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Plagiarism Controversy Thread
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I maybe haven't looked into this story as much as I could but from a half an hour reading about it and speaking as a professional who has worked in a reasonable creative space (copywriter and then creative team manager in a very big marketing team) I do think some of the criticism of this guy is way overblown.
Copying and pasting the job specs for his LinkedIn is no sin at all in the real world. The rest of what he did was wrong (blatantly plagiarising, as opposed to taking inspiration, which again is no sin) and he rightfully lost his job, but continuing to hound him about it or saying that he's insulted all people in his industry, games reviewers, etc... is just bizarre and strikes me as childish or immature.
In every big company in the world there are many people who have learned to get by by doing the minimum required, or by making a show of putting in the effort but not actually doing a tap, or by making the right friends, or passing off the work of others as their own. It sucks, particularly if you're picking up the slack for them, whether you know it or not, but that's the way of the world. This OTT storm of criticism just seems totally at odds with what would happen in most industries and professionals when someone is discovered ducking work like this (the person would be quietly moved on, would hopefully learn their lesson and get a job elsewhere without their life being ruined), it comes across as very strange to me.
The former co-workers and others who feel the need to cleanse their souls by airing their own dirty laundry about the guy come across as worse than Filip himself, drama queens who need their own bit of the spotlight. It's the worst form of American millennial culture imaginable
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I maybe haven't looked into this story as much as I could but from a half an hour reading about it and speaking as a professional who has worked in a reasonable creative space (copywriter and then creative team manager in a very big marketing team) I do think some of the criticism of this guy is way overblown.
Copying and pasting the job specs for his LinkedIn is no sin at all in the real world. The rest of what he did was wrong (blatantly plagiarising, as opposed to taking inspiration, which again is no sin) and he rightfully lost his job, but continuing to hound him about it or saying that he's insulted all people in his industry, games reviewers, etc... is just bizarre and strikes me as childish or immature.
In every big company in the world there are many people who have learned to get by by doing the minimum required, or by making a show of putting in the effort but not actually doing a tap, or by making the right friends, or passing off the work of others as their own. It sucks, particularly if you're picking up the slack for them, whether you know it or not, but that's the way of the world. This OTT storm of criticism just seems totally at odds with what would happen in most industries and professionals when someone is discovered ducking work like this (the person would be quietly moved on, would hopefully learn their lesson and get a job elsewhere without their life being ruined), it comes across as very strange to me.
The former co-workers and others who feel the need to cleanse their souls by airing their own dirty laundry about the guy come across as worse than Filip himself, drama queens who need their own bit of the spotlight. It's the worst form of American millennial culture imaginable
I think the only reason that this is still a story is because he put up that non apology,did not admit to what he had done and then really sealed the deal by challenging one of the best games journalists out there to find more stuff,which was basically asking the entire internet to search for more examples. They duly obliged.. Zero sympathy..0 -
Yep, but he shot himself in the foot with a disingenuous non-apology apology video and challenging Jason Schreier and Kotaku to find more examples of plagiarism.
If he didn't hadn't done those things, he could have skulked into the shadows and found a new job easily enough in a few months.
As it stands, he will be hard pressed to get a job in games journalism again.
Edit: ^^ What Phil said. 0 -
The former co-workers and others who feel the need to cleanse their souls by airing their own dirty laundry about the guy come across as worse than Filip himself, drama queens who need their own bit of the spotlight. It's the worst form of American millennial culture imaginable
Worse than him? I don't know about anyone else, but I'd regard chronic plagiarism as worse than seeking a bit of attention (if that is indeed their motivation).0 -
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Guess who published a new video yesterday? It's a review video with another non-apology apology attached (the apology is a pinned comment). Tellingly, he has disabled the thumbs up/thumbs down icons for the video too...
To be fair, the video is decent and I'm interested in the products he reviewed.
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Guess who published a new video yesterday? It's a review video with another non-apology apology attached (the apology is a pinned comment). Tellingly, he has disabled the thumbs up/thumbs down icons for the video too...
To be fair, the video is decent and I'm interested in the products he reviewed.
Not really a fan of his video style myself.
Comments are as you'd imagine they'd be. Surprised he didn't disable comments, maybe it was worth it for the 3 or 4 positive posts in a sea of dislike.Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.
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Another apology. In fairness, this is a lot more direct, it is very specific, it seems sincere and it's done on one take (no jump cuts).
I think he should have included Jason Schreier though.
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Another apology. In fairness, this is a lot more direct, it is very specific, it seems sincere and it's done on one take (no jump cuts).
I think he should have included Jason Schreier though.
That was unexpected! Better late than never, though I wonder if it's too late for him to try and rebuild his career.0 -
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