RE: Learn with Steem: Top Posts for 04 August 2022
It is disappointing to see the removal of "LearnwithSteem" tag. My team understood the sole purpose of the tag which is for tutorials and lesson-related content. I understand the reason for the Steemit team to dissolve the theme because a lot of users were abusing the tag by posting unrelated and poor-quality content under the tag.
My team has been fighting spun/spam content under the tag since the theme was introduced. In the first month of LearnwithSteemi, we took time to mentor and orient users on the type of content posted under the tag. We blacklisted a lot of users for multiple plagiarisms and kept one-time offenders under our watch.
Some time ago, I tried to get SC01 attention about the high rate of farming accounts from Pakistans, These set of users were taking advantage of #learnwithsteem tag and were constantly posting in Steemskill share community. A community with no moderation and the Admin was powering down. My team took note of these users and we stopped supporting their publications. The same format and method of writing.
After they noticed our suspension, most of them decamped to Steem Graphics and Steem-database. But my team already knew these users because their method of writing and quality of content is the same. We spend most of our time filtering spun content under the tag and we hardly find quality content under the tag. But the curation account needs to be utilized and we can't leave the account idle. Sometimes, we go ahead to curate Engagement posts after exhausting the posts under the tag.
Nevertheless, we still have good authors and tutors under learnwithsteem tag teaching quality content and sharing their skills. The problem is that they do not post often and this will leave the curation account most times idle.
This is a new theme and will take more time to achieve the aim of introducing the theme. My team has put a lot of work curating under the tag. We keep making changes and implementing strict measures to achieve the goal of the theme. I hope the Learnwithsteem theme will be reconsidered again.
Unfortunately this post below, caught by @inspiracion, demonstrates that plagiarized posts under #learnwithsteem are not being detected...
This sort of plagiarized post should be trivial to spot. When someone is writing fluently about a technical subject that they obviously have no professional or academic knowledge of then there is a 99.9% chance that it is plagiarized.
You did not mention the numerous cases of plagiarised contents we reported throughout our time as curators.
Well, I had great team members and I'm confident they were dedicated to the work they did.