Can you tell me what project/ICO are you talking about? So we could at least avoid it.
There are a lot of scam ico nowadays that copy whitepapers from the other. I mean all of information were copied from it but do you consider plagriarism if they have the same concept and ideas about it? I mean, it didn't copy the exact words but almost the same content or meaning.
Topic: Plagiarism in Whitepapers, what do you think? (Read 745 times)
I think a lot of cases like this occur. It's certainly become a fairly severe violation of the law because of plagiarizing the work of others. If taken seriously then this field can be brought to it heavier again. the whitepaper will certainly be quite factored in ICO and certainly, this is quite troubling.
Plagiarism is a negative activity that shows that he does not have creativity in his content, this is an action that will harm himself.
Creative and good ideas will certainly have a more interesting level and results will be a satisfaction especially about the whitepaper.
Creative and good ideas will certainly have a more interesting level and results will be a satisfaction especially about the whitepaper.
Plagiarism of whitepaper is a common practice of scam projects. If an investors will not thoroughly study and research about the whitepaper of a project and its possible competitor. Then more likely they will be scammed. That's why before participating in an ICO, the investors need to do study and research.
The WP should be the main building block for the business. If they can't even do that right then you have a lot to worry about...
This is not suprising anymore since most of the ICO's are scam. What do you expect with scam project, almost evetything there is also fake and copied from other sources. The sole purpose of scam is just to convince investors and earn money. They don't mind of the content of their whitepaper.
When researching ICOs for investing, since it is your money that is involved it is good to always dig deeper and that involves carrying out a plagiarism test on the whitepaper, a reverse image search on the project team to find if there are any existing materials with the same pictures or documents in order to avoid getting scammed.
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Outside cryptos, plagiarism is a very serious offense and crime and is punishable with adequate measures. It is common in cryptos that new devs copy other old project whitepaper and don't even bother to modify or edit it to complement their own project. This should be taken seriously.
A lot of ICOs just pay random idiots on websites like fiverrr.com and freelancer to write their whitepaper, these people don't understand the depths and intricacies of the project, leading them to search for this information online. Unfortuntately there isn't much information available online, meaning the less creative writers will start to plagiarize the little material they have.
Here's a lesson guys, write your own damn whitepaper, or actually take the time to fully brief the guys on the project.
I also encountered quite a few projects with similar whitepaper and not much special. I think that these projects probably think investors will not spend time reading WPP so they do not focus on creating a serious WPP. The other WPP copying projects I will not appreciate. Here's a lesson guys, write your own damn whitepaper, or actually take the time to fully brief the guys on the project.
in my opinion if a project has a plagiarism, it is indicated as a scam, because where there might be the same project from the explanation side and the existing roadmap
If a project copypasted its whitepaper, then for me it is scam. Whitepaper is the most important thing for me when i analyze projects.
A lot of ICOs just pay random idiots on websites like fiverrr.com and freelancer to write their whitepaper, these people don't understand the depths and intricacies of the project, leading them to search for this information online. Unfortuntately there isn't much information available online, meaning the less creative writers will start to plagiarize the little material they have.
Here's a lesson guys, write your own damn whitepaper, or actually take the time to fully brief the guys on the project.
Here's a lesson guys, write your own damn whitepaper, or actually take the time to fully brief the guys on the project.
This is so inevitable because many projects are just copy and paste... with everyone claiming to be best and sometimes first. Hardly new projects coming with unique products again.
So many ongoing and upcoming ICOs find it really difficult to have a unique product thereby end up copying others and surely there will be plagiarism when the product is not originally their idea.
As a writer (and former student) any kind of plagiarism bothers me. 
I don't care if it's the same group writing for multiple projects, they need to present unique content. That's not to say they can't get guidance from an outline but definitely use your own words and convey the true voice behind the company!
I like what beej said too:
It would make me think twice about investing in them because if they're cutting corners with a fundamental piece of information, what else are they being cheap with?
I don't care if it's the same group writing for multiple projects, they need to present unique content. That's not to say they can't get guidance from an outline but definitely use your own words and convey the true voice behind the company!
I like what beej said too:
If plagiarism is clearly that noticeable then it's contents can be questionable.
The whole package and project itself might as well be suspected as a scam.
The whole package and project itself might as well be suspected as a scam.
It would make me think twice about investing in them because if they're cutting corners with a fundamental piece of information, what else are they being cheap with?
If plagiarism is clearly that noticeable then it's contents can be questionable.
The whole package and project itself might as well be suspected as a scam.
Maybe we can put this as an early immediate indication of fraud. If it applies
to all ICO whitepapers that have practice copying and editing materials.
The whole package and project itself might as well be suspected as a scam.
Maybe we can put this as an early immediate indication of fraud. If it applies
to all ICO whitepapers that have practice copying and editing materials.
I think Plagiarism is the new norm to scam people for quick buck. It is challenging to identify good projects - something like Neo, OMG or Startis etc.
If you find some thought being copied. You don't need to continue searching for deep information. Already said it just waste project and maybe it is scam. No one great project do plagiarism so no doubt that's is a shit project. Stay away, there are a lot which good valued token can worth
Usually those project copied or had some plagiarize content in any if their writen information such whitepaper. Big sign of the team will be runaway after getting a huge amount of money through fake ICO sales, scam. After realizing the truth about the project just leave and find some better most. We dont need to do further research and its already clear what indication sbowed up
Most ICOs and especially bounty campaigns seem to use plagiarized content in some capacity. I rarely read ICOs so can't comment on that but half of them just rehash the same templates or just copy what somebody has already previously posted on their ANN/Bounty thread. Wouldn't surprise me at all if it was the same group of people behind half of them as well. Probably too good to be true for scammers to resist so they just keep them running constantly. People keep seeming to give them their money for half-baked ideas so I can't see why they would stop creating them.
This is basically because they know that people don't normally read the whitepapers of these ICOs and i wouldn't really trust any ICO if they are able to plagiarize the work of another ICO.This is a very bad reputation for those people out there part-taking in such practices. Though, my view on this is that if the team is not serious enough about their idea that's when they may try to fall into this, otherwise if the team has a brilliant idea they would WANT to explain in the whitepaper why is that so, and so the good ICOs won't want the shortcut others might take.
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