Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readMay 2, 2022

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I am not personally angry. I have no inner turmoil over this. I personally did not clash with JG. I do feel he acted highly inappropriately in casting dispersions on several publications and I feel that Medium did wrong not to take down his articles and suspend him, but perhaps that is actually why he stepped away for a while but without the apology he should have issued. I was very surprised to see you disseminate his false and libelous claims of pyramid schemes again after all this time. Your points about preemption were spot on. I cannot stand how soft plagiarism infects the platform. Every day as an editor I leave notes on articles demanding the writers provide citations and usually they just remove the story and some other pub publishes. If you felt the need to give JG credit for his thoughts on plagiarism, I can understand that. However, I do not understand including links to his libelous articles and your mention of pyramid schemes, which I had conclusively debunked. The pubs he maligned actively combat plagiarism every day. They are not to blame for the infections Perhaps it is you who has unresolved feelings on these matters

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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