Have you ever been falsely accused of duplicate content?

No, I haven't been. However, I've thought a lot about duplicate content and QC on Mahalo a fair bit so I've seen a few cases of it. Here's what I would do: 1) Send a direct message to the person who QC'd your task.

Ask them to explain what was duplicated and how they came to the conclusion. 2) If you're still not sure, I'd direct message the person who assigned the page to you. This person is either Mahalo staff or a Vertical Manager.

Both of the folks who fill these roles fill them to help you. They'll likely contact the QC person too and do their own checks. 3) If you're still not sure about why your task was rejected or you're having trouble, e-mail [email protected].

Provide a clear description of what's wrong and what you've done to try to solve the problem. This e-mail address receives a ton of e-mail and if you're clear and concise, you'll receive a response in no time. Even with all this, I can't help but feel bad about this situation.

While I didn't QC your work on the task your referring to, I know how much work long articles can take. I also know how much a returned article can sting but I bet that if you ask "why" to the right folks (the 3 listed above), you'll have a great solution in no time. Rob.

Duplicate content is not necessarily the same as plagiarism. For instance, if I write an article and submit it to two different sites, I haven't plagiarized anything, but it's still duplicate content. It sounds like you're talking about submitting an article to be published online.

Start with asking if they can provide you with the link to the duplicate content. That would give you an opportunity to look at the other article to see just how much similarity it is. Also ask if there is an appeals procedure in place, so that you know what you need to do to have the issue reconsidered.

As I understand it, the problem with duplicate content is in page rankings. If you have duplicate content, then the little gremlins that live in the system ignore your page because of it. Since we all want to make money on our pages, you can't do that if you have too much duplicate content.

Besides some of the other ideas listed would be to see if maybe you could write it in such a way as to change it a bit. This does get tough on certain pages, like food pages and stuff with similar steps of doing things. I don't think I QC'd that page either but it's just something to think about when writing pages that have so much similar content already online.

Good luck to you.

Yes, I have been accused. I do photography and submit my photos to stock companies. At one company, several of my photos were rejected stating that I was submitting someone else's work.It took lots of emails back and forth to finally convince the editors that these were my original photos, that I took with my own camera and developed myself.

I finally got so frustrated that I never sent any more pictures to this company. And I never received a reply when I asked where the photos were located that I was supposed to have copied. When submitting original content on the internet, you just never know who will claim your work.

I do know that there are times when writing articles, especially recipes and food articles, that the content may seem exact. For instance, most recipes are going to state - stir constantly, cook on low heat, add salt - and these statements when checked for duplicate content will sometimes flag your article as a duplicate. When this happens, just hope that you have an understanding person on the other end of the computer that knows this.

Good luck and hope this helps.

Yep, once on Mahalo. I was creating lots of sewing (type of stitch) pages, ie, how to cross stitch, and I repeated the same instruction on another stitch page, something about avoiding knotting the thread. I have to say I was informed, with grace and generosity, that even though the words were my own originally, I could still not duplicate phrases from page to page.

Now that I understand what that means, I am very careful to reword even my own work. On another note, I have actually had one of my own pages on Mahalo plagiarised, that has a bitter sweet taste to it. They say that immitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but I wonder how google sees it?

Yes, I have. I submitted an article to...OK probably shouldn't say the name. But it was on freezing tomatoes from your garden instead of going through the process of canning them.It was all very basic info.

There is only so much you can say about freezing tomatoes. It was rejected. This was the second article I had rejected due to this same problem so I haven't submitted anymore.

Having said that...the staff here seems much more reasonable and would probably work with a person to straighten things out. :).

Yes my teacher accused me of copy and pasting my essay when I only cited the content I got from that particualr site.

Yes, I have. I do a lot of micro work/crowdsourcing, and a lot of it's rewriting sentences. (The moral implications of this are something I already struggle with, so believe me, I've heard it all.) I put genuine effort into all of this, and I don't copy/paste.

However, for some sentences, there's only so much rewriting you can do. Perhaps there are proper names or technical terms without many synonyms. And if someone's using an automatic detector like DupeCop, they can't catch stuff like that.

I suppose if I was really, really dedicated I could Google the sentences beforehand, but that takes far, far, far too much time. As far as academic sources, though, I've never been accused of plagiarism, because I don't. I take my studies even more seriously than that.

(I'd hope so! ).

Yes, I was by Helium.com. The funny part is that I used my pen name in my original article and used my true name at helium. , so they had concluded that we were two different persons.

I had to send them a birth certificate and the affidavit of my father, just to prove that I was one and the same person. I appreciate what they did though,. Because at least I'm sure that they won't be allowing duplicate content in their site.

Yes, I was. It was by one site I couldn't mention here. I made three different articles in my own words and when I submitted them, they wouldn't be accepted because I was told to submit my original article.

I didn't know if that was because of the title but no, I couldn't find an exact match nor anyone submitting exact article. I emailed them telling that those were my own articles and not copied from anywhere else but I got no reply.

Thankfully no. But then again, I always manage to paraphrase and put the information I read into my own words. People who cut and paste and don't site or acknowledge it are just plain lazy and uncreative.

I enjoy writing and expressing things in my own way.

I have not but, considering that there are millions of writers, who write what they write - "in my own words" could be the exact same as someone else's "own words" or at the least very, very similar. Such as - when someone read an article and write it in their "own words" and someone else write that same article in their "own words" and someone else write it in their 'own words'......... - sooner or later those words will be very similar or even the same as the original (or the same as what someone wrote in their "own words".

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.