Is it possible on Congovibes to delete your account, have your reactions and threads erased and then start a new one? I'm seriously fed up seeing every day articles on instagram being written based on my replies and the threads I've created over the past 10 years on this forum. I don't mind people writing articles based on my words, but it's not acceptable to copy posts without properly citing the original source. I had the desire to post articles about albums and events that are hitting 20 and 25 years, but I lost the joy and passion to do it.


You would expect someone who copies other people's posts to at least read and understand what they're copying. Instead, he makes silly mistakes.
Often I forget to add a word or a name when I am writting, which makes a sentence incomplete or unclear, but he copies it exactly as it is without understanding the context. For example, he recently made a post about the song Elongi ya Jesus, claiming that Papa Wemba was nicknamed "L'Évangéliste." While in reality, that nickname belonged to Bogus Bompema. This mistake came from one of my comments, in which I wanted to say that Bogus Bompema apparently wrote the song. (I'm not completely sure about that  because I heard it from someone else, and it's possible that it was actually written by another songwriter). I also explained that, at the time, Bogus Bompema was called "L'Évangéliste" by his fellow collegues because of the way he prayed and preached during rehearsals. Bogus Bompema himself has mentioned this several times in interviews. He said that Papa Wemba once told him that the music scene was full of crazy people and that, sooner or later, he would have to make a choice.

Today, I  saw a post about Jeannette and the person that JB Mpiana was voted as "Meilleur Etoile" translating it directly from "Best Star of the year"while that doesn't exist in Congo. It had to be "Meilleur Vedette de l'Année".

Is it possible on Congovibes to delete your account, have your reactions and threads erased and then start a new one? I'm seriously fed up seeing every day articles on instagram being written based on my replies and the threads I've created over the past 10 years on this forum. I don't mind people writing articles based on my words, but it's not acceptable to copy posts without properly citing the original source. I had the desire to post articles about albums and events that are hitting 20 and 25 years, but I lost the joy and passion to do it.


You would expect someone who copies other people's posts to at least read and understand what they're copying. Instead, he makes silly mistakes.
Often I forget to add a word or a name when I am writting, which makes a sentence incomplete or unclear, but he copies it exactly as it is without understanding the context. For example, he recently made a post about the song Elongi ya Jesus, claiming that Papa Wemba was nicknamed "L'Évangéliste." While in reality, that nickname belonged to Bogus Bompema. This mistake came from one of my comments, in which I wanted to say that Bogus Bompema apparently wrote the song. (I'm not completely sure about that  because I heard it from someone else, and it's possible that it was actually written by another songwriter). I also explained that, at the time, Bogus Bompema was called "L'Évangéliste" by his fellow collegues because of the way he prayed and preached during rehearsals. Bogus Bompema himself has mentioned this several times in interviews. He said that Papa Wemba once told him that the music scene was full of crazy people and that, sooner or later, he would have to make a choice.

Today, I  saw a post about Jeannette and the person that JB Mpiana was voted as "Meilleur Etoile" translating it directly from "Best Star of the year"while that doesn't exist in Congo. It had to be "Meilleur Vedette de l'Année".

Who and what are the name of the pages that keep copying your comments? Name and shame them because they can get reported for plagiarism.

Who ever is doing it and is reading this now I’ve got a message for you get a grip and come up with your own material or just say nothing at all clowns.

I literally had the same thing happen to me.  One day I started reading a Facebook post that came on my feed and started thinking to myself hmm this sounds familiar. Then it dawned on me that it was literally my post from COVID era. Zero edits, straight plagiarism bar for bar.

There have been a few other instances of my little historical posts (not as profound as maitre @Mfumu & @Archos) from back in the 2010’s also that took me time to put together that I randomly I found on social media years after

Maybe its done by forum lurkers, but I think there are some ways to prevent thread data from appearing on google search, maybe even AI. @Bencuri what are your thoughts?

Is it possible on Congovibes to delete your account, have your reactions and threads erased and then start a new one? I'm seriously fed up seeing every day articles on instagram being written based on my replies and the threads I've created over the past 10 years on this forum. I don't mind people writing articles based on my words, but it's not acceptable to copy posts without properly citing the original source. I had the desire to post articles about albums and events that are hitting 20 and 25 years, but I lost the joy and passion to do it.


You would expect someone who copies other people's posts to at least read and understand what they're copying. Instead, he makes silly mistakes.
Often I forget to add a word or a name when I am writting, which makes a sentence incomplete or unclear, but he copies it exactly as it is without understanding the context. For example, he recently made a post about the song Elongi ya Jesus, claiming that Papa Wemba was nicknamed "L'Évangéliste." While in reality, that nickname belonged to Bogus Bompema. This mistake came from one of my comments, in which I wanted to say that Bogus Bompema apparently wrote the song. (I'm not completely sure about that  because I heard it from someone else, and it's possible that it was actually written by another songwriter). I also explained that, at the time, Bogus Bompema was called "L'Évangéliste" by his fellow collegues because of the way he prayed and preached during rehearsals. Bogus Bompema himself has mentioned this several times in interviews. He said that Papa Wemba once told him that the music scene was full of crazy people and that, sooner or later, he would have to make a choice.

Today, I  saw a post about Jeannette and the person that JB Mpiana was voted as "Meilleur Etoile" translating it directly from "Best Star of the year"while that doesn't exist in Congo. It had to be "Meilleur Vedette de l'Année".

I saw yesterday another post, it was a video about „bla bla bla
„ from Koffi. So i checked here in the Group, if there is a post about that generique and i found that the text was copied from this group..

I will check wither it is possible to delete your things. So you want your account also deleted, or only the posts you made?

However, I regret you want to delete your stuff. It can be a valuable reference for the people in the future, maybe they won't be able to geather information from anywhere else than your posts. I would think it twice whether to have the posts deleted or not. But if you want that I can definately look into how it could be done.

Is it possible on Congovibes to delete your account, have your reactions and threads erased and then start a new one? I'm seriously fed up seeing every day articles on instagram being written based on my replies and the threads I've created over the past 10 years on this forum. I don't mind people writing articles based on my words, but it's not acceptable to copy posts without properly citing the original source. I had the desire to post articles about albums and events that are hitting 20 and 25 years, but I lost the joy and passion to do it.


You would expect someone who copies other people's posts to at least read and understand what they're copying. Instead, he makes silly mistakes.
Often I forget to add a word or a name when I am writting, which makes a sentence incomplete or unclear, but he copies it exactly as it is without understanding the context. For example, he recently made a post about the song Elongi ya Jesus, claiming that Papa Wemba was nicknamed "L'Évangéliste." While in reality, that nickname belonged to Bogus Bompema. This mistake came from one of my comments, in which I wanted to say that Bogus Bompema apparently wrote the song. (I'm not completely sure about that  because I heard it from someone else, and it's possible that it was actually written by another songwriter). I also explained that, at the time, Bogus Bompema was called "L'Évangéliste" by his fellow collegues because of the way he prayed and preached during rehearsals. Bogus Bompema himself has mentioned this several times in interviews. He said that Papa Wemba once told him that the music scene was full of crazy people and that, sooner or later, he would have to make a choice.

Today, I  saw a post about Jeannette and the person that JB Mpiana was voted as "Meilleur Etoile" translating it directly from "Best Star of the year"while that doesn't exist in Congo. It had to be "Meilleur Vedette de l'Année".

Who and what are the name of the pages that keep copying your comments? Name and shame them because they can get reported for plagiarism.

Who ever is doing it and is reading this now I’ve got a message for you get a grip and come up with your own material or just say nothing at all clowns.

I often see the Insta-page World Music 243 doing such things.
A few months ago I saw an Instagram-post about JB’s song Hi-Ho-Ha, and I looked in the description and directly recognised @Mfumu Vata clarification about the album “Les Anges Adorables” without crediting @Mfumu Vata or even Congovibes sadly.

mfumu maybe what you can do is to contact those pages and if they do not respond you just go in the comments and expose them until they'll credit you like sometimes in the wikipedia's of some artists there is one or two credit for you or me for example in the references
i dont think they are doing it out of pure evil,but more like " ahh its not a big deal" you know how far behind a lot of africans are still in terms of people's rights,i saw a similar situation with a black british streamer rants n bants who had a guy doing a whole page of tiktok of his stuff even while he still on stream and he wanted to take the page down and then he just said whoever is the guy behind it reach out to me in DM and i'll give you official permission and this is how they sorted it out

stealing text from a forum is just nasty work hope non of mine has been stolen cuz idk what im talking about 60% of the time lol

stealing text from a forum is just nasty work hope non of mine has been stolen cuz idk what im talking about 60% of the time lol

Haha same here but I’m more like 95%.

Adding my 2 cents, I agree with Bencuri. It’s unfortunately that people are stealing your posts but I do think it’s very valuable and informal to many of us that have no idea about the history of our favorite genre. In a way this is like Wikipedia for many of us. Deleting your posts would also become like lost history for many of us in the future.