plagiarizer - relations

MyLot member relations frequently uses the "this happened to one of my friends" approach. She steals the subject line, and then includes various responses as part of her opening discussion.

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1207799.aspx
Stolen in two parts (see response from user Patti) from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhRuPUSfDl0VnLfIZuY6VjgjzKIX?qid=20070719093340AAl8HPD

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1207779.aspx
Stolen from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApBN4bLhHTpG1WbwDBKib3kjzKIX?qid=20070719093341AAgNmty

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1207769.aspx
Stolen (in portions) from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqaGWCJafO5tqgCRZ3GuS2kjzKIX?qid=20070719093349AAQvAb8

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1207796.aspx
Stolen from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aus8iKkyDW8wDXY1HNCZE18jzKIX?qid=20070717112805AATBpvj

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1207682.aspx
Stolen from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmS_F5Go_qCN5970u4dOfKkjzKIX?qid=20070719083708AAo1Tr9

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1207710.aspx (at the end of this one, she forgot that she was referring to a "friend")
Stolen from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtfaZf.NIqsaxhtZzO_ZKCQjzKIX?qid=20070719083701AAN9cv9

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1207659.aspx
Stolen from (also see response from user "wwegal") http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ava6tVB9j7TC.mo7PloFkQkjzKIX?qid=20070719083712AA2Vgc9

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1203674.aspx
Stolen (in portions) from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuSfSjvFlfGHHMsMGagI07YjzKIX?qid=20070717021322AAfKRbN

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1201209.aspx
Stolen (in portions) from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Am7I_RMunIk5JXWYnh2FKtYjzKIX?qid=20070715091217AAjSWP8

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1202198.aspx
Stolen in part (compare the response from user "davidsnoodles") from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Al4q4tVq4JvYl3LxAjSjZ3kjzKIX?qid=20070716030639AA9Pu4n

Spamming - leon1987

MyLot member leon1987 has pasted hundreds of duplicate responses into many discussions. If you look his last ten responses the are all identical. These are the links to the discussions.

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1082682.aspx
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1082008.aspx
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1089043.aspx
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1089252.aspx
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1091500.aspx
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1092110.aspx
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1098397.aspx
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1094663.aspx
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1103604.aspx
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1104889.aspx

Since there are additional pages of responses to discussions about coffee, I would assume that these are probably more of the same. If you care to go further into his responses, you will find many pages of responses about mac and PC computers. You will want to look into them as well, because I'm sure that you will find a similar pattern there. This is followed by a section on ipods, followed by winamp, followed by instant messenger, windows vista, and maybe more before that...

I went back through 36 pages of his responses and saw only one response that didn't fit this profile...

plagiarizer - alonaz continues

MyLot member alonaz continues to spam the site with multiple pages of plagiarized posts despite the fact that many were reported and removed by myLot a couple of months ago. You can find a list of the ones reported and removed here.

His posts are stolen directly from answers.yahoo.com and can easily be found by typing his subject line into the search box on the yahoo site. The first search result will be identical, including the typos. This is a simple case of copy & paste plagiarism.

Check these out for yourself, and report a few while you are there. I don't know why myLot would allow such actions to continue, but maybe if enough members speak out, he will be stopped.