His account is a glowing crater. Cake for everyone!

(Sorry about the beak holes in the cake; the plover thought there might be some small, tasty crustaceans hiding in it or something)

Baiting and switching is NOT cool.

Even if he is a plagiarizing jerk, it does NOT mean that ANYONE has the right to troll him.

Cos.

Y'know.

Trolling is bad.

Also, I'd be really disappointed that another PPCer would think of doing something like this and try to carry it out.

Give us a link to the story in question? I still have enough left of my mind to give him a piece of it.

... because you have the same story in two different places? Do tell me you're replying and explaining, and also telling him what a [long string of naughty bad words] he is?

That wasn't there when I reviewed him. All of those copy-paste ones are from my reviewing account, as well as the 'Thoughts To Think About'. I'll keep an eye out to make sure he doesn't get the one fanfic on that account.

Although, if he does take my Naruto fic and change the names on it, I'll definitely have proof that he's plagiarising.

... Nah. *gazes up towards The Cloud of Arrogance* Yep, he's there.

Is that first, he says he will not respond to accusations of plagiarism, then he goes on to explain how he will retaliate. Retaliation is a form of response, genius.

As in, I get paid for it. Not enough to support myself, as I'm a Poor Student who has uni work to do, but never mind... Who ever said that nothing useful will come out of internet hoobies? I found my career! Anyway...

I really don't like taking jobs where I'm paid by the hour because every different document will take different lengths of time no matter what the word count. Even the simplest document will be read three or more times.

Which isn't to say I can't be fast; I can. Often my first return for anything under ten thousand words will come within a day. If the author needs to make detailed changes in any section, we'll discuss that.

However, as much as I don't want to agree with this guy, I wouldn't say three days is a bad thing if you want to do it right - particularly if you have a life, too. I can beta-read very fast, but I hesitate to make any promises, as something could suddenly come up and delay me for quite a while. Most people would understand, but I hate to let anyone down.

- Sedri, who doesn't call herself an expert (yet)

Don't think I'm defending this creep, but speed does not in and of itself make a good beta. If I take on beta work, I expect to read through it at least twice before sending it back to the author, and then I usually have questions for them to address in addition to basic corrections. That means another read-through after they've answered my questions with fixes; rinse and repeat if I'm still not satisfied. It takes time.

That's why I don't really do beta-reading these days. I don't have that kind of time during the school year.

~Neshomeh, who plans to do this sort of thing for a living.

A good beta has it back in a day. Less, if they're online when you send it. Chatvert had my massive twelve-page mission read in a day, and my Harry Potter beta has never taken longer than a day or two.

So, I'm able to read quite a long document (not sure how many words, I hardly ever use Wordcount) in a matter of hours - possibly even minutes - and finish betaing in maybe three hours? That is, of course, once I get around to it. But three days is appallingly slow to beta, even if it's sitting on your desktop for two of those days.

*grabs pebbles* The Hit Myrtle competition has nothing on this...

They're pinched second-hand from Mark Twain. More directly, they're pinched from me.

I did a bit of googling, and it seems there's only one place Twain's rules are listed in exactly that format: my FFN profile. Note: I just made a small change in my version, so they don't match exactly anymore.

So, counting me, that's at least three people I know he's ripped something off from, and none of them, to my knowledge, permitted it.

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his armpits. Better yet, may the viruses of a thousand lamers infest his computer.

Actually, they don't say they copy-paste stories. They say they adapt them using certain tools and methods but keeping the core of the story. Keeping the core of the story sounds to me like: taking the plot and rewriting the whole thing.

I can't judge on whether they did that as they don't quote source. Proper research requires you to give others enough information so they can replicate your experiment. In this case that would mean acknowledging where the core of the story came from.

That, and the fact that half the profile is made up of copy-paste statistics make it that I do not take this person seriously. Though I find the first paragraph very intriguing and would really like to see some research like that.