Justice prevails at last!

[lindenharp]

Just a little over a year ago, dshael reported that polgarawolf had posted a Doctor Who story on fanfiction.net that contained text stolen from a variety of DW fan writers, including dameruth, cherryice, Joolz, and myself. On the theory that plagiarists are often repeat offenders, several of us went digging and discovered that a large number of her other stories (mostly Star Wars) contained bits plagiarized from many authors in many different fandoms, as well as passages from published novels.

It's a long, messy tale, and if you don't already know the details you can find them here, here, here, and here.



Briefly, Polgarawolf denied plagiarizing anything, complained on her LJ that her accusers were trolls and bullies, and deleted responses containing proof.  She also posted to the thread in stop_plagiarism, threatening to sue for libel if the report on her wasn't removed.  (It wasn't and she didn't.)

Unfortunately, the mods on fanfiction.net don't always respond to complaints.  The plagiarized stories remained up.

Today, I saw a bunch of comments on fanficrants that the FFN mods had been deleting stories with summaries that were not G-rated.  I wondered if they'd been tending to other problems, and went to look.

Polgarawolf's FFN account is gone.  "User is no longer an active member."  My reaction is nicely expressed below:

Comments

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!!!

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

*grins*

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

so glad to hear you've had good news in this

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[dshael.livejournal.com]

This calls for celebration! I'll go buy some dancing shoes, hang on... *g*

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

While you get the shoes, I'll pour the champagne. (Into glasses, not the shoes.)

[dshael.livejournal.com]

...thank you for the clarification. (ROFL)

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

Great!

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

And also yippee!

[garpu.livejournal.com]

I remember when it was happening. She was a nasty (and delusional) piece of work.

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

Yes. Wishing a horrible, slow, painful death from cancer on her accusers was especially creepy.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was just a little bit beyond the pale.

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

Because no-one can say it better than Josh Lyman (paraphrasing):

Victory is ours, victory is ours. Great day in the morning, people, victory is ours.

We drink from the keg of glory. Bring us the finest muffins and bagels in all the land.

Erm. Well. Anyway - that's wonderful news!

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

Muffins and bagels and champagne! Let the wild rumpus begin!

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

Wah-HOO! *throws confetti everywhere*

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

*dances through the confetti*

*hands rose_cat a broom*

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

*rose_cat sweeps up and then uses the bathroom* :p

[dameruth.livejournal.com]

Very cool! I'm playing catch-up from the weekend (still at something like "skip=100," but getting there . . .), and this was a nice bit of news to run across. Thanks for the update! :D