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RE: 🚨 Someone Stole My Writing Here and Reposted It Elsewhere 🚨
For sure many of us do have the same experience, and what makes you believe it was a Steemian? You can easily have a look on Hive, just like everyone on Hive can have a look on Steemit! Every text and picture can be taken without any problem, the sites are not protected against taking copies.
If you want to put a complaint you have to go to Hive and not complaint here, sorry, but that's the fact. For sure there are Hive watchers who will act.
I am sorry it happened to you, you and I are just one out of many, The only proof you might have is that what you posted has an older date.
I understand completely. I've seen it happen frequently on Medium, but I never expected it to happen to me.
I thought my sometimes odd writing, with its unconventional grammar and structure, to retain my raw thoughts—wouldn't be attractive to thieves; I assumed they'd only target the "really well-written" pieces.
Content theft is unavoidable, but the frustrating part is the burden of having to prove our work is original before we're mistakenly accused of being the plagiarizer.
As I mentioned, I'd already published this post on PeakD before bringing it here, to warn others to check if this happens to them too. The moderator has since muted that post, and a warning has been placed on the plagiarizer's other content.
While I have drafts saved on both my phone and email, I definitely need another platform that has detailed timestamping for my drafts. I'm looking at GitHub and Google Docs.