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IGN Pulls Ex-Editor's Posts After Dozens More Plagiarism Accusations Surface (kotaku.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The gaming site IGN is working to remove all of the posts written by former editor Filip Miucin, who was fired two weeks ago for plagiarism, after internet sleuths found that dozens of his articles and videos copied or rephrased from other websites without attribution. "We've seen enough now, both from the thread and our own searches, that we're taking down pretty much everything he did," IGN reviews editor Dan Stapleton wrote on Twitter last night, referring to a thread on the gaming forum ResetEra cataloging the allegations. For days, people had pointed out more similarities between Miucin's work and various other articles and message board posts.
The plan, IGN editors said, is to scrutinize all of the work Miucin has published since the site hired him last October, then figure out what can be restored. IGN's editors also said they hope to re-review the games he reviewed, including ports of Doom and Skyrim on Switch, both which have been replaced by the same message: "This article has been removed due to concerns over similarities to work by other authors. The author of this article is no longer employed by IGN." In the recent days, Miucin has been accused of copying a Bayonetta 2 review from Polygon, copying from a video that took word-for-word from a NeoGAF post, and a number of videos in which Miucin read excerpts from Wikipedia about topics like Super Mario Odyssey and Shantae: Half-Genie Hero as if he had written them. The list even includes an Octopath Traveler article that copied from one of his own IGN colleague's reviews, much to that writer's dismay. Even his Linkedin resume is copied from a job template website, Kotaku reported.
The plan, IGN editors said, is to scrutinize all of the work Miucin has published since the site hired him last October, then figure out what can be restored. IGN's editors also said they hope to re-review the games he reviewed, including ports of Doom and Skyrim on Switch, both which have been replaced by the same message: "This article has been removed due to concerns over similarities to work by other authors. The author of this article is no longer employed by IGN." In the recent days, Miucin has been accused of copying a Bayonetta 2 review from Polygon, copying from a video that took word-for-word from a NeoGAF post, and a number of videos in which Miucin read excerpts from Wikipedia about topics like Super Mario Odyssey and Shantae: Half-Genie Hero as if he had written them. The list even includes an Octopath Traveler article that copied from one of his own IGN colleague's reviews, much to that writer's dismay. Even his Linkedin resume is copied from a job template website, Kotaku reported.
Not that it'll be worth much, I bet he plagiarised that too.
Maybe next people can stop paying CinemaSins ten thousand dollars a day to read through a movie's TVTropes listing in chronological order.
Morality issues apart, you've gotta be pretty stupid to copy from easily available articles on the Internet and post the results in another Internet website. It's the context where is the easiest to check you've actually copied your articles.
Also his name is tarnished forever. I don't think he'll easily find another job
Because IGN didn't double down by attacking those who made the accusations of plagiarism, and didn't launch a media campaign attacking gamers.
Pretty cut and dried, IGN dealt with it swiftly and correctly.
Because IGN did something about it and fired him?
If he were a woman, we'd be hearing about how it was the mean gamers ganging up on her and making wild accusations, about how calling out journalistic lapses is really gamers displaying their blatant sexism. But because he's a man, they're taking it seriously and he's facing consequences.
after internet sleuths found that dozens of his articles and videos copied or rephrased from other websites without attribution.
Sleuths? They just googled, right?
"And I would have got away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids and your Google!"
Miucin has also been accused of copying a Bayonetta 2 review from Polygon, copying from a video that took word-for-word from a NeoGAF post, and a number of videos in which Miucin read excerpts from Wikipedia about topics like Super Mario Odyssey and Shantae: Half-Genie Hero as if he had written them. The list even includes an Octopath Traveler article that copied from one of his own IGN colleague's reviews, much to that writer's dismay. Even his Linkedin resume is copied from a job template website, Kotaku reported.
Being that they fired him, and have the big process of redacting his previous stuff, seems like journalistic integrity to me.
They could had quietly let him go. Or just put him in something where he wasn't visible anymore. Heck they could had done nothing.
Because to the general public plagiarism isn't that big of a deal.
I was more surprised that IGN has so much good will built up in integrity that they felt they needed to go full force against this guy.
That said, your job is to play video games then write up what you think about it, seems like a sweet job. Why would you just copy someones else reviews? When you get paid to nerd rage or fanboy video games.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Being that there were facts to back up their firing. I don't think if it was a women it would had reach the discrimination card. The discrimination card is more often used when they are fired for things that are not so well documented. Such as couldn't fit in company culture, or change in in business practices.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Did this guy ever exist? Resume copied, works copied, employment history?
Dunno - maybe he's just a secret agent.
Filip did a copyright claim on someone who re-uploaded his apology video cause he took it down. Filip seems a little bit of a hypocrite.
For the record, even his Linkedin resume is copied from a job template website. I've seen enough now, both from the thread and my own searches.
This story has been making the rounds on Twitter and other social media sites for a few weeks now, yet for some reason all the Gamergate assholes have been quiet and aren't 'discussing' integrity in games journalism through threats of raping and murdering the journalist in question. I wonder why that is /s
Because IGN didn't double down by attacking those who made the accusations of plagiarism, and didn't launch a media campaign attacking gamers. Pretty cut and dried, IGN dealt with it swiftly and correctly.
You're correct, of course. It was the "Gamers Are Over/Dead" articles on August 28th, 2014 that really gave Gamergate momentum.
But save your breath anyway; the parent poster is lying through his teeth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This scandal was covered early on in multiple posts on r/KotakuInAction, the main GG subreddit.
Have you followed the whole Arenanet thing? The fired female writer's sexism and vitriol towards fans was well documented. Yet all the usual suspects still played the discrimination card as hard as they could. Not to mention the New York Times recent hire who is unambiguously and openly racist and they still twisted her as the discriminated victim.
Somebody like that does not copy because he is lazy. Somebody like that copies because he is incapable of producing good content himself. Hence everything he ever did will be copied. Classical parasitic personality that got away with it for far too long. One has to ask though why IGN failed to notice this before hiring him.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Filip Miucin was running the NVC Nintendo Voice Chat podcast for a few months or so, and he was doing a damn fine job. Right when he took over, the podcast in my opinion saw great improvement. They stayed on topic more, with a tighter, content packed podcast and no filler. They also had several great discussions on all things Nintendo. Just by hearing the guy talk I could tell this guy knows his shit. To blow such a cushy job with this silliness when he was clearly capable blows my mind. I actually do miss him on the podcast. They made a few professional comments and basically ignored it and moved on, which is to be expected, but it saddens me a bit that this guy did this to himself. These kinds of jobs have to be very hard to come by.
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Apparently he even plagiarized his resume when applying for IGN.
You mean the woman who was sarcastically replying to vitriol that was thrown at her?
Nope. The racist hire was not replying to anybody. She was just "virtue" signaling her hatred of white people, unprompted.
You're not really that dumb to see the whole picture here right?
You're so dumb you bought the excuse given by the New York Times?
Lazy is as lazy does ...