??Chapter 41: Episode 41 Zero Tolerance for Plagiarism 3
Chapter 41: Episode 41 Zero Tolerance for Plagiarism 3
The first round of the struggle against the unscrupulous web transporters ca to an end, with neither side gaining any advantage.
If we must say who profited, it would be 51buy, which rely won over the sympathy of so justice-minded netizens.
It was ti for the daily internet downti, and after dinner, Zhou Xueyin called a few people together for a eting to devise a second-round strategy against online plagiarism.
“We’ve used every thod available, but we’re still getting our posts stolen. Do any of you have other suggestions?” Zhou Xueyin asked helplessly, looking at the other three people.
“If they steal from us, why don’t we just steal from them?” Yao Shanshan said unabashedly.
“Rejected! We never advocate plagiarism in the first place, and now you propose to plagiarize from them? What would visitors to our forum think?” Zhou Xueyin glared at Yao Shanshan.
“Watermark the entire image? Even if they take the image, it won’t be easy to Photoshop away!” Kang Siyin thought about so image sites she used to visit on other platforms, all covered with watermarking to prevent theft.
“That’s a possibility! If they don’t care and still use our images, it also counts as indirect promotion for us, right?” Zhou Xueyin nodded in satisfaction.
“Images can be protected this way, but what about the text?” Li Jinian brought up an even more central issue.
“Yeah, text is indeed tricky… If we turn the text into images as well, then Shanshan’s workload will be too massive.” Zhou Xueyin thought about how to solve this without increasing the workload for everyone, “But now we’ve used all available thods, so why can they still copy the text?”
“Heh heh… they don’t necessarily copy the text.” Kang Siyin chuckled coldly, “So websites directly screenshot the text…”
“F***ing hell… How lazy can these people get?” Zhou Xueyin was truly fed up with these parasites who profited without lifting a finger.
The whole room fell silent as everyone pondered how to prevent those people from continuing to steal their content.
“Eh? I’ve got it!” A flash of inspiration struck Zhou Xueyin, “What if we do this?”
“Do what?” The three people looked at Zhou Xueyin, who was secretly pleased with herself.
“Let’s serialize our content! Shanbao, let
use your drawing tablet…” Zhou Xueyin opened the drawing tablet on Yao Shanshan’s computer, explaining and sketching at the sa ti.
“Here’s the idea: we create a series of content, then release different content at different tis each day. But we don’t release everything, only half.”
“When will we release the rest of the content?” Yao Shanshan gazed at her, puzzled.
“We continue with the second half of the content in the second week! And not by creating a new post, but by updating the existing one to complete it!” Zhou Xueyin answered, “This way, those who stole the post have only half, and the netizens will definitely co looking for the rest!”
“But I’m afraid that dragging it out like this might make our netizens leave…” Kang Siyin expressed her concern.
“And we can’t publicly declare that we’re making serialized posts; that would just invite the thieves to co back and lurk…” Li Jinian also voiced her doubts.
“So what do you all think we should do?” Zhou Xueyin looked at the three with a defeated expression.
The three of them returned her look with expressions that said they didn’t know what to do either.
Indeed, none of them had worked at other companies and didn’t know how such situations were handled elsewhere. They could only look at each other in bewildernt.
“Since nobody has a better idea, shall we just give this a try first?” Zhou Xueyin asked the others earnestly, “and then switch to sothing else if it doesn’t work?”
“But that ans two weeks will have passed… Shouldn’t we shorten the tiline?” Kang Siyin was still afraid the netizens wouldn’t accept it, thinking to herself that if she were a visitor to a forum where she could only read half the content, she probably wouldn’t co back either.
“What if we post today and complete it on the third day?” Zhou Xueyin suggested tentatively.
“How about this? We use one section as a test field first?” Although willing to take the risk, Li Jinian didn’t want the whole forum to lose traffic because of excessive anti-plagiarism asures.
“That could work…” Zhou Xueyin pondered for a mont before nodding, “But how do we evaluate the effectiveness of the anti-plagiarism asures?”
“Yinyin, are you losing your mind because you’re mad? Just go to their website and you’ll see.” Kang Siyin patted Zhou Xueyin on the head.
“Oh! Right! I am flustered by anger! I’ll handle this! I need to make a spreadsheet to see when they copy our content!” Zhou Xueyin stood up and went back to her computer to create an Excel spreadsheet.
Zhou Xueyin listed out the websites that plagiarize the forum’s content in an Excel spreadsheet, recorded the approximate tis of their daily updates, and then docunted the view and reply counts after they reposted the content.
She found that the primary operators of these sites typically updated content around 10 a.m. and then again at 4 p.m.
The updates at other scattered tis were likely posts by netizens.
“Hmm…” Zhou Xueyin propped her chin, staring at the computer, pondering at length.
“Yinyin, what kind of practice are you doing?” Li Jinian joked, already guessing, based on her knowledge of Zhou Xueyin, that she probably had another idea.
“We update at the sa ti as them! If they update at 10 a.m., we update at 10:30 a.m.! If they update at 4 p.m., we complete it at 4:30 p.m.! That way they will always be eating our leftovers! Hehehe…” Zhou Xueyin laughed sinisterly.
“So you an, let them take the old content, then we update the new part, but not completely. When they finish updating our incomplete new post, we then complete it?” Kang Siyin clarified Zhou Xueyin’s plan.
“Exactly! That’s the plan!” Zhou Xueyin gave a thumbs-up, looking at Kang Siyin with approval.
“Have you thought about which section to use for the experint? If not, how about we use the makeup section as a test field?” Li Jinian volunteered, “You know, it doesn’t really matter if clothing tips are serialized or not. Any way you pair clothes will work. But makeup is different; if you only write about drawing eyebrows and not about applying eyeshadow, those who read the post will also be annoyed, right?”
“That’s right! That’s right! And they’ll always co back to see if there’s an update!” Yao Shanshan agreed fervently.
“Isn’t that exactly what we want? If they see an update that’s only halfway done on another site, they’ll definitely want to know what to do next, and they might just co over here?” Zhou Xueyin’s eyes sparkled as she spoke.
She could almost see a large wave of netizens following the cables to their forum to sign up.
“Right, Yinyin, Yinyin…” Yao Shanshan hesitated, not wanting to spoil Zhou Xueyin’s good mood, but the issue was too pressing not to ntion, “When I was uploading images this afternoon, it said the space was full…”
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