RSA

Randomly Screwing Around, commonly referred to as RSA, is one of the most active groups on the music-sharing site Musescore. Popular Musescore user Rebecca Y created the group on September 4, 2017 because she was disallowed from using her previous Musescore-based server on Discord by her parents. Since then, the group has seen waves of new members join and leave, as well as many instances of drama. RSA is the most active group on Musescore.

RSA was temporarily deleted in March 2018 as a result of Musescore's faulty spam detection filter during the Revolution. To get around this, Randomly Screwing Around 2 was created. The site developers quickly restored the original RSA, making the second a historical vestige only occasionally seeing activity when someone necroposts an old discussion. Other spinoff groups have also been created over the years, such as the RSA Meme Team, and RSA Cuisine Club, which see no activity.

The community's user base is on average fairly young, even compared to the rest of the site. Many RSA members are older, however.

## History

The following comes from a post by Rebecca Y. outlining several key events during the history of RSA. The post is written in the first-person POV of Rebecca.

### Beginnings of RSA, initial growth, and temporary deletion: August 2017-May 2018

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> So...in August of 2017, I joined discord...woohoo, exciting. But it was pretty awesome talking to so many people I knew on musescore. Sadly, a week later, I got kicked off by my parents for privately messaging people I didn't know in person. Well...I'd enjoyed those conversations a lot, and was pretty salty. So I looked for alternate places to have random conversations. That's when I made this group. I invited those I'd been chatting with on discord, as well as some other good friends I had on musescore at the time (see first 10 or so members of group). Well, obviously, discord is much faster for chatting than musescore, so this group soon went inactive.
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> A few weeks later, the group got a few more members (we now had 13 members in total) and we were able to get some short conversations going. In an attempt to get more people to talk, I made an "admin contest", where you had to share the most embarrassing moment of your life (and the funniest story won). So that's how Ruby Liz was made an admin.
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> One day in October, Ruby Liz decided to do a contest. So...the point was to see who could make the best score with a time limit of 30 mins (Congrats Skylighter for winning that one). I made an entry too, and added it to the groups I was in. So because of that, this group got its first surge of members; I think it went up to around 30 something.
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> At around the end of October, there a massive argument with 100+ comments because someone swore in confusion but was misinterpreted as trying to attack someone. Unfortunately, I was at school at the time this happened. Luckily, it settled down pretty quickly and in the end everyone was fine. To help settle the atmosphere in here, I posted some friendly discussions so everyone could chat. That kinda helped the group grow a little. I put the details here: [1]
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> Well, by then I started posting more discussions in here because it was actually showing potential of being successful (unlike my other groups, both of which are pretty much inactive). Other people started making discussions too, and RSA was no longer dependent on me to stay active. The member count slowly went up to 60. It hit 60 members around March 15.
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> AND THEN.... Arial the Font decided to do a magic trick involving numbers.
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> Mnmwert and Kenobiingondolin2019 began spamming math jokes, which turned into spamming millions (literally) of digits of pi, e, phi, etc. The spam spread to other discussions as well.
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> It was around this time Musescore got that Community feature.
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> The spammers were spamming so often that at any given time, half the discussions in the community section were from this group. They even pulled in MORE spammers (Big Pig and SSS5) to spam with them. Unsurprisingly, that caused this group to gain 90 members in a week.
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> By then, the spam was getting out of hand, as they would make computers lag for at least 5 mins. So I started deleting the comments, but the spammers were spamming so much I couldn't delete fast enough (I had to wait until all the spam LOADED before I could delete the comments). So I kicked the four main spammers out of the group as a prank (I sent them new invites), then deleted a whole bunch of spam in peace.
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> When the spammers got back, they decided to start a "rebellion" against me (this was just some role play). I was the "evil dictator" while Lizzapie, mnmwert, Kenobiingondolin2019, and several others were the rebels fighting for "democracy." Now, this rebellion thing was a HUGE hit. It made the group active to the point where you could literally post a comment, refresh the page after 5 seconds, and have a reply. Other than the rebellion, other people were also making discussions, which made this group even MORE active (and we still had people spamming, though not as much as before).
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> This group was so active that musescore's crappy spam-detection thing deleted it.
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> Everyone thought this group was completely gone, so I made a second RSA (this was yesterday) with a no spam rule. But then VGA noticed that Musescore Composers, the most popular group on the site, was also deleted, so we figured it could be some sort of bug deleting our group. So Kenobiingondolin2019 posted a discussion in Improving Musescore.com about the missing groups and they were restored.
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> So that's why there are two RSA's.
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> **Update: sometime in May...idk**
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> **Member count: approx. 220**
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> The second RSA, as of now, is pretty much inactive. As for this group, it's growing quickly, with 220+ members now and new discussions posted daily.
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> ### The Dookis Era: June 2018-July 2018
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> **Update: June 27, 2018**
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> **Member count: 291**
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> So this group was going pretty smoothly, being its insanely active (but not as active as March) self. But then one day, a user called "The Dookis Supreme" showed up and plagiarized a piece by Kempsey365. Unsurprisingly, the musescore community banded together and attacked the plagiariser. What happened afterwards was shocking. Dookis started trolling, spamming, and even impersonating people like Fia Goudes (aka lareinedeslapins) and mnmwert in large groups like Musescore Composers. He was even making new accounts to troll (I still can't be sure if Dookis was the same person as another spam account, "The Koodis Supreme", but both were spamming and getting on everyone's nerves). He kept posting stuff about "cake" and "pie", which can be slang for something highly inappropriate. I was disgusted, but decided to stop feeding this troll. I wasn't too concerned for RSA because compared to a group like Musescore Composers, RSA was (and still is) TINY. But by the time I got home from school, both Dookis AND Koodis had found RSA and were starting to post spam discussions in here as well. I promptly kicked both of the accounts and blocked them.
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> Less than a day later, two NEW spam accounts appeared, with usernames King Cake and KingPie. Both joined RSA (for some reason they were more intent on getting into this group...I don't know why). King Cake (who claimed that he was the same person as Dookis, but not the same person as Koodis and KingPie) started an argument in one of the discussions about him before cracking and explaining that the reason he trolled was to get attention, and that being nice didn't generate as much attention. I told him I wasn't going to stop repeatedly kicking him from RSA (which was what I was doing at the time) until he made a public apology to all the people he affected. He did just that, and I let him into RSA. However, I later read a discussion from Kempsey365 begging for Dookis to be banned, as he was threatening him on another site. Just keep this in mind for now.
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> Meanwhile, on Monday (June 25), Kenobiingondolin2019 posted a discussion asking why she got 8 followers, all with empty profile pages, in 3 hrs. At first I thought it was just a coincidence that 8 people decided to follow her in 3 hours, but I turned out to be dead wrong. Keno, who had 46 followers prior to Monday, went on to gain 110+ followers over the last few days. And she wasn't the only one affected. It was even more severe with mnmwert, who had 365 before Monday and currently has 664 followers as I'm writing this. It was confirmed by the devs that these "followers" were spam accounts. Their targets were (and are) mainly people in the "Piano" group and people who were ranked high up in the "Top Users" section. No one knows the reason to why they exist and why they're following certain people.
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> Some of them had long usernames written in base64. When Keno decoded them, they said something along the lines of "I am you, trapped in the abyss of darkness". I don't remember the exact wording. That alone was creepy enough. Then one of these users posted a comment on the discussion about the spam followers in base64. Keno decoded them, and they all led to websites about death. I kicked the user immediately and blocked them. I also kicked the other spam accounts that had joined.
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> Well, for SOME REASON, RSA just happens to be a TARGET for these spammers. So I made a discussion about voting to make this group moderated. With all the spammers on the site, I was seriously considering it. But then, like with King Cake/Dookis, the spammer that posted about death kept joining no matter how many times I kicked him (there's something wrong with musescore's blocking function, so as of now, that can't keep someone from joining a group). So I figured: there was no way that all these spammers just COINCIDENTALLY decided to all join at the same time, join the same groups, and follow the same people. This had to be organized. And it was pretty obvious the spammers had already FOUND RSA and were pretty intent on getting past me. Well, if all 500+ spam accounts (estimated number) decided to attack RSA, that would completely destroy the group. Now, remember Dookis/King Cake? He wanted another chance. However, I wasn't that keen on forgiving him right away, and told him that he had to prove himself trustworthy before I let him in here. So that's our current situation with him. But I knew I couldn't stop him from repeatedly joining RSA because of the broken "block" function.
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> Pair that with all the spammer followers......I decided I wasn't going to wait any longer to moderate the group.
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> So I kicked the creepy death-posting user one last time, and changed the group's settings to "moderated". We now don't have to worry about spammers/trolls in RSA.
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> **Update: July 5, 2018**
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> **Member count: 306**
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> Three days after these "spammer followers" started coming in, Dimitriy Popov revealed that they weren't really spammers...they were just a bunch of new users. A new function had been added that allowed new members to easily access groups, which explained the surge of members in groups, as well as the huge influx of followers for some of the really active users.
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> So logged into my second account, and unfollowed everyone and left all groups so my dashboard would be empty. I found that when a new user joins, groups and users are recommended to them - the groups being the top groups, and the users being the ones on the "top users" list. The higher up on the lists a group or user was, the more likely they were to get recommended, and the more followers they got. I took a series of screenshots and shared them with the group.
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> So we could all relax, and upload scores/add them to groups without fearing that we're gonna get bombarded by spammers.
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> Unfortunately, these new followers were following without looking at people's music, making the follower count completely meaningless and empty. However, on July 2, the devs were able to change that by taking out the user recommendations. So now, we have a lot more new members who can easily access the community, and everyone gets followed fairly :D
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> **Update July 19, 2018**
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> **Member count: 320**
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> Remember the deal I made with Dookis? That he had to prove himself trustworthy before I let him in? Well well well......
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> About 2 days ago, I received a join request for this group from a user called Snotosaurus Rex. I let him in, as I would a normal member wanting to join RSA. But Snotosaurus acted *weird.* He kept posting comments like "I'm new here; I don't know where I am; am I in the right place" over and over. When SoysauceK pointed this out, Snotosaurus claimed he was the king of trolls and would "only behave if respected". Additionally, lareinedeslapins, who was also concerned about Snotosaurus's behaviour, shot me a private message. I replied to one of Snotosaurus's comments, warning him that his behaviour could potentially result in a ban. I never got a reply.
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> The next day, I woke up and lazily grabbed my phone to check musescore, quora, facebook, etc. I clicked into RSA, and immediately stopped short. Snotosaurus's username was now "The indomitable Dookis Supreme". In other words, Dookis had snuck into RSA under a different username. I quickly kicked him, and wrote a comment explaining why. Again, I said if he could prove himself, he could still be welcome here.
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> *" So, let us continue. You have decided to ban me from RSA. That is fine. But I recommend you let me back in. I have 200+ emails that I can use to open an account and get in. Anyhow, I am already in RSA under a different username. HAHAHA!! You think you are Queen of Troll-Patrol or something. You are poor at it. Or, rather, I am just much slyer than you think. So, let me in using this account, or I will blow up RSA with my shadow account. Also, I have another advantage over you, thanks to the Musescore team, that I plan to use if you give me any more trouble."*
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> *" You can try to ignore me. Let's settle this and quit being immature about it, before I slam you with the help of MUSEScORE TEAM."*
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> Kempsey. Was. Dookis.
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> Immediately, I kicked him. He deleted his account less than 5 minutes later.
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> It was almost laughable at the moment - this was the most legendary troll I'd ever seen. It seemed straight out of a scooby doo episode.
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> And eventually it started settling down. Right now, it seems RSA is nearly completely normal again. The devs haven't responded to my email, but Dookis hasn't shown up to spam me, hack me (or anyone else), or try to blow up the group again since I kicked Kempsey.
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> And I guess the first threat was actually carried out, because Kempsey was Dookis's shadow account. I didn't let him into this group, so he blew it up xD. Oh well.
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> ### Peace period, more growth, and record breaking: July 2018-March 2019
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> **Member count: 325**
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> Soooo.........we filled up the ENTIRE first page of the community section with discussions from this group. Like, all 20 slots. No comment.
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> We've got about 5 people active right now.........and these days this group just has been INSANELY active........enough that I felt the need to update the history. Right now the group's having a full-on blowup with random discussions...
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> **Update September 4, 2018**
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> **Member count: 363**
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> Happy birthday, RSA!!! Whoooooooo....it's been quite a year :P
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> Discussion count: 1253
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> Score count: 951
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> **Update October 8, 2018**
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> **Member count: 402**
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> And two days ago, we had another laugh over this when I made a "debriefing" discussion explaining the prank in Musescore Composers.
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> **Update January 26, 2019**
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> RSA now holds the world record for most discussions in a public group on all of musescore.com (idk about private groups...those are only visible to their members...though I doubt any of them have this many discussions xD). Jaybird1 noticed this morning that we were at 2110 discussions, while Improving Musescore.com was at 2091. Congrats, guys!! :D
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> **Update March 21, 2019**
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> **Member Count: 631**
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> ### Second Spammer War, May 2019
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> Buuuuuuuuut Musix was PERSISTENT. Believe it or not, he was even more persistent than Dookis. He kept making new accounts and making membership requests into RSA, despite having them get denied, and then having his account deleted over and over and OVER. And he was definitely not the smartest person, either. Every time he made a new account, the first people he approached were Jay and me via private messages. I never said much, and focused on blocking him and denying all his join requests instead. He finally stopped trying to contact me after I decided to respond to him for once by baiting him by pretending to not know who he was and then rickrolling him.
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> ### RSA's 2nd birthday, moderators take over RSA: September 2019-January 2020
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> **Member Count: 781**
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> Happy 2nd birthday, RSA!
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> Discussion count: 4006
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> Score count: 2802
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> Either yesterday or early this morning, RSA crossed 4000 discussions, and became the first group on musescore to ever do so (same thing with 3k). Yay! :D
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> So last week, I made a discussion asking for mods, and a total of 15 people applied. I picked two people out of the 15...and now we have new mods :D So I hope everything goes fine.
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> **Update January 25, 2020**
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> **Member Count: 929**
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> RSA's discussion count hit 5k two days ago :D
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> ### Year of the Pandemic, plagiarism issues: April 2020-Present
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> **Member Count: 1000**
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> RSA crossed 1k members today! Yayyy :D
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> We have officially become one of musescore's "large groups" :P
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> I made a discussion telling everyone to be active on this group today at 2pm PST sharp, but didn't tell them why. Basically it was supposed to be "surprise party" where we could welcome the 1000th member and play some celebratory games (ex. skribbl.io and typeracer) together. It was pretty wild. :D
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> **Update July 18, 2020**
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> Just noticed it's been exactly two years since Dookis trolled us all, lmao.
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> Anywho, just wanted to summarize a bit of the stuff that went on.
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> Plagiarism - not really specific to this group, but there was quite a bit of plagiarism going on around May-ish that was pretty much stirring up the musescore (and RSA) community. Imma just describe each incident separately.
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> Maxxling.drums - stole the piece "Discord" from mcaeln. Insisted that he wrote the piece no matter how many people confronted him. Briefly changed his username to "Maxx the Plagiarist," uploaded stolen pieces from myself and Queenqueef, and changed his profile banner to "I plagiarized Rebecca Y, mcaeln, and queenqueef, ban me now", but, after about an hour, changed everything back to normal and deleted everything he stole except mcaeln's score. Mcaeln's stolen score blew up with angry comments from enraged musescorers, and Maxx continued to troll. He was later banned, but then showed up recently on an alt account and made a racist "apology" that admitted he'd plagiarized, but accused mcaeln of also plagiarizing by saying that "statistically", black people like mcaeln shouldn't be able to write music as good as he did. Cue another wave of angry comments.
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> igetdownloadl - Is the second alt of someone who I used to think was just one of my normal followers. His main is called th3vanish3don.
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> Basically I uploaded a piece to fundraise for COVID-19, and, in order to get the sheet music, you had to purchase it through my Patreon page. I made a chunk of the score I uploaded on musescore invisible so people would have to buy the music in order to get it, and disabled downloads. However, musescore glitched (surprise, again), which allowed him to download a pdf file of the score as well as a MIDI file of the piano part. He decided to advertise this using his first alt to advertise what he had, and commented on my score telling people to message him if they wanted to bypass my paywall.
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> I deleted the comment, blocked the account, and responded, telling him what he was doing was both illegal and immoral. When I came back, he (using his igetdownloadl account) had spammed the download link the the MIDI file under EVERY. SINGLE. COMMENT. on my score, every single comment on my youtube video of the piece, AS WELL AS every single one of my youtube videos I had on my channel (I didn't find the yt comments until yesterday when I decided to look at my channel analytics/comments and found 30 spam comments yt had flagged). He also spammed the link all over musescore, including on other people's scores.
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> idk how many other people he stole from, but ik he also illegally distributed EllingtonReborn's scores.
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> I later found out it was him after he made a join request into RSA saying "I'm the plagiarizer, I just wanted to apologize to everyone." I denied his request and blocked him - I wasn't about to make the same mistake I did with Dookis and forgive someone who'd literally spammed my entire comment section, as well as other people's scores, literally days prior. Never saw him again.
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> fartcart69 - stole from Mr. Peabody and lareinedeslapins (ultimately causing her to leave musescore). Received angry comments, but responded to them with incoherent, immature, and illogical arguments. One of his comments "it's not false because it's true," is now a running joke among some musescorers. He also sent various people rude private messages that, unsurprisingly, contained horrible grammar and were nearly incoherent. Got banned eventually.
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> Ironically, both maxxling and fartcart also tried to advertise their (plagiarized) scores on my fundraiser piece.
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> Anyway, both the general musescore community and the RSA community had a huge reaction to the wave of plagiarism. In the span of less than a week, there were multiple reports posted in musescore news groups, two diss tracks posted by myself and Timothy Cho, and a wave of discussions in Improving Musescore.com pushing for the devs to pay attention to abuse reports of plagiarism.
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> The other thing I wanted to cover was the alplexle (later changed username to aokaze) was finally banned, thanks to a discussion made by Bentheduelist in RSA.
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> Basically, three years ago, alplexle was a pedophile who pressed minors to reveal personal information and show their faces on musescore slack/discord servers, even after they'd expressed they were clearly uncomfortable. He openly admitted to being in a child porn discord server, and bragged that his "latest accomplishment to date" was making someone commit suicide. Despite multiple reports in the past, the devs did nothing about it. This time, however, especially with all the outcries from the plagiarism (and even more from RSA members reporting alplexle), Mr\_MusicGuy, after seeing Ben's discussion and all the evidence of alplexle's actions, was finally able to have a conversation with the devs get them to ban him. And now everyone's happier, and musescore is a better place.
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> **Update: September 4, 2020**
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> **Member Count: 1175**
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> RSA is 3 now...dayum xD
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> Discussion count: 6.7k
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> Score count: 6.5k
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> [unfortunately we can no longer see the exact values for these :(( ]
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