I was reading a recent review of a local provider (let's call her Provider A) and gradually began to notice that it strangely resembled a review I had previously written about another provider (Provider B), in fact almost word for word in major parts of it. Oddly also, the sequence of events and the experiences that this reviewer went through as he described them, were exactly the same sequence and experiences (including certain nuances) I went through with Provider B. Some phrases and words were replaced with others as if a Thesaurus was used along with some other embellishments to deflect an outright identical review.

As they say, Imitation is the highest form of flattery... but I'm not sure I feel this way about the obvious plagiarism. I'm not sure if anything can be done or if it really matters but I am thinking of writing the reviewer and telling him to be a bit more creative at the least. Should I?

As I thought about this some more however, I began to think of the possibility that perhaps Provider A may have done this herself as I happened to also notice that parts of her website are copied from another provider's (Provider C) website. It wouldn't be the other way around as I've been following Provider C for a while now and noticed Provider A only entering the business within this year.

Again, all this isn't much of a big deal and I realize copy catting is a normal yet unfortunate fact of life. Just wish people could be more original