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PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:00 am 
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AOL thinks its perfectly fine. Unbelievable...

http://www.cracked.com/forums/topic/82154/aol-steals-from-cracked/0


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:31 am 
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A single article was plagiarized? Seems like an AOL writer just didn't know what he was doing.


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:48 pm 
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Same list, same research links, she just copied and pasted and switched the order, and split one entry to get 7 instead of 6. Then she rephrased some of it so she wouldn't get caught -- but still preserved some of our jokes and at least one of our typos.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/forums/topic/821 ... z1EiOIhbet


I don't think it was accidental, and I after only two classes I don't know how someone could go through four years of college and not get the concept.

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Reading through the thread looks like the offending article is down though somehow simultaneously insisting that nothing was wrong

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Rorinthas wrote:
Reading through the thread looks like the offending article is down though somehow simultaneously insisting that nothing was wrong


That's the same impression I got. I like how initially they insisted that it was an original article, even though one of the typos was copied from the cracked article!

Classy stuff.


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The logical extension of acquiring the Huffington Post? :D


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I was wondering the same thing, but am unsure if these are HuffPo's people or folks that she needs to clear out of her new house.

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My guess is that she's an AOL person...I was just being snarky about criticisms of HuffPo as they're a content aggregator. :)


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:04 am 
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It sounds like from the forum thread this was actually written by a freelancer and defended by what was likely an "facebook monitor" (Probably an unpaid intern managing their social media). Regardless, they took it down, so I guess they finally figured out what she had done.


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