Why??

First - for our Jewish readers - Good Passover to you. For our Hindu readers a joyous Holi to you. For our Zoroastrian readers (of the Fasli tradition) a blessed Khordad Sal.

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And now - the post title - why?? Why do people plagiarise?? Why steal somebody else's writing and pretend it's yours?? What possible satisfaction can you get from it?? If you get dozens of compliments telling you it's a great story, and you're a great writer, how can it possibly make you happy?? Or make you feel proud?? Or give you any feelings of satisfaction??

Because it isn't you they're praising. Those are not your compliments. They're praising the real writer of the story.

So why do it??

More puzzling - why do it twice?? With the same story. After you've already been caught once. It isn't just cheating - it's stealing. You're not a writer. You're a thief. A dirty little, low-down, cowardly thief. And you know who you are.

And you're an idiot. You steal a story. One written by a BNF - one of the biggest BNFs in that fandom. An original story. A really recognisable story. And you didn't change a word of it. Just the names. Did you think you wouldn't get caught?? And then when you got caught and the story (and account) were deleted, you're doubly stupid enough to post it again under a different name!!

And just to prove you're triply stupid you've used a story that has been published as a book. And which has sold a great many copies. Did you want to destroy the site you posted your story on?? Do you have any idea what a publishing company can do to a website that plagiarises a published book?? FanFiction.net might host millions of stories but a determined lawyer can still pull the plug on it overnight for things like that. And tens of thousands of people who post there will lose everything.

You've proved yourself to be monumentally stupid - don't demonstrate that you're a selfish and self-centred little prat as well. Don't steal. Write your own story.

I really don't get it. How can anybody feel pleasure when they know they've stolen another's work, how can they enjoy the praise when they know it's not theirs?? It baffles me.

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