Just a list of tips for how to spot plagiarized fanfics
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There are no comments or chapter comments
- Thieves love deleting chapter comments to avoid being called out. If a fic has no chapter comments or paragraph comments in multiple chapters, then the author is actively deleting comments which is very sus.
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You can recall reading a similar plot before
- If you have a feeling that you've already read a book under a different name, go to google and search for a paragraph or line from the fic in quotation marks ("..."). This will show you if there are any other books with the same exact wording. Do it again in a different chapter to make sure it is plagiarized.
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Your comments or reviews asking about whether the story is copied get deleted
- This happens when the thief doesn't want their other readers to find out the story is stolen. You should go on their profile to a fic that they are not the author of (so that they can't delete your comment without deleting theirs) and ask them. If they delete their comments, they are likely plagiarizing.
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Funny dots or other characters before the chapter
- I don't know why but I've observed a lot of plagiarized fics doing this.
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Lots of support and power stones from accounts that have never commented before or commented on a few fics.
- I guess they're trying to make you think it's good because a lot of people also read it or something.
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Suggested by Finnish_man:
- Copy and paste the synopsis or the first chapter into Google and look if you find the original