OC gives a bad name

I think the OC checker doesn't work well. I noticed is a few days ago and some other people mentioned it too. One moment a post is exclusive, the next it's not. As a moderator I can not take it seriously. It might be bugs and solved (I wrote again) but if we all focus on the EXC above a post only it won't do a writer or this platform any good.

I doubt it is about "sometimes" and if so I like to see the sources. Might be it's not important to you and many others but to me it is.

I noticed if you save it as a draft first (which I do at times) something goes wrong too.🤔

That's true. I've noticed it too.

I think it's saver to write offline and copy-paste your text when it's finished. I still have some draft left, one I cannot even delete.

That's what I do most of the time now. Sometimes, the automatic draft saver saves at the beginning of the article and when I restore, most of my work wasn't saved. It is tiring.

I noticed the automatic saver too. It wasn't there as I started, can be helpful if my connection or power is gone but not if the draft is the original content.

In my case, a longer sentence with the names of my dog and a schoolmate turned out to be plagiarism. To me, it's hard to believe someone else, except me, used it. If it's me this means the OC checks what I wrote with my own content, in this case, my draft. I use this option to save the article for later and keep it safe if I lose my internet connection. I believe the draft causes the problem.

I was wondering about that, if the checker would go through your own texts and call you a cheater based on earlier articles you've written that might contain similar language. Because, you know, people tend to speak and write in a certain manner. I repeat myself often, too.

In the community groups I started I left the Originality Checker box unchecked. I already know this kind of software will create more trouble than it's worth.

What does it mean for a user when their work isn't deemed exclusive, by the way?

If the article is not EXC I doubt it has any consequences the way it is now unless you try to submit to a community and are rejected for being a plagiarist.

If the EXC isn't blue it means the post is not published on read.cash first or it's plagiarism.

A moderator will see the OC button red and if you click on it a list of links will be shown. In some cases links to a different account of the author, at times a long list with names of sites...

In many cases, you already feel while reading if it's about plagiarism. Especially if you know or read someone. The comments are given, short notes, etc tell a lot about their own writing style, interests, etc.

For now I will give up on it. I don't like to be accused of plagiarism and I don't like to be the bringer of bad news either. My intuition will tell me in most cases if something is wrong and if so I can check it in different ways.

I noticed articles saved as draft first seem to be nonexclusive too.

Thanks for your comment. 👍💕

I hadn't noticed that with drafts. I almost always keep my articles as drafts. I will keep an eye on that. But yes... when this OC checker was new I once received a notification that my article "this or that" had been discovered to be plagiarism and would not give any points. When I asked what was really going on, they found that it had found a match, but that was the article that was checked. It was plagiarised from itself! It was a bug, they said, which was then fixed. That can have been that the OC detector found the draft and classed my article as plagiarism of the draft to the very same article! That was complicated to explain, but I hope you get the meaning.

I don't like being accused of plagiarism either. Fact is that I became quite upset and wondered what the hell was going on. I have never stolen anything in my whole life. I did get a correction that time, but what you mention here, that material is first classed as original and then suddenly changed to plagiarism is something new to me and it sounds quite grotesque.

I understand what you explained. If it comes to the drafts I am not the only one who noticed it. I think somehow it does checks with the draft. Not with a few words with longer sentences.

I am not willing to rewrite my article for three days and end up deleting it like @heartbeat1515 did just because of the OC checker.

I am checking since she mentioned this issue frequently and so does she and I see the EXC go on and disappear and with some luck it shows up again.

It all can be caused by bugs and the improvements but if you moderate, visit a post at the wrong moment action is required. It doesn't feel great if you tell others you do not accept nonexclusive content and you are labeled as a plagiarist yourself. I heard this news from others.

It made me sad that I deleted the articles. I did not copy anything from anywhere else except for the lyric that I borrowed and I already put citation for it. I edited it a few times and lastly, I gave up.

You shouldn't delete what you wrote. It's not somewhere left in your notes or memory of your computer. If you know it's yours you can post it or post it somewhere else (first, ). Next, you can add a link on which account of yours you posted it plus add the info it's labeled as nonexclusive and it's not!

Bugs can not be found if we do not report it and I am not willing to throw away days of work unless I am not satisfied with it.

That is the biggest mistake I made. I did not save it anywhere else.

If it's still in your mind you might be able to write it better and faster again. It's what I frequently need to do if I write online instead of in my notes and power or connection is gone.

I think I still have it.

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No, wakeupkitty is right, always save your material. The first thing you should do is to complain to readcash, If nothing better, they can fix it on a case by case basis if it is a bug.

Then, never delete finished work. If you cannot use it now or here, perhaps you can use it later or somewhere else.

I have copies of my articles. I mostly write offline in the first place and copy paste into readcash, but even if I didn't. I would save copies somewhere, What if readcash collapses and the site disappears? All your work lost. Hours of writing, and much of what you write you can use somewhere else. If you have it saved.

The last part of your comment awakens me. I saved some but not all. I am going to make a back up after this.

WordPress is a good place to save it too if you do not have an sd card or USB stick.

I have a USB stick but it is mostly used for work.

No, it doesn't feel great. Somehow, one must be clean oneself before being able to blame others for not being so.

Hopefully this problem will be solved asap.

Isn't this what I wrote about the other time? When the OC detector fails, now it's obvious it can not be trusted. Even your own work can now be flagged as non original. This makes moderating a more difficult task. Now not just that it fails to recognize original content, it's also failing to detect plagiarize articles. I have seen it, as I wrote in my article, a clearly copy paste article was passed to be original just for changing the topic. How I detect this was that I read the article on my Luno wallet that same day and someone posted it here by changing the topic only and it was flagged by the OC detector.

Yes, I remember you wrote about it too.