Comments on: Plagiarism is alive and kicking on the ‘netz.

By: Sean Carter

Sean Carter — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:38:07 +0000

Thanks guys, for helping get the word out. And John, thanks for the encouragement. It’s a scary time these days, and the field of advertising is taking a bad hit. I have hope tho, if the senators who were so willing to spend American tax dollars and even allow alot of it to disappear, they will hopefully decide it’s okay to invest the same money in our own country to get things moving again. sorry, I gotta stop letting the political side of me come out. But, I am hopeful things will get better some day, hopefully sooner than later.

By: John

John — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:44:12 +0000

Lists. I think that site was able to get away with it for so long because we see so many list posts from many sources that they become generalized enough to fit any blog. I see list posts and forget them as soon as I grab the next one.

Let’s make specific content that sounds like it came from a professional designer so we’ll be able to spot the crooks quicker next time.

Sean, best of luck in your job hunt my friend.

By: matthew duerksen

matthew duerksen — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:14:09 +0000

Can’t believe this happens everyday. Just this week I heard a few stories from a few designers on twitter about their work or posts being copied on another portfolio or site.

Lame!

By: Sean Carter

Sean Carter — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:53:33 +0000

Thanks guys and gals, for helping get the word out. Greg, I’m not exactly a follower of the Black Hat, and I’m not going to be one to condone such behavior. I’d rather ostracize the individual, so he learns and so do any future plagiarists.

By: greg sidberry

greg sidberry — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:35:26 +0000

why don’t we just take down is site? I’m willing to dedicate 1 or 2 zombies if you are. 4-5 machine should be more than enough to him shutdown.

greg

By: Gabe Diaz

Gabe Diaz — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:25:29 +0000

He actually took the time to copy/save every image on that Smashing 100 list. If he took the time/energy used in copying SM work he could have put it to use on creating his own list of 25+.

Delimitdesign is blacklisted in my book.

By: Nic

Nic — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:22:29 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I can definitely identify with
“I procrastinate very much on this blog, I admit. It’s because it takes a lot of hard work to pump out quality blogs” (mind the quotes ) but I’d never even think of ripping off somebody else’s content.

Good job on calling them out.

By: @elidet

@elidet — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:32:07 +0000

Didn’t even have the brains to at least change the wording.
I’m a fan of all the design websites and resources, so I’ll make sure I’ll steer clear of that site.

Thanks for posting, will pass it on.