It was mid-February 2010 and athelas started a thread called: People’s mate preferences are racist. Do we care? It was a cynically flawed, but detailed argument for the government to regulate romances by race (because the US government also regulates some businesses to be racially diverse). Of course it provided fodder for debate.
](http://www.halfsigma.com/2011/07/immigration-and-the-dsk-case.html)To which triggers more calm (and utterly confused) responses from Marley23, wmfellows, and clairobscur. Little does anyone know that they are not communicating with a human, but a robot. Someone who doesn’t engages in debate, responds to criticism, nor forms their own opinions; but a simple mailman, who takes/copies the arguments of others and delivers/pastes them elsewhere. Nary a single attribution and always disguised as his own informed comments.
While I suppose it’s possible that he’s the author of each of those blogs, yikes. It does look like plagiarism occurred. If that’s the case, athelas, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Good detective work. Maybe you could have just forwarded the info to the mods, but this is okay too. Looks like it warrants an immediate cease and desist warning.
While I suppose it’s possible that he’s the author of each of those blogs, yikes. It does look like plagiarism occurred. If that’s the case, athelas, you should be ashamed of yourself.
All kidding aside (for the moment…) I do remember a trend being reported in ATMB a long time ago about messages from SDMB’s being plagiarized and posted on other blogs. Are you sure it wasn’t the other way around?