RE: 🆕 Do You Trust New Users?
I totally agree - AI detection tools are crap and I don't think they should be used.
Sometimes I publish the original text in Italian, but I know very well that automatic translation is crap, so the dilemma is: publish a well-translated text risking the detector or an original text that will seem like crap to English speakers? 😑
This is an interesting dilemma. In many ways, I prefer users to write in their native language - it's then easier for me to use my preferred translator and it's easier to interpret "mistakes" or "changes" that translators make, knowing that the author's own words have the meaning that they've intended. If I translated my content into Italian without providing the English, I don't know if some of my "feelings" will get lost in translation. The flip-side of this is that I'll sometimes look for new content on my mobile phone, where translation tools are cumbersome and I'll only look for English content.
If a writer is good and also publishes on other platforms, why can't he publish here and vice versa?
This is another interesting dilemma - one reason is the detrimental affect that it has on the SEO of the sites that you don't publish to first. Each post on Steemit, Hive, etc. is automatically marked as "canonical", e.g. for my post...
<link rel="canonical" href="https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@the-gorilla/do-you-trust-new-users"
...this code means it is the master version - i.e. it has not been copied from somewhere else. If Google sees multiple sites set as "canonical", with the same content then it then automatically decides that the most recent (i.e. not the oldest) has been copied, therefore plagiarised and therefore the site is "marked down" as a result... which then affects that site's Search Engine Ranking.
Also quality content cannot be written every day, it is very difficult and takes time and effort, so I think that a content can be used several times by its author even on steemit. For example, if someone posted a fantasy story three months ago and then there's a fantasy story contest, why can't they enter with their old post? It's their property. 😎
Academically speaking, copying your own content is still considered plagiarism. Whilst I agree that you should be able to reuse your own content, and I wouldn't criticise anybody for doing so, a simple solution is to reference your original article... perhaps even with a simple introduction of "I wrote this some time ago ..link.. which appeared to be ignored so I'd like to share it with you again as entry to this contest" or similar. Like an academic reference to your own work 🙂
Excellent comment, thanks for your thoughts 👍
I didn't know the trick of google Seo here 😑, yes could be a problem.
For the self content, for sure, I agree with you, should be done with clear reference and links to the old post! I'm not for re-mixing and recycling old materials out of laziness. But I believe that if when you post you know that the content will last beyond 7 days, it would also be an incentive for quality.
That's a good point. I've come across good content that is more than 7 days old which I'd like to support but "likes" aren't registered and the author won't benefit (whereas I think YouTube still rewards creators years after the initial publishing). This would be a great incentive for increasing quality and that quality would subsequently attract more traffic from Search Engines.
There are so many challenges with regards to maintaining quality. Using me as an example, I know that every post has a minimum amount that it will be voted due to the auto-votes & curation trail support. So (in many ways similar to a voting service), I could write a "lazy post" every day and hope that my current supporters don't lose interest. But that's not me and I take pride in everything I write and everything that I share (including the comments themselves)... which is why that "base level" support exists and I don't post something every day.
Linking back to your other comment, it ultimately comes down to motivation for writing. If users are solely motivated by the rewards, then I believe that comes through in their activity which will probably have a detrimental affect on their rewards. For those that take pride in everything that they produce, it could well be a "slower burn" but once they're alight, they'll burn long and strong.
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