Quoted from bert *  Other stuff might be deleted at the whims of the moderator.  We can do that, you know.

I think this is a fantastic opportunity to get to know your friendly neighborhood moderators and their styles.

We could also talk about the rules of screenwriting.

Quoted from Breanne Mattson Hey Jammingirl, it’s true I let you get under my skin. I allowed myself to be drug into all the arguing and bickering. I should have been more professional than to allow that. I apologize to you for anything I said that was mean spirited. I don’t agree with you. Hell I don’t even understand half of what you’re talking about. But as I look back over my posts, I have no doubt some of my comments were meant to incite you. Mostly because I felt you were inciting me. But without a doubt I incited you a few times. And for that I publicly apologize and you can have the last word with the “get a life” comment. With that, I would like to publicly apologize to everyone, and I mean everyone, for my behavior. I’ve got a lot of work to do so I’m off. I hope everyone just cools off and everything can get back to normal soon. Me, I’ve had it until things calm down. Breanne

good on ya!

This not from Mars, so I believe, as it's the only instance I've seen of where plagiarism was mentioned:

Quoted from JamminGirl LORI (15) is an artfully bedraggled burnout kid. I know you love the "JUNO" script but did you have to copy Diablo Cody's description of Juno to the 'T'? Sorry, I wont read  this any further.

This came from a review of 'Riverside Afternoon', And truly, if the exact description from a screenplay was swiped, I'd say that falls into the realm of plagiarism.  I've never read or seen Juno, so I have no idea.

Yes, that was lifted from Juno.  Mystery solved.  Thank you, Steven.

Now, with a brief, stern wag of my finger to the author of "Riverside Afternoon", we move on.

OK. I did write Riverside afternnoon. As you all know, English is not my first language. I did what I could to write a decent screenplay, translating my precise vision of the film in English words. I know language barrier is a additional problem to me. I actually did'nt write anything in English for about one year and I did it in one day.

I just borrowed 4 words from a script because in the rush it was the best way to describe the character. IMHO it wasn't plagiarism. Surely an hasty stupidity.

I think a lot of people knows me around here and knows my previous work. I NEVER plagiarized anyone in my life. How can some abrasive little &@%#£ can destroy a script she even never read. She admitted. I'm really pi**ed to be treated as an underdog writer for a stupid 4 words description, but I have more serious problems in head to discuss with someone who can't help arguing with everybody around.

Michel

Bert, I didn't put my name on the script, and I don't see where it is available either.  Someone mentioned that when you "right click" on the title, it shows up.  It doesn't for me.  I don't know how Giles became aware of this information.  It seems to me that he was told by someone else, after he reviewed it positively.

I also don't know why,minutes after he deleted his review and rewrote it, that Hig came out of nowhere, calling my script a waste, or whatever his words were and said it was written by me, and that he wouldn't read it and advised others not to as well.  It's been a bashfest ever since.

As I said earlier, smells like floating, dead carp to me.

I too apologize to each and everyone that has been affected by all this back and forth nonsense.

I also apologize to the writers of the 5 scripts that I reviewed very poorly and insensitively.  I mean that.  There was no reason for me to be like that.

I run OWC for fun. I never guessed there could some KGB agents among the reviewers. This is the first OWC I run for one year. The last one was Halloween and the carved pumpking. I did several before but the mood wasn't the same. I'm deeply desappointed to feel the way I feel right now. By chance, some old friends still wander around and their welcome cheered me up. But I don't if I'm going to stick around.

Quoted from michel I never guessed there could some KGB agents among the reviewers.

So now the thread turns into "Screenwriter’s Anonymous".

[Plagiarism alert:  Joke stolen from Cornetto]

Please do not beat yourself up over this, Mical.  The transgression was small, and your reputation precedes you.

But it is not a KGB thing, either.

It is a tiny lesson to everyone:  Somebody out there, somewhere, will always catch you.

Never, ever do it.

I hope the one who commited all this should be happy? She had a good night. Apologies from Breanne. Mea Culpa from myself. Who will be the next?

Quoted from Dreamscale Bert, I didn't put my name on the script, and I don't see where it is available either.  Someone mentioned that when you "right click" on the title, it shows up.  It doesn't for me.  I don't know how Giles became aware of this information.  It seems to me that he was told by someone else, after he reviewed it positively.

From the properties of DownUnder.pdf

That doesn't show up when I right click on it.  What am I missing here?  I only have "General" in properties.  What did I do wrong?  And why did Hig post about it being from me?

Michel, let it go.  It's no big deal.  It is a good lesson, as Bert said, though.

Yeah, leave it to the other computer geek to know about properties. Yes, boys and girls, your program defaults the properties to the user info you registered it with. This is why I changed my properties prior to saving. Of course, I checked my properties after saving and the damn thing chnged itself back, but I didn't much care after that.

Right click on the pdf and go down to document properties. Pretty easy.

This has been amusing, you know. It's funnier than Pia trying to write a romance or Mike dabbling in horror. Funnier than trying to convince an X-Box owner that Metroid Prime is better than Halo. Funnier than Paris Hilton trying to say "no." ...d'oh...

Oh, and borrowing a description of a character from the screenplay is plagiarism? Oh, dear Lord. Please can we drop that one?

OK, now I get it.  Right click on the actual opened PDF.  This is obviously an issue and takes away all the integrity of this anonymous challenge.  I had no idea...and will not use it going forward either.  Too bad that's not the case for others in here.

Quoted from George Willson It's funnier than...Mike dabbling in horror.

Oh c'mon!  At least go with a genre I've never written.  Sci-Fi is safe.

Quoted from Grandma Bear That was actually a spoiler I didn't really enjoy...

Then don't use it. I never do. I know about it, and so I tried to ensure my script woudln't have my name on it.

Quoted from Shelton At least go with a genre I've never written.  Sci-Fi is safe.

I think I could safely say funnier than nearly anyone writing sci-fi. That's a freakin' dangerous genre to dabble in just because of how crazy it gets. Producers with no money always go horror or sci-fi, and sci-fi is expensive to do right. They really shouldn't.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go watch Plan 9 From Outer Space.

EDIT: Okay, I lied. I actually just put on Tol'able David from 1921.