To keep myself from losing track of:
all the contests I've entered,
all the contests I've volunteered myself as a judge (or let myself be voluntold into judging),
all the books I've had to read as a contestant or as a judge,
all the deadlines,
a...
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It'll be a very short page.
1. Get my pronouns right.
2. My judge very obviously used AI. You can tell because the parts of her reviews that were AI-generated were bland but readable; her own work, meanwhile, was ungrammatical and almost impossible to understand. The fact that she doesn't seem to understand the difference between spelling/grammar check (a function of word processing) and AI rewriting (a form of plagiarism) is both sad and appalling.
Also, while I doubt that she's even half as emotionally traumatized as she claims to be, if she is suffering emotional pain from being outed as a plagiarist, good. Maybe it will teach her to stop plagiarizing. When I was her age, plagiarism got you expelled from school or from university if you were caught doing it. You got called before an honour council and read the riot act, too. Talk about public shaming...
3. I have a name. You will call me by my name.
4. I'll make it easy for you. I'm going to unfollow and block you now. You have my permission to blacklist me. I'll take it as a compliment.
Regards, Sera
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UPDATE - Why, yes, I was, in fact, blocked. And yes, I did take it as a compliment. I am proud to be blocked by plagiarists, and by their apologists and protectors.
