I transferred a plagiarized review to an admin this morning, commenting with the link to the stolen review. It seems to have "eaten" one of my three daily reviews. If that's the case, let me get this straight...
I make double-sure everything is original content, catch a plagiarist, report it, and am penalized by getting no points whatsoever and (more importantly) losing 1/3 of my daily reviews? Why?

PS: A good way to catch stolen content is grabbing some key sentences of the unedited review and pasting it into Google with quotes around it. The quotes will catch a verbatim result, if any. less

When you were notified by Sammi that you were chosen as an editor for this rotation, you should have received an email from her, most likely dated April 28th. In the 5th paragraph, she has written the following:

If you feel that a review is too filled with mistakes, it should either be sent back to the reviewer for revision with comments, or (for now) email me while you still have the review, with the task #, reviewer name, and review title, so I can take a look at it. If you suspect a review has been plagiarized, you should email me, while you still have the review, with this same information, as well as where the review has been copied from. If you send me this information, and keep ahold of the review, you will get 250 points (manually added). (Please note: normally, you would “submit to administrator”, and then email me. This function currently is not working, so until I let you know, please DO NOT submit to administrator. This puts the review into draft status and sends it back to the reviewer, and I cannot see what’s going on with it!)

If you are not receiving emails from Sammi, you should check your spam folder. Sammi is very helpful and open to questions, so be sure to take advantage of her assistance! less

The best thing to do right now is to A) Edit the title to add that it is plagiarized, or "do not publish," B) Post a note at the bottom saying where it is copied from (give the web address or addresses), and then C) Send a PM to Stormy with the Task number, name of the review, username of the person who submitted the review, and again, where it is copied from.

(DO NOT HIT THE "SEND TO ADMINISTRATOR" BUTTON - it is broken, and the review will wind up back with the reviewer.)

After that, you should be able to release it back to the task market, and hopefully, our fellow editors will leave it there for Stormy to take care of.

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Technically speaking, yes, they are plagiarizing themselves. I've had this come up before, and Sammi told me that it is definitely something that should be corrected. If you run across this in editing, it would be appropriate to send it back to the reviewer with a note that they need to reword the section in question. It is a little trickier if it is in published reviews...I would ask Stormy her thoughts on that. less

Bumping this for the new editors!

Also, in addition to running lines through Google, here are three free plagiarism checkers:

1) The Plagiarism Checker - It will check about 8 phrases, and if it is a long review, it won't reach the end of it.

2) Check for Plagiarism - Better in that it will check phrases through to the end of the review. It will add a note saying "Existing" or a specific link if it finds something suspicious.

3) Plagiarisma.net - The best, in my opinion, at catching bits that have been published before. It can be used with Google (if you register), Babylon, or Yahoo! It also supplies links.

One thing about these sites though - just because it turns something up does not necessarily make it plagiarism. If you check the links, the phrase might be to something completely unrelated. Use your own judgement in that case. less

Bumping this for the new editors!

Also, in addition to running lines through Google, here are three free plagiarism checkers:

1) The Plagiarism Checker - It will check about 8 phrases, and if it is a long review, it won't reach the end of it.

2) Check for Plagiarism - Better in that it will check phrases through to the end of the review. It will add a note saying "Existing" or a specific link if it finds something suspicious.

3) Plagiarisma.net - The best, in my opinion, at catching bits that have been published before. It can be used with Google (if you register), Babylon, or Yahoo! It also supplies links.

One thing about these sites though - just because it turns something up does not necessarily make it plagiarism. If you check the links, the phrase might be to something completely unrelated. Use your own judgement in that case. less

I'm sure there is some amount of plagiarism, but how do we know they didn't write one review and post it to several different websites?

Pasting stuff from the manufacturer's site is one thing, but as some have noted, writing a review is difficult and takes time. I would totally past my same review to multiple places if there was any other site I might like to post to. less

Oh damn there should be a way to do a perm-block the plagiarizers ipaddress. I hate it when people are to lazy to do their own work, I haven't been in rotation in a while but it is good to know what to look for and where to look in the event that I get back in. less