I understand completely. I've seen it happen frequently on Medium, but I never expected it to happen to me.

I thought my sometimes odd writing, with its unconventional grammar and structure, to retain my raw thoughts—wouldn't be attractive to thieves; I assumed they'd only target the "really well-written" pieces.

Content theft is unavoidable, but the frustrating part is the burden of having to prove our work is original before we're mistakenly accused of being the plagiarizer.

As I mentioned, I'd already published this post on PeakD before bringing it here, to warn others to check if this happens to them too. The moderator has since muted that post, and a warning has been placed on the plagiarizer's other content.

While I have drafts saved on both my phone and email, I definitely need another platform that has detailed timestamping for my drafts. I'm looking at GitHub and Google Docs.