?Chapter 41: Episode 41 Zero Tolerance for Plagiarism 3 Chapter 41: Episode 41 Zero Tolerance for Plagiarism 3 The first round of the struggle against the unscrupulous web transporters came to an end, with neither side gaining any advantage.


    If we must say who profited, it would be 51buy, which merely won over the sympathy of some justice-minded netizens.


    It was time for the daily internet downtime, and after dinner, Zhou Xueyin called a few people together for a meeting to devise a second-round strategy against online plagiarism.


    “We’ve used every method available, but we’re still getting our posts stolen. Do any of you have other suggestions?” Zhou Xueyin asked helplessly, looking at the other three people.


    “If they steal from us, why don’t we just steal from them?” Yao Shanshan said unabashedly.


    “Rejected! We never advocate plagiarism in the first place, and now you propose to plagiarize from them? What would visitors to our forum think?” Zhou Xueyin glared at Yao Shanshan.


    “Watermark the entire image? Even if they take the image, it won’t be easy to Photoshop away!” Kang Siyin thought about some image sites she used to visit on other platforms, all covered with watermarking to prevent theft.


    “That’s a possibility! If they don’t care and still use our images, it also counts as indirect promotion for us, right?” Zhou Xueyin nodded in satisfaction.


    “Images can be protected this way, but what about the text?” Li Jinian brought up an even more central issue.


    “Yeah, text is indeed tricky… If we turn the text into images as well, then Shanshan’s workload will be too massive.” Zhou Xueyin thought about how to solve this without increasing the workload for everyone, “But now we’ve used all available methods, so why can they still copy the text?”


    “Heh heh… they don’t necessarily copy the text.” Kang Siyin chuckled coldly, “Some websites directly screenshot the text…”


    “F***ing hell… How lazy can these people get?” Zhou Xueyin was truly fed up with these parasites who profited without lifting a finger.


    The whole room fell silent as everyone pondered how to prevent those people from continuing to steal their content.


    “Eh? I’ve got it!” A flash of inspiration struck Zhou Xueyin, “What if we do this?”


    “Do what?” The three people looked at Zhou Xueyin, who was secretly pleased with herself.


    “Let’s serialize our content! Shanbao, let me use your drawing tablet…” Zhou Xueyin opened the drawing tablet on Yao Shanshan’s computer, explaining and sketching at the same time.


    “Here’s the idea: we create a series of content, then release different content at different times each day. But we don’t release everything, only half.”


    “When will we release the rest of the content?” Yao Shanshan gazed at her, puzzled.


    “We continue with the second half of the content in the second week! And not by creating a new post, but by updating the existing one to complete it!” Zhou Xueyin answered, “This way, those who stole the post have only half, and the netizens will definitely come looking for the rest!”


    “But I’m afraid that dragging it out like this might make our netizens leave…” Kang Siyin expressed her concern.


    “And we can’t publicly declare that we’re making serialized posts; that would just invite the thieves to come back and lurk…” Li Jinian also voiced her doubts.


    “So what do you all think we should do?” Zhou Xueyin looked at the three with a defeated expression.


    The three of them returned her look with expressions that said they didn’t know what to do either. Sёar?h the Novel?ire(.)ne*t website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.


    Indeed, none of them had worked at other companies and didn’t know how such situations were handled elsewhere. They could only look at each other in bewilderment.


    “Since nobody has a better idea, shall we just give this a try first?” Zhou Xueyin asked the others earnestly, “and then switch to something else if it doesn’t work?”


    “But that means two weeks will have passed… Shouldn’t we shorten the timeline?” Kang Siyin was still afraid the netizens wouldn’t accept it, thinking to herself that if she were a visitor to a forum where she could only read half the content, she probably wouldn’t come back either.


    “What if we post today and complete it on the third day?” Zhou Xueyin suggested tentatively.


    “How about this? We use one section as a test field first?” Although willing to take the risk, Li Jinian didn’t want the whole forum to lose traffic because of excessive anti-plagiarism measures.


    “That could work…” Zhou Xueyin pondered for a moment before nodding, “But how do we evaluate the effectiveness of the anti-plagiarism measures?”


    “Yinyin, are you losing your mind because you’re mad? Just go to their website and you’ll see.” Kang Siyin patted Zhou Xueyin on the head.


    “Oh! Right! I am flustered by anger! I’ll handle this! I need to make a spreadsheet to see when they copy our content!” Zhou Xueyin stood up and went back to her computer to create an Excel spreadsheet.


    Zhou Xueyin listed out the websites that plagiarize the forum’s content in an Excel spreadsheet, recorded the approximate times of their daily updates, and then documented the view and reply counts after they reposted the content.


    She found that the primary operators of these sites typically updated content around 10 a.m. and then again at 4 p.m.


    The updates at other scattered times were likely posts by netizens.


    “Hmm…” Zhou Xueyin propped her chin, staring at the computer, pondering at length.


    “Yinyin, what kind of practice are you doing?” Li Jinian joked, already guessing, based on her knowledge of Zhou Xueyin, that she probably had another idea.


    “We update at the same time as them! If they update at 10 a.m., we update at 10:30 a.m.! If they update at 4 p.m., we complete it at 4:30 p.m.! That way they will always be eating our leftovers! Hehehe…” Zhou Xueyin laughed sinisterly.


    “So you mean, let them take the old content, then we update the new part, but not completely. When they finish updating our incomplete new post, we then complete it?” Kang Siyin clarified Zhou Xueyin’s plan.


    “Exactly! That’s the plan!” Zhou Xueyin gave a thumbs-up, looking at Kang Siyin with approval.


    “Have you thought about which section to use for the experiment? If not, how about we use the makeup section as a test field?” Li Jinian volunteered, “You know, it doesn’t really matter if clothing tips are serialized or not. Any way you pair clothes will work. But makeup is different; if you only write about drawing eyebrows and not about applying eyeshadow, those who read the post will also be annoyed, right?”


    “That’s right! That’s right! And they’ll always come back to see if there’s an update!” Yao Shanshan agreed fervently.


    “Isn’t that exactly what we want? If they see an update that’s only halfway done on another site, they’ll definitely want to know what to do next, and they might just come over here?” Zhou Xueyin’s eyes sparkled as she spoke.


    She could almost see a large wave of netizens following the cables to their forum to sign up.


    “Right, Yinyin, Yinyin…” Yao Shanshan hesitated, not wanting to spoil Zhou Xueyin’s good mood, but the issue was too pressing not to mention, “When I was uploading images this afternoon, it said the space was full…”