Fresh update on Spam/Plagiarism-- Date- 02/06/2021
Here is a fresh update on spam/plagiarism.
We have detected a few accounts & their act of plagiarism during our investigation this week.
The window to spam/plagiarize is very narrow with the introduction of new thresholds(min rep 50 & min SP 150) in Crypto Academy, therefore the number of spam cases has significantly dropped in Crypto Academy.
However, we found that few users are posting non-relevant content(other than Homework Tasks) in Crypto Academy. Upon further investigation, we found that such users are also publishing plagiarized content.
Spam/Plagiarism | #cryptoacademy | #betterlife
Plagiarist | Post Link | Original Source | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|
@alejandroo | Link | Source | Plagiarism |
Link | Source | Plagiarism/Download PDF & See page no. 8 "Sharding" | |
Link | Source | Plagiarism/Interestingly, @jerry0(the source) is also a repeat plagiarist | |
@nikhilpandey | Link | Source | Plagiarism/Translated the original content(in Spanish) into English to portray t as original content |
@scruffyy22 | Link | Source | Plagiarism |
@dingdong21 | Link | Source | Plagiarism |
Link | Source | Plagiarism | |
Link | Source | Plagiarism | |
@arpitgupta08 | Link | This user is repeatedly publishing old diary posts and after a few days deleting the old diary posts to escape detection. | |
Link | -do- | ||
Link | -do- |
What is Plagiarism?
- Plagiarism is an act of stealing the content of others and representing it as their own content and/or passing off content without acknowledgment of the real authorship.
- Close paraphrase, word-to-word transcription, etc.
We do cast our doubt on a few other accounts and the investigation is still on. We will report it here once the investigation is completed.
We believe that we have to be more careful when we curate the new accounts, we should diligently check whether the user has completed the Achievement-1 Task or not.
We will keep fighting this good fight. The coordinated community effort will defeat such insidious acts & weed out the plagiarized articles, in a timely manner, in a way to make sure that they don't leech reward pool.
Thank you.
Cc:-
@steemcurator01
@steemcurator02
Cc:- @endingplagiarism, @kiwi-crypto, @starlord28, @endplagiarism02, @endplagiarism04
Mostly Visited - Sent the warnings but maybe @endingplagiarism should need to double-check them all.
Something Interested - You & @starlord28 might love to know:
https://steemitwallet.com/@alejandroo/transfers
https://steemitwallet.com/@hyeoon/transfers
https://steemitwallet.com/@agarwalalisha/transfers
Have a Look on Memo: 103301115
Please Visit all the related accounts.
Thanks as Always
Thanks @sapwood and @endplagiarism04. Consolidated list updated.
Thank you so much.
Apparently, they are all alternate accounts, and they all have a long history of spam/plagiarism.
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