What Happened To A Plagiarist

Like how I normally do, I go to RentACoder.com to get a special report written. It’s not a very long one. I just need somethign around 10 to 20 pages. Not many bid for my project. And one of them was this guy … let’s call him Mr. R. Mr. R has an OK feedback. He seems to be a guy that understands search engine optimization and internet marketing. So I let him do the work …

After sometimes, he got back to me with the report. And when I started reading what he wrote, I had this funny feeling. I feel like he’s not really writing what I wanted. Alright, I can write the things that he needed to change. But somehow I still had the funny feeling bugging me. I thought that something could it be wrong … Could it be … ??

I took a few phrases from the report he did and I a search on Google using the quotes (example – “the phrase from report”). And that answered it … it’s true that Mr. R plagiarized many parts of the report. I could find plagiarized content in almost every page in the report. I found the same articles in Wikipedia and some people’s blogs.

While I was OK if the report needs to corrected, I don’t think I can work with a plagiarist anymore. So I reported it to RentACoder.com and said that I don’t want to work with this particular writer anymore. I also sent proof that he was plagiarizing work so that RentACoder.com understand the reason why I want to do this. Some buyer just wanted to get work done for free, and I am not one of those people.

So we went into arbirtration. The writer denied that he was plagiarizing but the proof was obvious. I thought I will just get my escrowed money back and get the project cancelled. But it turns out that Mr. R also got sacked from RentACoder.com.

Well, I didn’t really wanted this for him. But RentACoder.com has always been strict on things like that. They are really thorough with arbitrations and want it to be a safe place for buyers and coders. And I am fortunate that I spotted the problem with the report before I started giving the report away. Whooah … if I didn’t, I am the bad guy then …