RE: The Community Battle Against Plagiarizers, Cheaters and System Abusers!
For some reason, I didn't get a mention in my notifications but saw you in my feed so obviously read it 🙂
Thank you for the support.
As the plagiarists are exposed, much like your Google example, their methods adapt. I've seen this in the short time that we've been fighting it already. I'm not aware of any sophisticated tools yet, the online tools are all so basic that they're easily fooled.
It's an incredibly time consuming process to catch users who have stolen thousands of dollars from the platform. It's rather depressing to be honest with you. Once one is caught, you move on to the next one. All the while, knowing that you are not doing the things you joined the platform for - authoring and reading content.
What keeps me motivated is gratitude from the community and the feeling that I'm not doing this alone. In fact, others have stepped up and @sumanthp in particular is sharing a dozen articles every day.
My reply is all over the place.
It makes me sad.
Thanks for doing what you do!
It's a lot of work, yes, and you're only going to catch some of them... but every single one helps. And since so many people are drawn to Steem for financial reasons, the fact their their efforts can be downvoted to ZERO will make a difference.
Sadly, there will always be those who try to game the system. All we can do is our best to keep some sort of lid on how widespread the problem becomes.
I will certainly keep my eyes peeled for anything that seems a bit off.