I got plagiarized :(

[writerannabelle]

And some of you did as well.

https://www.wattpad.com/story/136744237-literotica/parts

So, thoughts on this? What do I do?

 

[EquinoxRising]

That wattpad has a "report a story" feature. Ironically, that "author" says "you are reading a Literotica fantasy".

 

[SimonDoom]

And some of you did as well.

https://www.wattpad.com/story/136744237-literotica/parts

So, thoughts on this? What do I do?

You can try writing the author first.

I found a story of mine on someone's Tumblr page, somewhat condensed and revised, but obviously the same story. I messaged them and they took it down. So, sometimes people do the right thing. You never know.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

Not on Literotica...

But some stories of mine on another site were plagiarized, and published in Indonesian. Someone pointed it out to me and it took me weeks to get it worked out.

This sort of thing infuriates me. I hope it gets resolved to your satisfaction.

 

[ChloeTzang]

And some of you did as well.

https://www.wattpad.com/story/136744237-literotica/parts

So, thoughts on this? What do I do?

(1) Report it to Wattpad

(2) It's got 22.5k views on Wattpad. Put your story up there yourself. Seems popular enough

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I just left a comment on her bio page...she said they delete her book and she had to repost it.

I comment that she stole it that's why it got deleted.

 

[lovecraft68]

That's the first time I clicked onto wattpad. I can see why lit is losing to it.

 

[Blind_Justice]

That's the first time I clicked onto wattpad. I can see why lit is losing to it.

Same here. Looks slick. Maybe some of my ... more adventurous stories might do quite well there, given the subject matter I've seen in the sidebar alone.

 

[ChloeTzang]

That's the first time I clicked onto wattpad. I can see why lit is losing to it.

Yep. It's presentation is slick and you can do image and multimedia inserts. No vetting. It's either everyone or 18+ and it relies on users to report breaking of the rules. 45 million active users and climbing. The difference is it relies totally on tags and social networking for views. So you have to work at it. No instant visibility like with LIT.

Stacy hasn't done too badly. But the views are nowhere near Literotica levels. If Laurel and Manu could get their GUI and presentation up to Wattpad level, Literotica would really kick ass. Coz a lot of the Wattpad content is just sucky. Teenage kids writing crap. Said non judgementally coz I wrote like that but I wouldn't want a lot of people to see it.

 

[lovecraft68]

Same here. Looks slick. Maybe some of my ... more adventurous stories might do quite well there, given the subject matter I've seen in the sidebar alone.

Slick is a good way to describe it. I'm not techy so Lit never bothered me much in the past, but lately as I've ended up going on some different sites for other projects its dawned on me how archaic and clunky this site is.

For old farts like me, its still okay, but kids coming up now must look at this the way they look at the original Atari.

 

[writerannabelle]

I went with Chloe's advice.

Step 1: Contacted publisher
Step 2: DMCA takedown notice from publisher
Step 3: Uploading my stories currently

Hopefully that addresses the issue for now.

 

[Gentleman_G]

For old farts like me, its still okay, but kids coming up now must look at this the way they look at the original Atari.

Don`t say that ... now I feel like an old fart as well, remembering said Atari when it came out

 

[lovecraft68]

Don`t say that ... now I feel like an old fart as well, remembering said Atari when it came out

Combat ruled!

 

[oggbashan]

Don`t say that ... now I feel like an old fart as well, remembering said Atari when it came out

I was the systems manager for an early model of this:

IBM 1401

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/BRL61-IBM_1401.jpg/420px-BRL61-IBM_1401.jpg

 

[SolarRay]

I've seen a bunch of reports like this, but I've never actually searched around for my own stories. Are there any actual strategies for searching for instances of plagiarism from time to time? I would imagine that these folks typically change titles and character names. Do you just run a Google search for distinct lines from the body text or something?

 

[ausfet]

That's the first time I clicked onto wattpad. I can see why lit is losing to it.

It's the first time I've clicked on it, too, and the first story I chose to read had to be one of the worst-edited pieces I've seen. The second was just as bad. I'm guessing the site owners aren't moderating the content in any way.

 

[lovecraft68]

It's the first time I've clicked on it, too, and the first story I chose to read had to be one of the worst-edited pieces I've seen. The second was just as bad. I'm guessing the site owners aren't moderating the content in any way.

Chloe said the only moderating is done by readers reporting things. I don't know if poorly written breaks a rule.

The site isn't just adult and I think is kind of an open forum. Just write what you want and toss it there.

FWIW you can find some horrifically written pieces here too. I'm sure that like here you have to weed through some bad to find some good.

But my remark was based more on the site being modern, easy to navigate with a lot of modern bells and whistles that appeals to people born after 1990.

 

[ausfet]

Chloe said the only moderating is done by readers reporting things. I don't know if poorly written breaks a rule.

The site isn't just adult and I think is kind of an open forum. Just write what you want and toss it there.

FWIW you can find some horrifically written pieces here too. I'm sure that like here you have to weed through some bad to find some good.

But my remark was based more on the site being modern, easy to navigate with a lot of modern bells and whistles that appeals to people born after 1990.

The search function was great, but I wasn't hugely fond of the layout. I'm a child of the eighties, so that might be my problem

 

[ChloeTzang]

It's the first time I've clicked on it, too, and the first story I chose to read had to be one of the worst-edited pieces I've seen. The second was just as bad. I'm guessing the site owners aren't moderating the content in any way.

No moderating or editing. 45 million active users, but as far as I can figure, a bhuge percentage of that are teenage girls. There's a tremendous amount of fanfiction and a lot of of teenage girl angst and "romance" stuff and a LOT of very badly written sex or implied sex. 13 and Pregnant was one of the first ones that popped up when I signed up.

They don't check or edit and poorly written doesn't break any rules. You just upload and launch - any flagging is done my readers. It's either open or 18+. given the lack of checks and editing, most of the stories I've read there have been just awfully written, which goes with the bulk of the user population.

The interface is great for writers, you can do covers (you HAVE to do a cover), you can insert youtube music clips (Like this) and it's easy to come back and edit whenever you like. They encourage that and readers can make comments all through the story and you as a writer can respond - as well as in the comments. They encourage short chapters (mobile readers). All in all, it's a great interface. Wish LIT could learn from them.

As of January 2018:
85% of its traffic and usage comes from mobile devices
the site has 65 million unique visitors per month
there are over 400 million story uploads in total
there are over 2.5 million writers.

With that sort of volume, it's very hard to standout, but if you can, some Wattpad authors have gone on to be published. It's a lot harder to get visibility than on Literotica - it's all around social networking and you have to actively work at that.

It's big, they've got millions in venture capital funding (To date, almost USD $117.8M in funding from investors). 130 odd employees and based in Toronto. For some reason they're enormously popular in the Philippines.

 

[ausfet]

It sounds a lot like a fancier version of fictionpress.com merged with fanfiction.net. Unmoderated, anything goes unless it's reported (my experience with fictionpress was that it never is), and a large number of authors but proportionately few readers.

I might disagree at times with the standards literotica's moderators enforce/allow, but as someone who also reads quite a bit, I enjoy not wasting my time opening stories that the author hasn't even attempted to edit.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

No one reads my stuff at Wattpad. I posted a story there over a year ago and it has all of 33 views and one of those was my daughter.

Compared to here where my least viewed story is at 1.1K and it was just posted yesterday.

 

[ChloeTzang]

No one reads my stuff at Wattpad. I posted a story there over a year ago and it has all of 33 views and one of those was my daughter.

Compared to here where my least viewed story is at 1.1K and it was just posted yesterday.

Yes, I've had three stories up for a few days there and zilch in the way of views. Selena Kitt has a few stories up and her views are insignificant. I'm going to keep playing there but I suspects it's a completely different reader demographic to here. And getting visibility there, like I said, it's not just a case of putting a story up and forgetting about it. It's all tags and social networking. I'm looking at the high view / popular authors to see how they do it.

 

[lovecraft68]

I was the systems manager for an early model of this:

IBM 1401

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/BRL61-IBM_1401.jpg/420px-BRL61-IBM_1401.jpg

What year was that, Ogg?

 

[lovecraft68]

Yes, I've had three stories up for a few days there and zilch in the way of views. Selena Kitt has a few stories up and her views are insignificant. I'm going to keep playing there but I suspects it's a completely different reader demographic to here. And getting visibility there, like I said, it's not just a case of putting a story up and forgetting about it. It's all tags and social networking. I'm looking at the high view / popular authors to see how they do it.

I wonder if their algorithms sort of bury the erotica? You know, like Amazon does

And Lit is a pure porn site so anyone looking to read adult material will come here first. On WP they probably stumble across it by accident. But as word gets out more people will head over there to look.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Yes, I've had three stories up for a few days there and zilch in the way of views. Selena Kitt has a few stories up and her views are insignificant. I'm going to keep playing there but I suspects it's a completely different reader demographic to here. And getting visibility there, like I said, it's not just a case of putting a story up and forgetting about it. It's all tags and social networking. I'm looking at the high view / popular authors to see how they do it.

Yeah like you said in your other post, it's mostly for teenage girls and it's fanfic. My 15 year old writes there Twenty One Pilots stuff and gets a lot of views.

I guess what I write just isn't what anyone there is looking for.