RE: Observations Fighting a Serial Plagiarist—True Story!
Add to that:
Bots are there to track down basic copy/paste
We will track down even translated partial texts aka. "cut outs" of the original text
If your a plagiarist don't worry, your probably right now under investigation...
It would've been nice that this "team" has it's own "witness" or a "shared" high SP account or a active whale that would help to flag down posts or the proposal at the end of the comment.
Last night we encountered a problem, we knew about that post being plagiarized but, the "whales" that voted on that post weren't active...For everyone thinking this isn't a big problem, let me just say this: A user recently with 3 fake accounts has cashed out so far 3600$ and is powering down on 2 of 3 accounts where he had success (still pulling out money). All this money could've gone to other posts/comments etc... But this user is now past... This recent user mentioned in the post above shows how much did plagiarism finding and stopping improve.
A personal note to the post:
It's not anyones fault for voting that, not Dan's or Ned's or anyones, the post looks genuine, no one will check the post for plagiarism and do a extensive research prior to voting, so you can't blame anyone for voting on that... What need's improving is the reaction to found plagiarism for it to be faster and more effective.
So "whales" should join the channel so that we have a quicker response time. You don't have to be active in the channel just, be there, so if a "lucky copy/paste fish" comes along, you will be notified with the all command.
I wish I had something to say other than you've hit the nail on it's head!
I don't blame Dan and Ned. I'm simply stating my opinion—a result of my time spent on the site. We need their support at all times.
Totally agreed to this. If a select few users could have posting privileges of one such a/c that alone would make a huge difference. It will offload work from several whales too. Imagine spending all your time on a chatroom away from the real world fighting spammers...
Most users in the community are only interested in whale bashing.. they don't see what they do or what spammers are upto.. People need to mature as well.
Absolutely. All this has been a result for a tiny group of people accomplishing this. We can do it and we will continue doing it!