japanese gaming news website was posting images from my website on their front page- actually using the urls for the screenshots on my website.

Wrong move.

I changed the images to pictures of gay porn and shit like that. For a good several hours the front page of this japanese gaming website had pictures of dudes sucking each other's dicks. I stayed up all night periodically checking the website, astounded that it hadn't been noticed/changed yet, laughing my ass off.
 
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Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
My friend posted a picture of her cat holding up a knife to her dog and I saw it go viral, it was weird.
 
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Oozer3993

Member
It's kinda/sorta happened a couple times to me. I don't really care all that much though because it's just a couple minor things.

* The music rips I did of the Destiny Alpha and Beta were both posted to YouTube without attribution.
* Kanye remixed the Mission Impossible theme for M:I:III and it was, for some reason, only available on Yahoo radio. And you had to wait for it to come up in the playlist. I ripped it and posted online somewhere. A couple days later it popped up on Ain't It Cool News with nary a mention of me.
 
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Zapages

Member
Yes, prince of persia and the whole Ubisoft' s Osiris images and trailer here on neogaf. I couldn't make a thread aka junior membe. Argh..r. So I sent the images and everything to wario64.


On a more serious note Ubisoft stole and are using the name of my website for prince of persia without getting back to me about a new host as they promised. Site name was prince of persia legacy.
 
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LProtag

Member
I said something in the chat during TwitchPlaysPokemon and someone posted a screen shot of it to reddit and got 500 or so upvotes.

Not really that big of a deal, but it's the only case where something like this has happened to me.
 
terrisus

terrisus

Member
I've had a couple of guides/walkthroughs/FAQs I've written used on websites I didn't give permission to use them, with and without credit.

Various pictures from my website have also been used in a variety of places, but that's fine since I never said they couldn't be.

Probably some other stuff too, but those are the ones that come to mind.
 
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Ayumi

Member
My favorite is that time a complete stranger messaged me on a community I moderate users on, to tell me someone was using my photos and name to pass as me and trying to catfish him. Turns put the copycat was actually a male friend of mine (hi Jay, stalker) who even went as far as finding random underwear pics online (that didn't even match up with my body in the original photos) to send the guy.

Don't do that stuff. It's creepy. (・∀・)
 
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