There's a copy & paste monster on the loose on BH!!
There's a copy & paste monster on the loose on BH!!
Beware guys!! Just kidding - it's not that scary. I found it a little humorous and had a little laugh so thought I'd post it here too. A bronze member by the name of "Mairemclean" has been copying & pasting others' reviews as her own (including mine) to rack up points, I suspect as part of the Beautorium craze. Harmony Queen you've been a target too hahaha!!
https://www.beautyheaven.com.au/hair/styling-products/product/beauty-full-volume-blow-dry-cr-me
https://www.beautyheaven.com.au/body-health/body-moisturiser/33613-crabtree-evelyn-avocado-olive-basil-skin-revitalising-body-lotion
EDIT: her copied reviews have now been removed.
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This totally peeves me off! Our words are our own and it hurts that others think it's ok to steal them. I hope they're banned.
How stupid to c/p directly from BH reviews, she has 18 reviews, I hope they are all closely looked at now.
Yes!! I'm worried about the rest of the reviews. If she copy & pasted them as well I'd feel ripped-off for the others too. Worst yet - if she actually participates in the Beautorium... yikes!
This is unbelievable! The honest members go to all the trouble of trying to compose a meaningful review and along comes someone who steals reviews and is rewarded for doing so.
This was an eagle-eyed pick up, makeupcatxo.
Wow that's unbelievable isn't it! What a silly person to do such a thing
She should be ashamed. I haven't written. A Lot of reviews, but I've put effort into all of them, and would be cranky to have them stolen.
And this is just a test comment, because I've noticed I'm not being allocated points for forum comments. Just seeing what happens with this one.
Forum points are capped at 50 comments.
Im checking her other reivews.....dont think she copied any of mine as yet. How rude. I do hope BH take a not of all her details and ban her permanently...ggrr
Makeupcatxo Have you emailed BH about this? It might pay to contact them directly
Looks like they've already been removed?
That's such a shame. Hopefully BH will do something about it, if they haven't already. Nothing comes up when I search her name, but I am so technologically challenged, I don't know how to search properly ;-)
Reviews seem to have been deleted but her profile is still there at this stage
https://www.beautyheaven.com.au/users/mairemclean
might be in the process of deleting it perhaps
Hi beauties,
Thank you for alerting us to this. We are looking into it and will make sure this matter is resolved.
Thanks, Steph x
Ohh good eye makeupcatxo. A few months back when BH was still listing the monthly bonus round products, I went in to review a couple of products I have tried and found it weird that there were a couple of familiar names in both product reviews. So I started clicking on other bonus round products for that month and sure enough they reviewed almost all the bonus round products.
I thought it can't be that they use so much products so I did some google search and sure enough there were identical reviews or entire sentences copied and pasted with other details added to a certain person's review/s.
I feel like it was suspicious but I didn't say anything because it could be that the person also posted reviews to the external site but it was a non AU site so idk. It just seemed a little suspicious to me that a.) the amount of products the person reviewed for the bonus round b.) a couple of her reviews were identical or had identical sentences from reviews from an external site
Glided I think that you should say something. If it was the same person writing those reviews on the external sites he/she can easily clarify on that. We like BH because we trust the source of the reviews and that the products have been tried and tested by real people. Writing fake reviews is not only unfair for BH (it's the same as stealing points/products) but also unfair for us who read the reviews.
Nice spotting. Good on you for noticing makeupcatxo. It's a pretty low act isn't it. Not only for the fact of stealing others reviews but if someone was looking at those reviews to buy something they may get mislead, obviously dependent on if the review was positive or negative. People are so silly if they think these things will forever go unnoticed.
Good spotting makeupcat!!! That's not cool at all...the whole purpose to write reviews is so others can make informed choices based on others honest opinions...to rack up points under false pretence isn't good at all!!
Unless someone is copying me, but mine are all genuine words ! Very sad to see if it is happening .
Harmony Queen thats what makeupcatxo was meaning.....this person who was doing the copy and paste of reviews had copied one of your reviews and presented it as her own :(
Yes your genuine words HQ but not those of the copy paste member...not cool
I'm really glad theres moderators here as threads/reviews can get very confusing just be looking lol
Great find, makeupcat. That's so dodgy!
That is so crazy. I have written a fair few reviews over the years on BH but they are always genuine and my own opinion of products that I have tried and tested. For me I need to be in the mood/space to write a review. I keep a list of all the products I need to review and when I feel like I am in a writing mood I do it. It is sad because I review/read reviews to give and get honest feedback about products. To think that someone would be that blatant.
That's so disappointing.
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