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RE: Today's Truffle Picks: Quality Steemit Posts that deserve more Rewards and Attention! (03.03.2018)
Also, if you think about it: This is actually pretty cool, it singled out the BluePaper as a pretty valuable publication. The bot cannot know about plagiarism unless it is flagged by @cheetah! So to him this post is the original BluePaper :-)
Indeed... Too bad It isnt the author.
I browsed a bit among these hardcore plagiarizing accounts. There are all not very valuable with quite a low reputation. Maybe it makes sense to include reputation in the final ranking step.
For example, if your rep is below 40 your ranking score is halved. However, that increases the false negative rate. Fresh new users and minnows that produce fine and original content, but have a low reputation because of their account age, would be punished by this as well. Hard to tell if this is worth the risk. I would suggest to observe the bot for a while and see if more plagiarized content pops up by these accounts. If so, filtering will be needed.
Maybe a blacklist of confirmed scammers/plagiarists?
Add a warning on his posts after the blacklists, and leave it open for a future review if they improve.
Yes, I would love to get my hands on such a blacklist. I tried to obtain the one used by @steemcleaners but haven't reached anyone on Discord, yet. But this is definitely on the agenda.