Very accurate post @patrice. I never upvote memes, YouTube videos or posts that are plagiarized unless proper credit has been given or it's a repost from the original content author. Supporting material for a post is one thing but to take someone else's work as if it were your own is another. This is a place for originality not copy & paste.
The two most vexing forms of plagiarism to find are video transcriptions and content copied from online material.
Supporting material for a post is one thing but to take someone else's work as if it were your own is another. This is a place for originality not copy & paste.
I agree 99.9%. I think sometimes "original content" is a problem for new users. They don't feel they can measure up to what is trending so instead of finding something to talk about and be social they resort to plagiarism.
I'm happy if they post a meme or video and then talk about it more than a sentence or two.
Another transcribed YT video. 95% of senteces are exact copy with slight spun in the rest.
Slightly changed some wording, and given 90% number instead of 88%, probably due to typo or intentional deceit.
Great investigation, I like your style! Pretty brazen to act like that. I think that is even worse than the guy with the 2700 upvote bots. Because he deliberately cheats all of us and is getting high payouts for that. Good that you found out. Following you.
You do it once, it's a mistake. You do it again and again, your intention is to deceive. I'm going to keep a close eye on this one.
It can be tracked way back to this article where even Cheetah made a comment, but I wonder why people chose to ignore it.
It's not even like he is putting effort to transcribe the video, there are services online where you put in the link and you get the text output. I wish his account and rep get nuked for shamelessly raping the reward pool, but we don't live in an ideal Steemit world. So for now, I hope he mends his ways.
I think users are getting too used to the @cheetah comments.
If @dommaraju was already added to someone's voting bot the post could have had a high payout before the first person commented or even looked at it. @cheetah quotes on enough posts that use quotes from a source that I can see users not even thinking twice about it and looking at the link. After all who would reward abuse so highly?
I really wish I had more time in the day. I some days I don't even get to look at @cheetah comments. When I do I might get to 50 or so.
Wow amazing job, I upvoted you with 100%. I hope we can find a way to stop these kind of people. I work very hard every day to even get one SP and those people just copy paste and get rich, that is not what should happen...
I was following him and wondering how on EARTH he was getting so much money for his blogs?! It baffled me. I mean clearly they were popular, but yes, they were copies. I hope his account gets shut down.
i think I've also unknowingly supported one relatively new account who were posting recipes. on closer look at the other posts, I'm suspecting the sole picture per post is from some book though i did some search and hadn't found the book.
How sad. That account does much better than mine, and I put hours of work into my posts. :(
I know how you feel, it definitely makes you more than a little upset when you try so hard on your own posts.
Keep it up, Patrice!
Very accurate post @patrice. I never upvote memes, YouTube videos or posts that are plagiarized unless proper credit has been given or it's a repost from the original content author. Supporting material for a post is one thing but to take someone else's work as if it were your own is another. This is a place for originality not copy & paste.
The two most vexing forms of plagiarism to find are video transcriptions and content copied from online material.
I agree 99.9%. I think sometimes "original content" is a problem for new users. They don't feel they can measure up to what is trending so instead of finding something to talk about and be social they resort to plagiarism.
I'm happy if they post a meme or video and then talk about it more than a sentence or two.
Hey, could you please provide those YT video links too so we can click and watch?
If you click on the post they are listed in the @steemcleaners comment. I put the links there. All but one, that one was from a website.
Another transcribed YT video. 95% of senteces are exact copy with slight spun in the rest.
Slightly changed some wording, and given 90% number instead of 88%, probably due to typo or intentional deceit.
https://steemit.com/language/@dommaraju/countries-with-the-most-languages-spoken
The copypasta transcription starts in 1:05
"What Country Has the Most Languages Spoken?"
Thanks for the help on finding 2 of those missing videos.
Thanks for doing that awesome job!!!
It is always pleasure to help steemcleaners!
Great investigation, I like your style! Pretty brazen to act like that. I think that is even worse than the guy with the 2700 upvote bots. Because he deliberately cheats all of us and is getting high payouts for that. Good that you found out. Following you.
@patrice excellent tip and investigation for finding this. I wouldn't have even thought to look at direct transcriptions from YouTube.
Video transcription and offline publications are the two hardest forms of plagiarism to find. Most of the time finding it is luck.
You do it once, it's a mistake. You do it again and again, your intention is to deceive. I'm going to keep a close eye on this one.
It can be tracked way back to this article where even Cheetah made a comment, but I wonder why people chose to ignore it.
It's not even like he is putting effort to transcribe the video, there are services online where you put in the link and you get the text output. I wish his account and rep get nuked for shamelessly raping the reward pool, but we don't live in an ideal Steemit world. So for now, I hope he mends his ways.
Keep the up the good work @patrice :)
I think users are getting too used to the @cheetah comments.
If @dommaraju was already added to someone's voting bot the post could have had a high payout before the first person commented or even looked at it. @cheetah quotes on enough posts that use quotes from a source that I can see users not even thinking twice about it and looking at the link. After all who would reward abuse so highly?
I really wish I had more time in the day. I some days I don't even get to look at @cheetah comments. When I do I might get to 50 or so.
Thanks for the support!
Wow amazing job, I upvoted you with 100%. I hope we can find a way to stop these kind of people. I work very hard every day to even get one SP and those people just copy paste and get rich, that is not what should happen...
I was following him and wondering how on EARTH he was getting so much money for his blogs?! It baffled me. I mean clearly they were popular, but yes, they were copies. I hope his account gets shut down.
i think I've also unknowingly supported one relatively new account who were posting recipes. on closer look at the other posts, I'm suspecting the sole picture per post is from some book though i did some search and hadn't found the book.
Those are very hard to catch and we want to welcome new comers. Until we find out otherwise all we can do is give them the benefit of the doubt.
Offline plagiarism accounts I'm more likely to blacklist if they are caught and less likely to remove it.
I like toast 🍞
Yes, CSI still at work. :-)
@coinbitgold You got tricked by this scammer too