He's an editor who posts on behalf of unknown authors and then forwards the rewards to them. He checks the articles before posting them and his other posts have been clean, but the language apparently made the plagiarism here harder to identify and it slipped through. Once it was discovered, it was the poster himself who asked me to flag it to cancel all rewards.
Ah, very cool. I had my doubts it was intentional, as I've seen a lot of very popular content from @gavvet .
I skimmed through the #steemitabuse-classic room on steemit.chat and saw parts of the conversation, but wasn't able to come to a conclusive reason behind the incident. Thanks for the info and kudos to all for taking care of it and keeping Steemit clean. :)
@smooth How do you know that rewards are forwarded to authors? There doesn't seem to be any regular outgoing transfer from his account to exchanges.
To me it just seems like he has a way to pick article from the web ( in foreign languages for example), get a quick translation done and post it here.
That appears to have happened in one case out of >100 posts. If anyone can find evidence of a pattern then we will have to reach a different conclusion.
Wow. Why would someone with such high reputation points resort to plagiarism?
He's an editor who posts on behalf of unknown authors and then forwards the rewards to them. He checks the articles before posting them and his other posts have been clean, but the language apparently made the plagiarism here harder to identify and it slipped through. Once it was discovered, it was the poster himself who asked me to flag it to cancel all rewards.
Ah, very cool. I had my doubts it was intentional, as I've seen a lot of very popular content from @gavvet .
I skimmed through the #steemitabuse-classic room on steemit.chat and saw parts of the conversation, but wasn't able to come to a conclusive reason behind the incident. Thanks for the info and kudos to all for taking care of it and keeping Steemit clean. :)
@smooth How do you know that rewards are forwarded to authors? There doesn't seem to be any regular outgoing transfer from his account to exchanges.
To me it just seems like he has a way to pick article from the web ( in foreign languages for example), get a quick translation done and post it here.
That appears to have happened in one case out of >100 posts. If anyone can find evidence of a pattern then we will have to reach a different conclusion.