RE: @msgivings, frequent trending author, has been EXPOSED for plagiarism. The question remains: Is this what Steemit wants to be?
Her material had turned to drivel. Whales were still voting on it because they get in that habit. I know on our curation team, we had some discussions about her posts and all agreed it was overvalued. That wasn't material we could have supported.
Regarding plagiarism, we're all trying to catch it. I think we all just need to stay vigilant about any possible issues with people who are not posting original content. On Project Curie, we have proven Steemit writers conducting multiple reviews of each of these posts. We miss a few, but not many.
You are right we all need to work hard to reach those people who have not made rewards like this but deserve to do so.
I'm not going to worry about this case any more, though. It's water under the bridge. We try to learn from it and move on.
Maybe a post or something indicating how the community can help you catch these things. Some of these accounts (actually many of them) were noticed by a number of people who did research before the REST of the community seemed to catch on. That was often thousands of dollars later.
oh boy. so true!!!!
Thank you for reading and commenting! For me it's more like a cautionary tale, if we don't pay attention, someone will take advantage and we will all get hurt in the process. Vigilance, attention and rewarding good content good people good community builders even is what will take us to the Steemit we all dream of.
Curie is a huge step in that direction, as I said.