Jumping Hurdles, Why writing sites fail (2)

If one writes anything but a personal blog (and even then) it is likely that much of what  will  be posted has been posted already.

If it is history, if it is science, politics, anything that is real; i.e. Hilary Clinton was confirmed as the Democratic nominee for President, someone has written that before, and unless the plagiarism checker has a human checker behind it, a totally unique item can be rejected.

On one site, I’ll call it ‘Flip’  I tried to prove my point with actual quotes.  I would say something like, “In 1961, John F. Kennedy said…”  and then go on to put the quote in,  with the little ” ” signs.

Flip would reject my article for ‘plagiarism.’

{I am NOT making this up}.

It got to a point that I would paraphrase everything, use no quotes, no proof,

I would change percentages to numbers, i.e. “75% of all Americans….”   to “About three quarters of all people living in the United States….”

It became ridiculous to try and pass on factual information that I had researched and needed to confirm my credibility

Very often people will argue about a fact; and I want to be able to avoid unnecessary argument with a quote or reference so that the reader would know I wasn’t making it up.

Other writers got disgusted as well. It was simply impossible to write a respectable item if one couldn’t give the credit, the acknowledgements, the proof.

I recall one complaining in the Forum about having an article bounced for ‘plagiarism’ when she had quoted a section of the U.S. Constitution,  in a piece in which she needed to make it clear that the rights she was discussing in her article needed the foundation.

Complaints to the Owner were a waste of keystroke for you’d get an automated response.

One joker would spell things wrong to fool the A.I.

“Prsdent Kendy said: “……”

Another would invent conversations with people he never met who never said what he claimed.

Of course Flip went down.  It had no credibility.  But that was after I, and a battalion of users packed up and left.

The point?

Artificial Intelligence is not very Intelligent.