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RE: My Entry Post for the Pay-it-Forward Curation Contest - Week 33 (@aggamun)
Your first entry is actually likely using stolen content and then translating it...very poorly at that. If this was actually his vacation he would have photos from the vacation and not be using stock photos. Can't prove this is the case as the words make no sense in the order they are, which often means "spun content" where they use software to hide the fact it's stolen content by swapping out words. This avoids the "word for word" match that can be done by plagiarism checkers...but then it leaves a post like this one where nothing even comes close to making sense.
PIFC won't upvote that post, but we will take the entry as valid and let others make their own decision if they want to support it or not.
Thanks you @thedarkhorse. I think I made a big mistake for this week. I really don't know he is doing that.So sorry. I promise I don't do it again. 😢
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It's hard sometimes to tell, but as you see more and more posts you start to notice patterns like the words that make no sense at all. A few of them aren't a dead giveaway, but when something reads horrible like this...to the point that much makes no sense at all then it's probably spun content.
To be honest I felt it was and posted in the judges room to see everyone's opinion. They agreed, but as it could have just been someone writing in a language they don't know well I figured it was worth checking with them. So it wasn't as obvious as some are.
One thing, people who are writing outside their normal language tend to stick to simple words. These are the same words someone with a lower level education would use even in their native language. So when odd words that don't make sense and are less used words get inserted instead of a common word it really raises questions about the post. Hope that makes sense. Just picture if you speak 2 languages how you write in your native language vs your secondary language which you don't know nearly as well.
They also tend to write shorter posts as the words are harder to figure out for them and sentance structure is more of an issue...not using random words that make no sense.
It's always a combination of things put together to see a spammer.
Don't feel bad, it happens and that is why your entry is considered valid. You can remove the link to the spammer if you want or let others decide for themselves if it's worth a vote.