Yeah, “Sandy’s New Cut” which they posted recently is by CrystieV on deviantart. Another story they posted a month or so ago–The Royal Barbershop– is from the old (pre-2004) Story Archive, where JimB used to post… but this particular story was by ClipperOne, not JimB. My suspicion, also voiced by someone in the previous thread, is that someone other than the original JimB is using “JimB” as their handle. I certainly don’t know that, but I find that explanation preferable to believing that someone who contributed dozens of stories to both of the prior story archives would decide to treat other authors with this degree of disrespect.
Plagiarism is obviously bad, but I generally just ignore the authors who mostly post spam-like stories, and pay attention to the authors who consistently write stories I enjoy (e.g. FizzyC and Ginger Herten’s stories I always read). But I guess this pattern of plagiarism just feels especially egregious because whoever they are, they are adding their copyright (with pencilled-in dates, often from the nineties) to stories they clearly didn’t write. So they aren’t just copying, they’re explicitly claiming ownership.
(Mild annoyance, aside, I find it amusing that this is the sort of thing that motivates me to interact other folk here, rather than just lurk as is my habit. But so it is.)
(Second parenthetical: I tried posting this to the prior thread a few days ago, and that didn’t stick… and then it don’t show up here when I tried to reply a few seconds ago. So if this comment somehow ends up appearing three times… that’s why.)
