shadyapples does not match any existing user name (W: 7d | S:6d) recently engaged in a spate of low-effort crit as documented in their Non-disc thread: http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-14023840/non-disc-record-shadyapples
Earlier today, I received the following complaint:
I was approached in #thecritters by ShadyApples24 (wikidot name: ShadyApples) [I noticed] ShadyApples' forum thread contains a lot of the same ideas as one of the ones they shitcritted, which i think counts
Original complaint wording altered slightly to disguise the complainant, who wished to remain anonymous
Upon investigation, I found that in this thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14022203/scp:international-phonetic-anomaly (posted 8 Mar 2021, 08:41) the OP contains the following:
A hiker in Greece near the Zarkos Mountains finds a cave. The cave contains a wall covered in moss alongside a large chart of unknown glyphs alongside a string using those glyphs.
On 8 Mar 2021, 13:32, ShadyApples posted the idea thread: http://www.scpwiki.com/forum/t-14024057/scp:the-all-seeing-box This idea includes the following:
It was discovered in a cave ten miles do west of a trail by a german Hiker by the name of Leon J. Beyer later interviewed. Leon reported seeing a cave with strange glyphs of an unknown language.
While the overall concepts are different, both involve an object found in a cave by hiker. Both objects revolve around the concept of language, though in the first one it is a written language that transforms objects, and in the second it is a spoken language that tells the future.
This is not word-for-word plagiarism, but the derivative concept is enough to give me pause. Relatedly: I have heard from several places that the reason first-time authors are sometimes hesitant to post details about their idea in the forums is because they're afraid of someone stealing said ideas. Thusly, we have assured them that their ideas are safe from plagiarism in an effort to help assuage their worry about posting said ideas.
In light of that policy, do we wish to move on this as plagiarism (thus necessitating a ban), simply consider this an overly-derivative work worthy of a formal warning, or something else entirely?
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