We have a skilled plagiarist on steemit (Win SBD)
Dani Zaharie, is a recent user on steemit who has mastered the skill of Plagiarism. That is, profitting from other peoples work with sofisticated techniques. He recently wrote an article with 70$ payout. The problem is, it is mostly not his work. He copied content from a whitepaper and used his plagiarism skills to alter a few words. Here's what he wrote:
The Arcona Ecosystem goal is the creation of Digital Land which is a layer of “Augmented Reality” that unites the virtual and physical worlds into an information environment that is perfectly linked to our real world. It is created for everyday users to interact and have experiences with augmented, virtual and mixed multimedia reality content in locations in this Digital Land. You can make changes to the surrounding real space around you using the Smartphone, tablet, or by using headsets such as HoloLens or others that are similar.
Here's the original from which he stole the content:
The Arcona Ecosystem creates a Digital Land - a layer of Augmented Reality uniting the physical and virtual worlds into a single information environment perfectly linked to our real world. It is designed for everyday user interactive experience with augmented, virtual and mixed reality multimedia content in real world locations. You can change the surrounding real space around you on fly through the smartphone, tablet or with the use of headsets like HoloLens or similar.
Lets compare the two:
Lets see if it matches in other lines:
That's just rephrashing of the original. It doesn't come under fair use. I am not sure if he has been doing this in other posts as well. I will check them if I have some free time. If you are a user with a large SP, please consider downvoting his post. This type of abuse have a negative impact on the blockchain.
I will tip a few high quality comments to this post based on their quality. The top comment (decided based on quality) will get a 1 SBD tip. Upvote and resteem this post to be eligible. What to comment about? You may post a meme criticizing Zaharie's plagiarism skills, telling us about why this is bad, how it impacts the blockchain etc. Anything that is relevant to the posts main theme is ok.
@themarkymark ... Your prostitute of a bot is whoring out its up-votes to a plagiarist. Please remedy the situation.
Here's another one, and with reputation 70 - https://steemit.com/arcane-teaching/@juvyjabian/understanding-the-arcane-teaching ($17.63)
Source: https://volkischpaganism.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/william-walker-atkinson-the-arcane-teaching.pdf
Same "author" - https://steemit.com/history/@juvyjabian/europe-s-religion-warfare ($16.21)
Source: A Pocket Guide to European History:
I've been suspicious of his/her posts for some time, but your article prompted me to take a more careful look at a couple of their recent posts. He/She has apparently been doing well with this technique for a good bit of time.
Awosome. I know the person upvoting him. I will contact him to remove the upvotes and change them into downvotes.
I have decided to give you the top comment tip. 1 SBD on your way.
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It's nice to see that @cheetah was able to recognize the copy/pasted content, but you are correct that with enough rephrasing it is possible to escape a bot checking your content. No different than in school, it isn't okay to just copy something without citing your sources. It is not good for our community.
Wow, cheetah missed this one.
You are correct. I saw that it caught it for this post, but not the one that @littleboy is referencing. I wonder how many of these go unnoticed?
0.25 SBD tip on the way.
Wow, thank you!
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This is disgusting! Fuck Sakes
I literally see this type of shit on a daily basis. So many users need to get slapped in the throat.
I can not write like other writers, but for me the example of someone else's writing is something I hate, I will try to be a plagiarist that will make steemit worsen in the eyes of steemians, need extra supervision to avoid plagiarism in steemit, thanks for sharing and reminds us @littleboy
This is unbelievable! You are trying to stop plagiarism but @cheetah accused you for being a plagiator. Wew! We all must think hard to stop plagiarism and help @cheetah as well to see the context of every writing, not only its text.
I know cheetah very well. Cheetah is automated. It makes mistakes all the time. I regularly talk with those who are running cheetah. They are good guys.
Hellow @littleboy. You might be aware that others are also doing the same kind of tricks but they weren`t get noticed, downvoted or flagged. They laughed out loud when their post hit dollars and fooled whales to comment on their posts. Call them super genius, they deserve it. "Supergenius Plagiarists".
Often times, I stumbled on the same people who do the same but I didn`t have the courage to flag, downvote and report them. I was in fear that they might do the same on my posts. But upon reading your post, I see you as a straight-forward person with the great courage to expose the evil deeds of people who are in a higher position than you. I admire you and I want to be like you.
I am happy that you wrote this post for everyone to take cautions and be aware of this type of plagiarising.
Thanks. If you find any such big plagiarists but feel that they have way more SP then you, then you may report them to steemcleaners or contact me via memo. 0.5 SBD tip sent. ;)
Greed of money compel people to do horrible things
Sent you a 5 cent tip. Would have sent more if you upvoted and resteemed.
i will do that now.. sorry i was outside, walking and forgot about upvoting it. Upvoted and resteemed.. your post was good. And those 5 cents are enough for me ☺️. I will just take those as a compliment from you..
best regards
100% upvote - my grandma used to say"lies have short legs" and to my experience this is true-as much as I feel at times beyond frustrated to live in a world where quick cash seems to be more on peoples mind than acquiring true skills and as much as one feels at times hopelessly lost in how to fend off cheats and spams and plagiarism I truly believe these things are short lived-meaning you might even achieve brief success as a thief and liar but it is short lived-authentic material hard to come by and hard to work for is always prevailing and in mysterious ways even years later liars are come to justice or as my grandma said"lies have short legs"...
Nice comment! 10 cents tip and 50% upvote for you.
Wow that is awesome, I really appreciate it, thank you so much
@bellyrub's vote has been unvoted. I will add him/her to blacklist for belly rub. @littleboy please contact me about any others that you have to add them to belly's blacklist, I will be in contact with @themarkymark to produce a list as well.