?Chapter 42: Episode 42 Zero Tolerance for Plagiarism 4 Chapter 42: Episode 42 Zero Tolerance for Plagiarism 4 “Huh? Storage full?” It’s been less than a month since we started using it, and the 200MB of space is already full? Isn’t that cap reached a little too quickly?
“Isn’t it all because of those cosers causing trouble…” Kang Siyin said irritably.
“What’s wrong with us cosers?” Yao Shanshan took offense to that remark and responded unhappily.
“Hey, I wasn’t talking about you… I was talking about those on the forum…” Kang Siyin hurriedly explained, fearing that if the misunderstanding escalated, things would turn sour.
“Them, yeah… Indeed, cosplayers just upload the photos as large as they are, the higher the resolution the better, and no one likes compressing images…” Yao Shanshan said helplessly.
After all, cosplayers like to upload large, high-resolution pictures for the sake of the aesthetics, which quickly take up a lot of the forum’s space, and it won’t be long before it runs out.
“This is my fault… I was so focused on bringing people in to boost traffic that I didn’t consider the storage issue…” Zhou Xueyin spoke in self-reproach, “How about starting now? Let’s prohibit users who are not at the management level from uploading images…”
“It seems we have no other choice…” Despite great reluctance, they had to disable the image upload function for the sake of funding.
After Zhou Xueyin published the notice prohibiting image uploads, although a small portion of users expressed protests, the majority still showed understanding and support.
Moreover, some users even provided references to some free online photo albums in their replies, immediately solving the biggest issue for them.
At the same time, Yao Shanshan also crafted a set of templates based on the existing forum layout.
Opening a post was like flipping through a magazine, with pictures nested within the text, making it pleasing to the eye. The posts’ presentation was also very innovative and appeared more high-end compared to other forums that still used the text + image format.
However, this type of layout required a large amount of image processing, and the most significant daily workload was image cutouts.
It was precisely because of this distinctive layout for the posts that even those who came to plagiarize content were reluctant to ruin the aesthetic of the pages. Instead, they screencapped entire posts as images and posted them on their forums or websites.
Although many forums tried to imitate their layout, they only managed to copy it superficially. Even with the layout, it still looked like an awkward imitation…
After persisting with this posting format for a while, a large number of netizens were attracted to the forum, and it gradually became more lively.
Although the copying did not cease, since the forum traffic had steadily increased, the four of them turned a blind eye to the plagiarists, merely banning IDs that seemed like plagiarists from time to time.
“Huh? What the heck? Who’s making this absurd joke? They’re accusing us of plagiarism?” That night, as Li Jixiang was about to go to bed, she leapt up from the mattress and nearly hit the ceiling.
“What’s wrong with Jixiang? How come we’re being accused of plagiarism?” Zhou Xueyin, about to climb into bed, paused with one foot on the ladder, motionless.
“I was chatting on the phone with Old Li, and he told me that just a moment ago, a bunch of people on the forum started saying we were plagiarizing content from a fashion magazine?” Li Jixiang showed Zhou Xueyin the text message Li Ranxu had sent her, completely baffled, “We’re all against plagiarism, how could we possibly copy someone else’s content?”
“No way, I have to boot up my computer and check this out…” As soon as they were accused of plagiarizing from a magazine, Zhou Xueyin lost all desire to sleep. She wanted to see for herself who was spreading these rumors.
“Let’s go check it out as well…” The other three, seeing Zhou Xueyin huffily head towards the work area, also climbed out of bed and ran over together.
’51buy has no shame! Blatantly plagiarizing the latest issue of Fashion Xinrui! ——by a Fashion Justice Warrior’
The group saw this post and felt that they didn’t even need to click on it to know that it was an obvious provocation.
“The poster has holes in their brain! Clearly here to stir up trouble, delete, delete, delete!” Zhou Xueyin, without a second thought, directly deleted the post and also silenced the user, “Done! Time to sleep…”
The other few were also amused and frustrated by this ignorant netizen’s behavior. It’s the 21st century, and there are still people who don’t know the production process of a magazine?
The four of them didn’t take it to heart and just turned off the lights to sleep.
However, who would have known that when they opened the forum the next day, they found their forum had been overrun by a mob demanding “an explanation.”
‘Unscrupulous website, blatantly plagiarizing Xinrui magazine content, refusing to admit it, and deleting posts! It’s everyone’s responsibility to boycott such trash forums!’
“No, seriously… Do all these people have a damn illness? Did Anding Hospital not lock their doors properly? How did they let them out?” Zhou Xueyin cursed while she deleted posts.
“It’s obviously the magazine that plagiarized our content and even used our layout. How come these readers are pinning the blame of plagiarism on us? They really need to see a neurosurgeon!” Kang Siyin was also cursing in agreement as she deleted posts. Sёarch* The N??eFire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
“My god, have these people gone mad? All the sections, all of them! They’re all the same content, crazily posted!” Li Jixiang opened all the sections of the forum and found without exception that each one had been raided.
“Ah!!! It’s not just about the raid. Even under the content we posted before, they are hurling abuses, and it’s incredibly vile…” Yao Shanshan, like someone seeing cockroaches, looked at these disgusting comments and carefully hit the delete key.
“Everyone stop, this isn’t working, I’ll delete them directly from the backend! KK, set up some restrictions for forum registration, then block all these IDs and their IPs after! Adjust the posting interval as well…” Zhou Xueyin, frowning, gave her orders.
They had previously avoided putting too many restrictions on user registration, mainly for convenience, but now it seems that this also made things convenient for troublemakers.
Now it seems they truly had to impose restrictions.
“Damn it… here they come again…” Kang Siyin hadn’t even managed to deal with the last wave of troublemakers when the next one arrived, “Their IPs are not the same, it’s difficult to ban them.”
“Just set it up, no posting allowed within half an hour of registering!” Zhou Xueyin made a swift decision.
“Okay!” As Kang Siyin clicked save, the forum returned to calm.
“Phew…” Zhou Xueyin felt that dealing with this wave of troublemakers was more thrilling than a roller coaster ride, with her hands and feet cold. Though she felt a rush of satisfaction from mass-deleting posts, she was also scared they would exploit the issue further, her heart pounding hard.
“Announcement: 51buy absolutely does not plagiarize from any magazine or website! We kindly ask netizens to check our posting times against the release times of the magazines! Should anyone continue to exploit this situation, do not blame us for taking legal action!” Zhou Xueyin issued a site-wide announcement, hoping to deter those brainless netizens looking for trouble once and for all.
“This is absolutely nonsensical. What kind of magazine is this? By the looks of it, do they want to take us down? How would bringing us down benefit them at all? They’re sick in the head! Starve me to death, I’m going to make a bowl of noodles…” Zhou Xueyin grumbled as she went to the kitchen to make noodles.