^{I'd like to dedicate this post to all those on this platform who work hard, honestly.}
You know who you are.

And so do the rest of us.

Thank you for being good,

Plagiarizer

 
First, I'd like to thank you for waking up. Well done.

I'm sure that was no easy feat. Please don't strain yourself if you try it again tomorrow. Hit the snooze button all morning if you have to. You've earned it.

Good job. You were able to turn your computer on today. Fantastic.

A round of applause is in order. Seventeen likes.

Now that you're a professional blogger who makes the big bucks, your Facebook friends sure have taken a liking to you. Thanks for letting everyone know your next hit post is coming right up! So exciting. I can't wait.

Thank you for being capable of making another decision shortly after updating your status message.

Isn't it amazing how the coffee can make itself. Everything is automatic. You're not even required to think. That is until you decide to think about something to write about. Just getting to that point must have been difficult for you.

Here.

High Five for being able to put everything down and dedicate your mind resources to some solid thought processing.

High Five

Moving Along

You entered a few words into a search bar. Amazing. I'm not even being sarcastic here. You have to actually know what you want before you get it. That shit is hard to do. Congratulations.

Selecting from the first twenty hits was wise of you. Those are there because they are popular and you would like to be popular too. I don't blame you. Nobody does. Good job on not being afraid to be yourself.

Thank you for highlighting the text like a champ.

That takes some serious hand-eye coordination. You didn't even miss a word. Truly remarkable. I'm taking notes.

Impressive!

You've been a blogger for a few weeks and still have access to your account. That tells me one thing and one thing only. You, are a responsible person. You'll never have to worry about losing your keys or access to the box where the things get pasted.

Three more clicks, your article is nearly finished, and that first cup of coffee is still hot. You should easily be able to pull this off nine more times today.

You work hard. So hard. Just thinking about it makes me jealous. I think it's safe to say, we all strive to be just like you someday.

Thank you for putting your honesty on display.

It must have taken many years to be able to build up that much genuine confidence.

To believe in yourself so much that you'd spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars worth of advertising time just so your hard work and intelligence level can shine brighter than all the others must take huge brains and massive balls.

Not many thieves would walk into a store and kindly announce their name along with the fact they're planning on taking as much as they can carry out the door.

You're so strong both physically and mentally that you managed to pull it off without using weapons or threats.

I'm Speechless

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kindness, generosity, and most importantly; your honesty. I firmly believe all of those in your field could learn a few things from you. Leading by example is noble and should be commended.

It's true, you're one of the good ones. I think we can all agree though, it's takes a special kind of good to be that awesome.

Again

Thank You, Plagiarizer

Good Day

^{The post above was first published and presented to the STEEM community on 2/9/2018.}

I wrote it to poke fun at how idiotic a plagiarist can be. On 2/9/2018, someone used bidbots to push their finest example of a plagiarized post all the way up to the top of the trending page, for all to see.

It doesn't get any dumber than that.

^{"Hi everyone! I'm stealing!"}

But it does get dumber than that.

Since long before 2/9/2018 and up until now (6/16/2019), nothing has been done to prevent a plagiarist from reaching the top slots on the trending page.

Last night I came across a post sitting in the third highest slot on Steemit's trending page. The opening line sounded vaguely familiar, so I clicked, started reading, more and more of it was somehow already inside my memory bank, so I Googled the first paragraph and found a link to a Facebook post.

I first read this "letter to a friend" years ago, on Facebook. I don't remember who shared it, or when, but it was like seeing a movie I forgot about until about a half hour in and then memory kicks in like, oh yeah! I remember seeing this now.

I say nothing has been done to prevent this, and they'll argue and say, "but we have blacklists now!"

That is reactive, not proactive.

I say nothing has been done to prevent this, and they'll argue, "but we removed the votes! They lost money!"

Meanwhile, those selling the votes get to keep the money they received when the plagiarist bought the votes. No matter what they say, my view is this: They truly don't give a shit.

The amount of time this has been going on proves that, in my mind.

Bidbots weren't the only entities promoting plagiarism last night.

^{I saw names of people who are apparently selling their votes now.}

Well known and respected members of the community, voting blinding, promoting plagiarism, for profit.

I can joke about this problem. I will not mention your names though, and make a fool out of you, because you're doing a fine job of making a fool out of yourself. You don't need my help, but I'm sure when I visit your posts and hand you over a nice free vote, you appreciate it.

As a community, I think we can do better.

I'm disappointed to see, after all this time, nothing has been done, and not only that, now folks would prefer to contribute to the problem, rather than helping solve the problem.

I spent a good chunk of my time last night outing a plagiarist. Doing as much as I could with limited resources to get that mess off of the trending page before more consumers could be misled into thinking trash is actually popular around here. It did nothing but make me angry and frustrated. I didn't come back to this platform after a nice long break, to be angry, and frustrated.

I'm not going to get into offering solutions today. For nearly two years I've been pointing out these issues and offering solutions.

All it did was make me look like an asshole.

I once compared the vote selling and vote buyers to crack dealers and crackheads. I explained exactly what happens to a neighborhood once crack cocaine takes over. Property values plummet and the lowest of the low roam the streets.

Look around.

Where did all those fine people go. I followed them for months and enjoyed their work. Why are they gone? Who cares, right?

Whatever.

^{I've been informed, finally, after all this time, people are starting to notice the problem.}

My response to that, was this:

2/8/2018 I said:

If everyone was forced to purchase $50 worth of rewards from these new tax collectors just to be able to remain competitive, that would make $50 worth of rewards the new $1.

Only now they're starting to see it?

Exactly what I said here:
https://steemit.com/life/@nonameslefttouse/how-to-cook-steemit-crack-and-destroy-the-neighborhood

Comparing the paid votes to crack cocaine and the effects crack has on a neighborhood. Drives down property values. I saw that from day one. I was right, and I said it all to help, so we wouldn't be here, in this situation we're in, and they fucking ignored me.

"If the value of the token was high, nobody would complain," they say recently. But I said all that shit, and more shit, during STEEM's all time high, because I didn't want to see the value plummet. So many these days are scratching their heads, wondering why STEEM isn't rising with bitcoin. They put the money in the wrong hands, and ignored all of us who would have done things to make this place lively and thriving. They took a huge shit on EVERY single quality content producer here. Called us names like circle jerkers... when all we did was produce content and HOPE for a goddamn vote, and since some liked our work, we got votes. I started with nothing, and worked up. How the hell can someone with 1000 SP like I had way back in the day be part of some elaborate scheme to share votes... when my vote wasn't worth SHIT! People just voted, organically, didn't care how much money I had. I wasn't alone either. There were thousands of us producing cool stuff and enjoying our time here. Nearly all of them are fucking GONE now. People move out when crack moves in and you're left with SHIT... and the property value drops. NEVER recovers.

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To conclude.

^{That plagiarist will now pout about losing a few dollars and getting caught.}

He'll start up a new account, move some tokens around, and be back at it so you folks can promote it. Solid teamwork, everyone.

Give yourselves a nice pat on the back and if you need a new set of blinders to wear after reading this, just have your people contact my people and we'll work something out. $5.99 and free shipping. Mine have a two year guarantee as well, just like the ones you were wearing before.

Have a nice day.

Credits:All art and images seen here were produced digitally, by me.
^{"Maybe I should just buy your vote so you don't have to look at this reality?"}

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