The hottest topic over the weekend is plagiarism at its finest. If you are keen enough to notice, Monkey Fables and Tales and his other blogs, Sensory Overload and Obscure History are nowhere to be found- not in the EntreCard drop inbox (yours and mine), not at the No. 1 spot of the most popular blogs and never on the world wide web. This is the strangest thing that has confused me since last week.Monkey has been reigning the most popular blogs for several months and it’s hard to oust him from that sweet spot. I’ve never attempted to be in his seat though, haha! The closest I got was No. 2. A few weeks back, I didn’t see him at the No. 1 spot of the Popular Blogs. His ads were disabled. This prompted me to send a message to my friend Polly of Random Ramblings and asked her if she has noticed but she told me that he might be on a holiday. When he was back on the popular blog (not at the top spot though), I thought Polly was right.But after a couple of days of attempting to drop cards on his blogs, they were all deleted! I always get the following message: “Sorry, the blog at monfat48.blogspot.com has been removed.” I was shocked to know the reasons behind all these hullabaloo when I’ve read the post of Turnip of Turnip of Power. Much to my dismay, Monkey has been allegedly stealing nearly 100% of his posts from author Charlie Hatton. Turnip did a very great job in digging and gathering all his facts.
Has Monkey been a fraud all these time? Have we been the biggest fool? According to Joel of Big Boys Have Toys Too, EntreCard was the biggest fool of all! They have been regulating the system deleting blogs that weren’t able to pass their updated standards and here comes Monkey at the top, his allegedly fraudulent acts escaping from EntreCard’s strict scrutiny. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! What a big slap in the face!
I would love to hear Monkey’s side of the story. I hope he would elaborate further. I think we all deserve an explanation.
The strangest point to ponder on is this: If Monkey is taking his blogs on the backseat and realized that EntreCard is not for him anymore, why is there a need to delete all his blogs from Google?
Well, we could all speculate on this on-going brouhaha. I won’t be casting a stone to anyone. But one thing is for sure. Plagiarism is no place in the cyberworld and no one can ever escape from it.
The truth shall always prevail.
General Santos Time
Oh my goodness! Is he really doing the shame thing? If so, what a long time that he’s not being caught. But if not, hope we can hear his side to make things clear.
ellaine,
oww sayang naman. wala na yatang appeal pag naalis sa entrecard di ba?
Joy said…
Oh my goodness! Is he really doing the shame thing? If so, what a long time that he’s not being caught. But if not, hope we can hear his side to make things clear.
@ JOY:
Allegedly, he did, Joy. I’m looking forward to hearing his side of the story.
jessie said…
ellaine,
oww sayang naman. wala na yatang appeal pag naalis sa entrecard di ba?
@ JESSIE:
Kuya, he wasn’t actually deleted from EntreCard. He deleted his blogs from Google. Some say he did it to save his face from humiliation. But who knows? Gusto ko pa ring marinig ang panig nya.
I don’t really know much about him sis. I noticed his blog being popular in EC. If all the stories about his blog are true then it’s a shame. But anyway, he should let his side be heard.
Interesting current blogging event :]
Wow, thanks for the heads up Lainy! I checked out the links u provided and yup, it looks like stolen goods to me!
Well done you Lainy dear – aren’t you a Sherlock Holmes????
But Oh what a tadoo – to think that we have all been thinking just how amazing Monkey is to get to the top and stay at the top and be writing post after post daily on each of his blogs …….. not to mention all the dropping for each of his blogs. Superman couldn’t have done more and yet now we find he was a cheat and a fraud with no opinions of his own.
Good job the rest of us have our own opinions and tales for our blogs!!!
But you and Turnip deserve a BLOG DETECTIVE BADGE …. perhaps there is someone out there with the artistic ability to make you both one to place onto your blogs.
Well done to both of you!
twinks said…
I don’t really know much about him sis. I noticed his blog being popular in EC. If all the stories about his blog are true then it’s a shame. But anyway, he should let his side be heard.
Interesting current blogging event :]
@ TWINKS:
I don’t know him personally as well other than him being my regular dropper and I always reciprocate his drops. He never comments on blog posts, I am speaking for myself though, hehe. He made me laugh quite a few times before. It would be a shame if all the allegations were true.
Mariuca said…
Wow, thanks for the heads up Lainy! I checked out the links u provided and yup, it looks like stolen goods to me!
@ MARIUCA:
Marzie Dearie, it’s really hard for me to have a close scrutiny if they are all indeed stolen because his blog is no longer there. But as Charlie Hatton claims, most of Monkey’s posts were taken out from his blog. Good thing he was able to track it down.
Yeah, I noticed that too.
Did the monkey decide to become a monk? You know a hermit monk.
If so that means kaput forever laahhh
Polly said…
Well done you Lainy dear – aren’t you a Sherlock Holmes????
But Oh what a tadoo – to think that we have all been thinking just how amazing Monkey is to get to the top and stay at the top and be writing post after post daily on each of his blogs …….. not to mention all the dropping for each of his blogs. Superman couldn’t have done more and yet now we find he was a cheat and a fraud with no opinions of his own.
Good job the rest of us have our own opinions and tales for our blogs!!!
But you and Turnip deserve a BLOG DETECTIVE BADGE …. perhaps there is someone out there with the artistic ability to make you both one to place onto your blogs.
Well done to both of you!
@ POLLY:
Hahaha! I’m no detective, Polly but my curiousity was satisfactorily asnwered when Turnip made a post out of Monkey’s diasppering act. No one does it better than Turnip of Power
But you are indeed right! We used to believe that Monkey some kind of a Superman for having accomplished so much- maintaining his supremacy- dropping cards to more than a thousand blogs, write entries everyday for his 4 blogs and still be at the top. That is quite amazing! But from the looks of it, he’s a fake Superman if all accusations were ture.
I have always been telling you that you deserve to be there at the No. 1 spot, that is speaking without bias, hehe!
Yeah, we must be proud of the stories we have been telling tje world. At least we know in our hearts we aren’t fraud and we haven’t cheated anyone.
Ohh, only Turnip deserves the detective badge Polly, hehe! He was able to dug deep into this and I salute him for a job well done!
I’m sorry I wasn’t able to reply to your message at the EC inbox that soon, Polly. I was writing this post when I saw it at noontime today. I thought of posting this first before sending you my reply
I will keep in touch.
Windmill said…
Yeah, I noticed that too.
Did the monkey decide to become a monk? You know a hermit monk.
If so that means kaput forever laahhh
@ WINDMILL:
Hahahahaha! There you go again, Windy! The Monkey that is now a Monk,oh WOW! Nice new name for a blog, hahahaha!
Kaput indeed! Goodbye bliss!
talaga lainy? ouch and awwww! i did click ur links here and omg, what a shame monkey has done! well, as all of ur commentors said, it would be great to hear monkey’s side. i have been in awe of his dropping career, too, but look what he’s done all throughout? wow, this is unbelievable! thanks for sharing sis!
Hi. Thanks for sharing this info.
I noticed his blog was missing and wrote a brief note about it. Then, when I visited you, I read your post and visited Turnip blog.
If what´s claimed is true, it got me good, lol.
A good Monday xx
“”rare*jonRez”" said…
talaga lainy? ouch and awwww! i did click ur links here and omg, what a shame monkey has done! well, as all of ur commentors said, it would be great to hear monkey’s side. i have been in awe of his dropping career, too, but look what he’s done all throughout? wow, this is unbelievable! thanks for sharing sis!
@ RARE JONREZ:
I was shocked myself too, Sis! The entire time he was fooling all of us. I think that is so gross, if indeed all of the accusations were true.
Mizé said…
Hi. Thanks for sharing this info.
I noticed his blog was missing and wrote a brief note about it. Then, when I visited you, I read your post and visited Turnip blog.
If what´s claimed is true, it got me good, lol.
A good Monday xx
@ MIZE:
I thought you wrote a good MONKEY, hahaha! I got really disoriented this early in the morning, hehe! I’m thinking what sanctions could EC impose on blogs that are guilty of plagiarism. I don’t think deleting them at EntreCard is enough. DO I sound too harsh? hehe!
omg, if this is true is a shame. i hope we hear monkey’s side of story.
naku! kaya we should be very careful with what we post and attribute borrowed ideas to the real owner.