Hidden 9 yrs ago Post by Guild Mods
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Due to plagiarism on the part of the contestant who put in the winning submission, the award for RPGC #2 is being rescinded. The Guild does not tolerate the theft of intellectual property or attempts to cheat in the contests. Other people worked very hard on their submissions in good faith. This is not Fonz cool.

Our congratulations for winning go to the people who actually put in the work and created their own material, not someone that just ran a google search.

Just in case anyone else thinks of a cheap and easy way to snake someone out of a custom user title, please bear in mind that one warn, one ban applies to these situations. A formal ruleset for the Contests section will be up soon for perusal.
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Hidden 9 yrs ago Post by NuttsnBolts
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I feel sorry for those that have taken the time to work on their entries and only achieve a second rate win after all the confetti and fireworks went off for the original winner. Hopefully those people will be driven even more to write more detailed, descriptive, and inspiring stories.

As for the one that cheated, I hope that you will learn from this. A cheater will always be found out, and in the end people will not want to associate with you for risk that you may take their work for your own. On a site that is so structured on community involvement, it could very quickly become lonely.
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Well, there goes my scheme to copy-paste War and Peace for the next contest.
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Well at least it was uncovered they cheated, and the prize going to the right person. It's not about winning, it's about doing some fun writing.

If all you can think about is winning, if you can't win legit don't enter! Don't selfishly steal the win from someone who actually put effort in!
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To those who plagiarize:


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Well, there goes my scheme to copy-paste War and Peace for the next contest.


Hey! That was my plan! I was just going to replace every mention of a gun with "Railgun" and call it a day!
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Hey! That was my plan! I was just going to replace every mention of a gun with "Railgun" and call it a day!


I see you're slacking off on the length of your entries.
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I see you're slacking off on the length of your entries.


At some point a device to pause time will be invented, and I will write for a hundred years straight on the longest manuscript ever created by man. When it is completed, you'll have to massively upgrade the server just to handle all the data. It will tell the story of a simple farm boy in a communist dictatorship in a magical world. The entire story. Birth to death. The climax is him stopping a battle by playing music.

And then I reveal in the author's note that the whole thing was just a reference to the Battle of Stalingrad.
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It'll be written in real time to, so every few chapters will take place in a magical communist bathroom, or a magical communist line at the bank. Every now and then, there might be a few chapters about buying topical ointments at a magical communist Walgreens.
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It'll be written in real time to, so every few chapters will take place in a magical communist bathroom, or a magical communist line at the bank. Every now and then, there might be a few chapters about buying topical ointments at a magical communist Walgreens.


Exactly. It'll be a true masterpiece.
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