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<blockquote data-quote="Loren the GM" data-source="post: 7779756" data-attributes="member: 6882721"><p>A keyword search isn't going to get you a lot (I mean, it will now because of all the news articles, but prior?) - all of the proper names were changed to reference Bethesda properties, and there are a ton of adventures with similar themes - deserts, caravans, statues. And there aren't any legal archives of published PDF's to do text comparisons with. So maybe you get lucky and spot the similar adventure, or maybe you don't. That assumes that the person searching is competent or happens to just miss catching it through error, that they believe there is malice to find so they are looking intently, and that there is actually enough key words that match between the adventures to find a link in a system that doesn't easily allow for A B comparison. </p><p></p><p>But I don't think "stop all 'f' ups before they happen" is a truly viable concept in a world with humans, especially when the person you contracted to do a job has purposefully obfuscated their work in an attempt to do a shady thing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As I mentioned, investigating as they say they are doing is the right thing to do. If it was internal gross incompetence, I'd hope an investigation would find that and they'd deal with it (and any other issues that might come to light if this is the case). And if it is a contractor who did this, then that is what they should deal with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Loren the GM, post: 7779756, member: 6882721"] A keyword search isn't going to get you a lot (I mean, it will now because of all the news articles, but prior?) - all of the proper names were changed to reference Bethesda properties, and there are a ton of adventures with similar themes - deserts, caravans, statues. And there aren't any legal archives of published PDF's to do text comparisons with. So maybe you get lucky and spot the similar adventure, or maybe you don't. That assumes that the person searching is competent or happens to just miss catching it through error, that they believe there is malice to find so they are looking intently, and that there is actually enough key words that match between the adventures to find a link in a system that doesn't easily allow for A B comparison. But I don't think "stop all 'f' ups before they happen" is a truly viable concept in a world with humans, especially when the person you contracted to do a job has purposefully obfuscated their work in an attempt to do a shady thing. As I mentioned, investigating as they say they are doing is the right thing to do. If it was internal gross incompetence, I'd hope an investigation would find that and they'd deal with it (and any other issues that might come to light if this is the case). And if it is a contractor who did this, then that is what they should deal with. [/QUOTE]
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