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HumboldtLycanthrope wrote: Dupin, lot's of people are making repeated comments here, I don't see why I can't. Fireworks and I are having a very reasonable and civil conversation, not a pissing contest. This is a community forum and I have every right to be here discussing the matter. Was that not why the thread was started?

Okay, I'll be up front here. I've had story ideas straight up ripped off from me here before. I've also read stories that seemed to be more than inspired by mine. This contest is just encouraging more of the same. I haven't seen people repeat their own comments, unless they were pointing something out directly to someone. Which you didn't. But that doesn't matter.

Of course you can have a civil conversation. But you are constantly taking stabs at the people behind the contest, even though your accusations are far-fetched.

And no, what you are calling plagiarism isn't plagiarism. Because it is a remake. If I used a white faced crazy killer with a carved smiled whispering "Go to sleep" in one of my stories and claimed it was mine, then yes, that would be plagiarism. But not if said story was a remake of the original. You are essentially saying that in a Terminator remake, the writers can't use "I'll be back" because they would be plagiarizing the original. That doesn't sound right, does it?

Lastly, if you think someone really plagiarized one of your stories, you should report it to an admin. That is a very serious matter.