Devastating Yet Inconsequential

irritating illiterate git

13 October 2009 · 3 Comments

Mistress Matisse was kind enough to point out to me that someone on FetLife has my post on topping from the bottom extensively quoted without attribution as part of his profile (which reads like a paper poorly plagiarized from the Internet, as it no doubt is).  Maybe I shouldn’t care, but it irritates me.  I love being quoted but I expect attribution.  I sent him an email (on FetLife):

Hi,

I noticed (it was pointed out to me) that a lot of your profile is quoted from my blog, http://devastatingyet.wordpress.com/. I don’t mind, but I would appreciate an attribution for using my words.

Thanks!

Dev

to which he responded

Well, thank you for giving http://devastatingyet.wordpress.com/ for me to read … be I never been to this site before….

I do get a lot of emails that refer to alot of BDSM, asking if this may be true … but I am reading through the link you gave me and I have not found thing educational that I would like to quote.

By I will keep reading through it and if I find a quote of your I will delete it …

Thank you,

Sir. Sexy Cruiser

After I pointed out the specific post (it’s not subtle), he wrote

Well, I see we both like to quote Dan Savage and Sigmund Fraud, so it seem we both agree on quoting their quotes and did footnoted the domain source which I agree with you where they come from…

Thank you for pointing it out …

Sir. SEXY CRUISER

I suppose he’s probably a non-native speaker rather than illiterate, but whatever.  I reported him to admin for his copyright violation.  (No, adding an incorrect Freud attribution to my words does not help.)

Categories: community · stupid

3 responses so far ↓

  • Tom Allen // 13 October 2009 at 7:20 pm

    Jeez, what a freakin’ jamoke. And the thing that cracks me up is that your list is on his profile in a different font. as if he cribbed it and pasted it in.

    And hasn’t anybody noticed the completely different language change between his own stuff and yours?

    Idiot.

  • sera // 13 October 2009 at 10:04 pm

    ROFL. Sigmund Fraud. Hee.

    He’s now put a reference in to your blog. Whatever. Sorry about him.

  • devastatingyet // 13 October 2009 at 10:39 pm

    Fraud, heh – I didn’t even notice. And the moderators added that reference just now after I complained. Works for me, I guess.

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