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Warning shots — Google Algorithms
So I’ve just been notified about my posts. Google’s algorithms seem to think I’m copying somebody else’s posts.
Funny thing, when I hunt backwards to the correclations it’s making, guess who’s posts I’m copying from? The speech and word patterns are similiar enough to be considered an indirect copy, there are some solid small blocks of text that are repeated or recreated without change.
I was horrified.
Me? Plagarizing? Not even a little bit.
BUT! Google can’t be wrong can they? Surely there has to be some mistake, these posts aren’t mine, but here they are, posted ages ago, looking like my posts. It looks like I copied them directly.
Turns out, I did. I copied these posts from…..
Myself. See, I had a public free wordpress blog ages ago, on recovery and the Al-anon program, and the posts had solid repetitive disclaimers and a section pointed to all the useful help protocols and portals and sites and such. Each post had this information displayed front and centre. When I started my most recent series of posts, I instituted the same policies, “Here is where you get help from” and then the daily content reference material, followed by a sizeable block of my personal ramblings…
