Steemit Police!
Hello again Dear steemians, Today I saw another steem-crime and It makes me think about how can we defend ourselves and each, and our steem brothers and sisters in here.
If you go to the #Introduceyourself trending posts you'll see that in 1st place is this post from @hardfork-series, minutes ago I was looking at the new introduceyoursef posts in order to find good content from new users, welcome then and offer some basic help when I end up finding this post from a new user named @tuff333.
as you can see it is the same post, same title even same tags, only diference between then is that the coped one's text is not as well formated as the original one:
the original:
the copy:
As you can see in my previos post I've experienced a similar situation about a week ago.
when It happened to me I was only able to notice that thanks to @omwith who message me warning about what she has seen.
So today I decided do the same, I just send a reply to @hardfork-series post:
and also a small transfer with the same message as a memo:
when we have a look at @tuff333 blog's page we see that he is a brand new user but it appers to have copy several posts from others, as far as I know thins behavior should not be tolerated in our beloved community.
So this second experience with this kind of stuff make me think that we should build an mechanism to make it easier to punish this kind of behavior at the same time we spread this this to the whole Community, I mean only myself I could only notify the author about what happened, but since I do not have enough SP neither the author even if we both flag him, this will have almost no effect on it, and he could probable keep doing this kind of stuff until some whale finally find what he is doing and decided to smash his reputation removing this kind of user from our community.
So thinking about this realized that a simple creation of a Tag to expose criminal behavior like this could not only make this justice process faster but even motivate users to act like #steemit-police. The idea is anytime you see a crime or something that go strictly against the steemit rules like this you could make a post with links and images showing what you have seen with this tag, and users with more SP could at least once a day have a look at the #steemit-police too see if they could help punishing those who are acting against the community rules. this way we would have a decentralized justice where the whole community will be together fighting to make steemit a better place to everyone.
I think this should work couse:
1- Redfish and minnows (which is probably like 80% or evem more of steemit users) will be highly motivated to seek for people acting against the rules in order to make a post exposing them, couse they will should get some reward for his work from the whales who will judge it.
2- Whales are already earning a lot just for curation, so they surely want steemit to be a successful site forever, so helping useful users that expose bad behavior to grow in here by the time punishing bad users making steemit an even better place and more attractive to everyone which will surely makes our beloved community grow stronger and healthier.
3- Bad users will not last long in here, once they are massively downvoted and got a negative reputation, he will have no other option then abandon that account OR trying to make a new one but now following the rules
This way we should drastically reduce the amount of bad users in here by the time we create another mechanism to help redfishes and minnows to grow.
By the end of the day everybody win ^^/
please let me know what you think at this Idea, also if you have any suggestion of making it better, remember we are all together in this amazing spaceship called steemit, and together let's get where no other human was able to step on!
Ps: Remember by just clicking in the resteem button you will be giving an amazingly support to great content authors to keep doing his good work. So do not hesitate to resteem or even making a post about a good content you have seen, share it with your brothers and sisters! ^^
Thank you for reading my post.
I'm @andyluy a Brazilian college student, freshman at cryptocurrencies who live in Rio de Janeiro and love to make new friends, travel around the world and having adventures!I intend to post about amazing things I've experienced, and hope soon be able to bring you with me to my new adventures !
You are invited to follow me and be my guest into this experiences.
Welcome here. Nice idea this steemit police hehe. I will keep an eye on it.
pretty good idea. I will try to keep an eye on that topic, as for this 'copier' I have down voted him to less than zero.
keep up the good work, I will follow and hope to see more posts like this
@fiveboringgames In subjects like this the more we all act together the better is the resoults we get, Thank you very much for your collaboration lets build up this wonderland named as Steemit
Steem on !
Congratulations on another interesting topic.
thank you very much for the resteem and also for your feedback!
Don'tcha love it when people actually read your posts haha!
I like the idea of using a tag when we come across this kind of illegal behaviour. I'm still a complete newbie though, so I'm afraid I don't have much input as to whether this would work well. Sounds logical to me though!
Also, what is a Redfish?? I've not heard that term... ?
Yeah it is good ! XD
yeah, the great thing behind this is that don't really matter if we have much or none SP *we can participate on this even downvoting or making post point to the criminals and another great thing is that is a great opportunity for people with little SP to collaborate positively with the community and get rewarded for it.
in the end everybody wins ^^
they It appears to be that steemit calls Redfishes the new accounts with 0~1000 SP minnow is suppose to be above 1000 SP, but almost every one only knows about the minnow, dolphin and whale names XP
Let's make Steemit a better, cleaner place.
Helping @cheetah & @steemcleaners cleanse the community. ;)
yeah those bots, have good intention behind them but I really believe the solution must be decentralized with everyone participating like the whole steemit Idea \o/\o/\o/
Steemcleaners is not a bot, it's real people. You can send links to steemcleaners, on steemit.chat. I'm doing that myself when I find plagiarism, and lately that is increasingly often.
Oh, that's an really interesting info! thank you @kooshikoo !
You are welcome.
I like having the @cheetah bot around. If I see @cheetah in comments, I flag as necessary. Even though I don't read a lot of articles, I like to responding to good ones. I see that person you mention got flagged numerous times on that article.
It's always better if we all participate in making steemit a more desirable place to stay. Definitely plagiarism is a big no-no here. Let us all help build the community! :)
good pst . helpful. thanks
Thank you @mingled.mind! ^^
@sherlockholmes is looking for helpers.
I didn't knew about this account, it is really interesting indeed !!
I didn't know this band, I liked the music and clip!
thank you for posting it =D
It is a snappy tune ,just sing along and say Steem police instead of dream police. success2u
I fully support this @andyluy!! Since few weeks ago I see plagiarism and spamming has increased a lot! If this is going to be the future of Steemit, I think someone needs to do something on this respect!
yeah that's exactly what I think since we are in this amazing decentralized technology I strongly believe that decentralizing the fight against it is the one of the more accurately way do deal with.
We fight together, We rise together! \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/
Great work! It's good to see copy-cats getting toasted!
Yeah thats the Idea !
loved the gif LoL
Thank you for posting about this. Copying someone else's work is basically theft of intellectual content but the only way to enforce that is by building a community that monitors and reports it, so Thank for doing this! My company just joined steemit two weeks ago but we do work tracking false data, and we can could probably drum up a few volunteers to help if you want to organize a group to monitor intellectual property theft.
That's is something really interesting to think about, I think I should make some more post about this subject to help organizing Ideas, but I'm already truly grateful to know we can cont with your help, I'll be following you, and keep in touch to any further news !
And welcome to you and your company, you surely made a great choice when decided to join on steemit!
Steem on!