@luckforsale's Unlucky Day: Exposé on a Chinese Plagiarist Network

in #abuse7 years ago



Their luck making profit from abuse is about to run out. 🚩


Usually the case when the community is made aware of plagiarist networks (not to mention revenge flags in defense of said networks).

Abuse fighters are sustaining slight casualties with @luckforsale's revenge downvotes but we aren't backing down. This plagiarist sympathizer, ringleader, sock puppeteer or whatever the hell they would like to be called is going to have to learn the hard way. We are requesting reinforcements to this fight. More technological countermeasures will be developed. Because the plagiarism is in Chinese, it is helpful to use www.baidu.com to identify the source. Thanks @talesfrmthecrypt for the tip!

Example of just one instance of abuse found using baidu. There are a hell of a lot more. Have at it, friends!

@luckforsale. You're going to need more than luck with the Steem anti-abuse community

Accounts involved in the plagiarism ring:

@zhuw08110, @cczhou, @michaelfries, @retiresoon (hope they do retire soon, from plagiarism that is), @cindyzhou

I've compiled a list of the accounts upvotes and here is the OneDrive link

Counterflag #1 (Image contains link to comment)

Counterflag #2 (Image contains link to comment)

Counterflag #3 (Image contains link to comment)

More counterflagged comments: 4, 5, and 6


I ran a quick script to pull all @luckforsale downvotes so far and here is the markdown table for information. Note, that some of these comments are past payout but may help people understand the risk of going after abuse. If you agree that plagiarism is bad for Steem, please take a moment to support any abuse fighter below.

authorpermweightrsharespercenttime
@transparencybot/re-eth-usd800-hash-6-1080ti-antminer-e3--bidbot0-44021253738-100002018-04-09T17:21:36
@sherlockholmes/re-daili-steem-power-sp-28-20180502t225145026z0-45630839611-100002018-05-02T23:56:48
@anthonyadavisii/re-zhuw08110-20180505t211428338z-20180506t000349558z0-23862384539-52002018-05-10T04:28:06
@yekrats/re-zhuw08110-20180503t032833153z-20180509t131340571z0-11931192269-26002018-05-10T02:38:12
@yekrats/re-cindyzhou-20180503t065733156z-20180509t135231042z0-11931192269-26002018-05-10T02:38:06
@yekrats/re-cindyzhou-20180503t091732435z-20180509t140016086z0-11931192269-26002018-05-10T02:37:42
@yekrats/re-cindyzhou-20180503t120532911z-20180510t004448154z0-11931192269-26002018-05-10T02:36:51
@yekrats/re-cindyzhou-20180503t134834158z-20180510t005618390z0-12169816115-26002018-05-10T02:36:03
@anthonyadavisii/re-zhuw08110-20180509t221456177z-20180510t035129541z0-23146513003-51002018-05-10T04:28:24
@anthonyadavisii/re-zhuw08110-20180510t120656508z-20180510t161726405z0-23624748128-51002018-05-10T19:43:03
@anthonyadavisii/re-zhuw08110-20180511t142547057z-20180511t201318655z0-54162947276-50002018-05-13T15:55:09
@neutralizer/re-cczhou-20180512t121623784z-20180512t141622761z0-46828381499-45002018-05-13T16:02:57
@steemflagrewards/re-re-cczhou-20180512t121623784z-20180512t141622761z-20180512t1417520-37801223620-36002018-05-13T16:02:24
@anthonyadavisii/re-zhuw08110-20180513t012323020z-20180513t023227526z0-38365420987-36002018-05-13T16:01:06
@anthonyadavisii/re-zhuw08110-20180507t144913324z-20180513t023513605z0-32159249945-30002018-05-13T15:56:54
@yekrats/re-zhuw08110-20180507t160007793z-20180513t133210113z0-19182710493-18002018-05-13T15:57:51

Abuse fighting is often a dirty and thankless job but it MUST be done!

We appreciate any willing to upvote to promote this essential blockchain activity.



It can be a bit frustrating at times


Big Shout out to the @freezepeach project for helping to counter a couple of the past downvotes! Check them out and please support their contributors!

The Way-Ahead

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Keep fighting!!! You might not know it but your work is appreciated!!
I noticed a user with a couple accounts and just posts YouTube videos that I’m pretty sure aren’t theirs and is getting $15-20 per post. Hasn’t commented in 4 months and the only replies to the posts are that the user is on the buildawhale blacklist. He ain’t no heajin but definately working that direction.
I’m trying to dig a little deeper but haven’t had time to check all the countless YouTube videos this person has been using.

There are many of them. I see a handful just on my followers' list alone.

I checked a few of the videos and they are all from different YouTube accounts. I imagine there are tons!! 2 posts a day each making $20 on one account, $40 a day x 30 days that’s $1200 a month. That’s a decent monthly cash in for copying someone else’s content.
Hopefully we can all work together as a community and stop these users in the early stages.

nice work @anthonyadavisii
keep on fighting the good fight

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I'd love to help flag plagiarized posts but with my puny SP, any retaliation will any future posts I do. You said it yourself. He is revenge downvoting.

This is one of the main problems with the Steemit platform. The system actually encourages a "war" of sorts. Also, if a person who is abusing the platform has a large amount of SP, it falls to those others with a large amount to police them. So those people have the option to:

  1. Be somewhat self serving and vote for themselves.
  2. Be benevolent and vote for others/curate.
  3. Police the platform and "waste the vote".

Steemit won't succeed unless flagging and abuse are taken care of in a different way.

You are forgetting an option- Report it to steemcleaners and have them flag the plagiarized posts. You remain anonymous, the person doing the plagiarism is warned/flagged if needed, and you even earn a small reward for helping to fight said plagiarism.

Ah I've seen steemcleaners around but didn't know you could report users to them. That's great! I'll make use of it in the future. That's just what is needed. A further incentive for flagging users who are abusing the platform. Upvoting gives you the incentive of curation and connecting with other users. Downvoting is purely benevolent in it's current state.

Yup, just report it at steemcleaners.org, you'll see what kind of abuse is within their scope and what isn't. Lots of good information there :)

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