RE: Stupid Steemit and most of its Deepstate Witnesses Sucks
I disagree @cryptothoughts for these reasons;
As far as I'm aware @cheetah works by scouring the web for similar content, if it finds a copied article, it posts a comment on the steemit article saying that it found similar content and puts a link to that content. It also gives the author time to contact it via chat.
It does this a number (I'm not sure how many) of times, if the poster keeps ignoring, it then starts to flag.
Of course a lot of us have multiple platforms which we post on, so it is fairly easy to prove it really is us.
However if say an account that we'll call @X copies some of my stuff and then reposts it here for a reward, then I want them flagged because it's my content so I should get the rewards.
We have to treat this differently from facebook and all the other free social sites. If someone reposts my stuff on those sites, great, they're promoting me. However on Steemit, some people will copy and paste content that doesn't belong to them and make big rewards.
Is that fair?
So maybe the law bots do need to reform, and sharpen up their performance, but we do need them checking for plagiarism.
Thanks for the reply @cryptogee
The people that i have seen getting (what i would call attacked by the law bots) hardly have $0.01 - $0.05 rewards per post. I personally feel that is about right for sharing some decent content, if it's theirs or not (attribution given or not).
What winds me up is when i see all the lawbots displaying injustice.... i.e. letting "some people or themselves" away with stuff.... like allowing a hacker to post stuff on here for monetary rewards! or selfvoting themselves or creating irrelevant lists for monetary rewards!
Yet sharing decent unattributed content (clearly not doing it for the measly rewards of $0.05 a post) they are doing it to share some alternative content / perhaps support their non steemit blog, is justified & attacked.
One good reform the law bots could carry out, would be to not attack someone if the rewards are lower than $0.025
This reward level turns to dust (the dust cap threshold) so the owner (plagiarist or not) does not receive any reward anyways.
This would save the law bots some work & make them appear less authoritarian. Whilst increasing user retention rates and would help steemit to prosper.