Additionally to help prevent this, posts from people with reputations below 45 will not be eligible to receive votes from @steemcurator02.

This new rule along with the minimum scoring rule would definitely help curb the number of plagiarized content in the academy posts.

Could we also consider having an extra rule wherein the user who is posting his/her assignment posts should be active outside the crypto academy as well?

What I have observed is that there are a few accounts(plagiarized ones) with a reputation greater than 50 but post only the assignments and nothing else.

Regardless of any additional rules, we from the mosquito squishers community will try and help by tracking down plagiarists during the academy week.

CC: @steemitblog @the-gorilla @endingplagiarism @sapwood @steemcurator01