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jeremy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:19:04 -0000

hey, i don't know what the hell you're talking about but i've been a part of a the opendiary community for 6 years and i've never plagiarised ANYTHING. the website's been hacked into on multiple occasions, WORK OF MINE HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM ME THAT THEY COULD NOT RECOVER. and now this attack?! yeah, i'm sure there are some people on it that plaigarize but i'm not one of them, and there's no way anyone could ever pull off being me.

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Tams Oxymoronic Life — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:22:23 -0000

I have been trying to access the site for two days and all I get is an error message. But this site came up on Google searching so I just have to put in my two cents.
So, there have been issues in the past with open diary going offline? How often does this happen? This worries me.
Also, on the note of plagiarism, I believe that everyone is guilty of it at some point or another, but as a library worker I can tell you, most people do not even know what plagiarism is. I know it was never emphasized in any of my classrooms. So you will also need to take into consideration that this is a problem that will consistently get better over time. You can not expect the world to change overnight, and as a library worker I can tell you that you can not count on anyone to pay attention to more than they care about. If they are not concerned with their work getting plagiarized I guarantee that they will not pay attention to anyone who does care about their work. Do not get me wrong, I do agree that plagiarizing is very bad, but I am also a firm believer that if they know better, karma will get them in the end.

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KJ — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:27:29 -0000

Looks like OD has shed some light on it themselves:

"On Monday afternoon, during a routine system reset, our webserver experienced a failure of one of its drive arrays. There has been no loss of diary data, because this failure did not occur on our data servers (and if it had, we would have restored it from a backup anyways). The outage in the webserver has caused Open Diary to be offline since that time.

In any case, the sysadmins spent today trying to rebuild the server and get it back online, but have decided this evening to completely replace it. This process will take some additional hours, but will ensure that the site will run correctly when it does come back online.

We appreciate your patience during this time, and will do everything possible to have OD up and running again as soon as possible.

Thanks, The DiaryMaster"

I figured it was a server issue. Don't be fooled into believing this was a sudden and unexpected issue though - they were well aware that there have been server problems and have ignored them. It's their fault this resulted in the site completely crashing. When's the last time you saw ebay.com or google.com offline for 3 days? Exactly.

Anyway, I digress. As soon as I can get back to my diary I'm packing it up and moving elsewhere. It's just not worth the headache and complete lack of support... especially as a paid member of the site.

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papillion — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:11:08 -0000

Not to beat an old horse, or anything, but I think I missed something along the discussion about the possible reasons for OD being down. I've had OD for eight years, now, and this is the first time it has been down for so long (that I have noticed.) Can anyone shed some light on this?

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Jonathan Bailey — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:29:51 -0000

Everyone: I won't spend long on this but it appears that OpenDiary has been down for a few days and that many of its members have been gravitating here since this entry still ranks high in the search results for the site.

Let me be clear on this. I had nothing to do with the current outage. My issues with OpenDiary were resolved over two years ago. You can read the update here: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/01/04/updat...

The diary master responded, removed the site from the Villains list and have had no interaction with the site since there.

I am sorry. You are free to discuss here but I am not the cause of this in any way.

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KJ — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:21:32 -0000

Michelle,
I doubt it has anything to do with this 2 1/2 year old complaint. OD has been intermittently offline for at least two weeks now and the servers have been absolute crap with pages timing out, notes not saving, etc. My guess is the servers finally took a dump and the admins are "working feverishly" to bring the site back online. I'm not holding my breath though, they don't handle things very well over there.

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Michelle — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:09:19 -0000

I think the ICANN or whatever that bloody thing is finally looked into your complaint. The last two days I haven't been able to connect to opendiary, and neither has anybody I know. If they deleted it I'm going to be pissed. In the next few months I'm undergoing a huge chain in my life and the people I talk to on that site have helped me through some crap. How utterly selfish of you.

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rosemary — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:39:28 -0000

I am not sure what is going on with OD.

I have read, ( a few days ago while it was still up) someone was a fake on there. They created out a life about another person, who they stole their pictures from I believe to be photobucket.

The internet has unscrupulous people that I think are bolder as to take peoples pictures, ideas, etc because they are behind a computer screen.

It's sad that anything you value as worth while needs to be protected in some way.

Just like if your on a bus and expect the driver to watch your purse although your not protecting it yourself.

I did find one person who was removed after they were trying to use a diary for post secrets. I am not sure if it was because of copy infringement or if it was because of the nature of most of the secrets he was seeking out.

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Me, too — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:38:11 -0000

I found this site when looking for why I can't access OD, also. I found it very interesting, although I've never been plaigarized (that I know of) and have never plagiarized another.

I'm really hoping the site comes back up soon. If we've been hacked and I've lost another crapload of entries, I'm done, despite having paid for a lifetime subscription. And I want my money back!!

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KJ — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:22:44 -0000

Lady,
I have no clue. I found this site when I was looking for answers myself. I sure hope it hasn't been compromised again... I lost my diary in a hack that took place 4 or 5 years ago and they never did recover it for me - nor did they ever respond to my email inquiries about it.

Here's hoping the site comes back online soon and our diaries are all still there (if and) when it does.

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Peter — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:38:01 -0000

As a long time Open Diary member (since 2000), I have a feeling I know who the diarist in question is. But at the same time, I asked myself the same question as I read every Open Diary related post: where's the evidence? Do you expect us to just take your word for it?

It's one thing to stand here and shout from the rooftops that someone is guilty of plagerism, but give us a link to the offender in question and then show us whose work is being ripped off and how. I have no doubt that you have justification for your accusations, I just wish you would share some of it with us so we can 'know' for sure that your cause is just.

Do this and I will join your cause and e-mail the DM to call for that person's removal.

Peter

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Lady — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:51:43 -0000

Hmm... have been trying to get on OD since yesterday... still nothing. Has anyone heard if the site has been hacked into again? Or why they've been offline for 2 days?

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Janet — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:54:00 -0000

I've been there for over five years now, and the one or two times I've needed to contact the DiaryMaster (that's what the admin calls himself) regarding abusive diarists, he's not only noted me personally, but removed the offensive material relatively quickly. No problems here...
Maybe he's unsure of whether or not writing in one's own DIARY constitutes plagiarism...

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rosemary — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:59:42 -0000

I go to OD to just use it as a diary and just like a diary, you can either have it public or private.

If you leave a diary in the open then there is a chance a snoopy sister, brother or parent might find it. However on a larger scale with OD since it is out there for all the world to see.

Also there are plenty of options. From Private entries, favs only, to public.

Yes, stealing from someone whether it be online or not is still stealing and is wrong. However just like the real world if you leave something out, there is a chance someone might steal it.

In a perfect world, people would have original thoughts and would not think about stealing someone elses things, however we don't live in a perfect world.

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Tak — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:57:51 -0000

Hmmm, came here quite by accident but it's an interesting entry. I'll have to read more.

I've read over the comments and like many people who've posted here, I've had an OD for years and never had a problem. Probably partly because I don't start "note fights" with people or get my titties in a twist over any minor problems I might have. They always seem to get fixed sooner or later.

As for the plagarism, sure it sucks that you are (were, this comment's a bit late) having trouble contacting the DM and you're right that plagarism should be dealt with. I hope your problem got resolved.

I just have to wonder though...are you going to seriously track down everyone who might have plagarized from you? OD isn't the only blog spot out there after all. And are you going to be the internet hall monitor and complain about all the unethical behavior on the web? It'd keep you busy at least.

When you think about it, aren't there better ways to spend your valuable time? Of course I tend to spend most of my time IRL so the problems there (sickness, famine, war, domestic violence, etc) seem much more pressing than someone stealing my blog entries.

I have to agree with past noters and go a step farther to say if you don't want something plagarized don't write it down or put it out in public or say it out loud. Ideas are the easiest things to steal so if you don't want anyone taking them, keep them to yourself.

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abby — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:32:11 -0000

Is someone plagiariing you personally? If not you're sticking your nose where it doesn't belong. Sure, it's sad if someone else is pretending to be someone they're not. But why couldn't you just ignore it. Trying to get OD shut down is just selfish. You're not getting your way so you want to ruin it for everyone else. I've been writing there for along time, along with many others. We record our lives and memories there. That's not something I would want to ruin for others over someone else's childishness.

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holly — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:23:06 -0000

i really think you need to get a life. have you tried going outside lately?

oh no! watch out for teh internet police!!!11!!1!

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JB — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:07:45 -0000

Kristen,

I don't run an open diary site. Pepole from OD were taking works from a completely different site that I run. Setting my site to "Favorites Only" is not only useless, but impossible. Please understand what is going on before commenting.

Thank you.

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kristin. — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:19:36 -0000

If you don't like OD, stay out of there. And if your stuff is being stolen, go "Favorites Only" or private.

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Misty — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:31:16 -0000

I have been with Open Diary for almost 7 years now. Yes, the DM is very hard to track down, and solving issues can be a hassle.
However, because of the anonymous nature of the site, how can one prove that plagiarism is even taking place? One person can have several diaries under different titles.
For instance... if I write a famous poem and it is published and well-known (or not well known for that matter) and I also create a diary in which I post said poem, how does anybody know that it's me posting it? How would anybody know that it *wasn't* me posting it?

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pinkbarbie — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:31:59 -0000

i luv opendiary been using it for seven years. i have complained and the diary was deleted as other people complained with them so that is the way. i met one of my mates on opendiary.com

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Minerva_jones — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:40:44 -0000

Opendiary is what it is....a wank fest for whiners. I've had a diary there for some years, and it's where I go to bitch.

But it's like the Wailing Wall...no one answers when you want to seriously crank ( or wank!).

Just keep stuffing those notes in the crevices....

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Angela — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:00:55 -0000

I actually have a friend back when OD switched to "freeopendiary" and paying accounts were called "OD+" who tried everything he could to get his girlfriend's diary up and running after she was charged the fees for OD+ and then never was updated. After trying and trying in different ways to get the DM to update the girl's diary, he managed to get a hold of the DM's personal info (name, address, etc), although I'm not sure how. When he let on that he knew this info and was planning on taking legal action if something wasn't done immediately, the DM magically appeared, updated the account, and apologized for the "mix-up"...

The past of OD was pretty crappy. I'm hoping the future is better. Because OD is, by far, the best diary site. It's got awesome features and is so user-friendly a monkey could figure it out. I just wish that until the DM can get it all working beautifully, all the psycho people would start their diaries at Blogger or something. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen because those sites are NOT as user friendly, so all the idiots go to OD... Sad, but true.

Anyway, it seems as though the DM is doing what he can these days (actually making appearances and keeping accurate, active logs), so hopefully all these type of posts go away soon.

Angela

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Stephanie — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:27:14 -0000

I've been with OpenDiary for a while now, and I have to say that as with most anything you put on the internet, people are going to steal it. OpenDiary offers a "Favorites Only" and "Private" option when you write an entry, as well as a "Public" option. If you do not want your work stolen, I suggest you take the steps to protect it. Click the drop down menu and click either "Fav's Only" or "Private" and stop complaining. You're the one that put it out for the world to see in the first place.
And, do those of you that write poetry and such know that by posting your work publicly, you are practically giving up any rights to it anyway? Check with an agent and see what they say. If you have it posted to a closed community, however, you still have rights to that work.
I may be babbling, or possibly making zero sense, but think before you all start to complain about having your work stolen when you post it for everybody to see.
Thank you.

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Dee — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:34:23 -0000

Wonderful and very informative.

I have to agree with Former ODer up there. There is an EXTREME lack of response and MANY people I've 'met' on there have had their lives 'stolen' (for lack of a better word) & nothing seems to ever be resolved.