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RE: Plagiarism on Steemit: @messwir - Why You Shouldn’t Plagiarize

in #steemit6 years ago (edited)

Hey man, thanks for the kind words. Sucks to have to flag minnows for plagiarizing hard work from people like yourself and @elizbethleavos at Disobedient Media.

I think the reason why these posts were not detected by @cheetahbot was because of the rewording you showed here in your post. I can't say 100% for certain but it would appear that the word substitutions were done to avoid detection.

From your own investigation, it looks like much of it is done using the mobile app. which is interesting.

I know a lot of these accounts originate from developing countries where earning $2 STEEM a week from a post can make a huge impact on people's lives. It's just very unfortunate that they're choosing to copy and paste other people's work in order to earn.

I originally became suspicious of some posts because they used the #deepdives tag but were not geared towards our current challenge. I'm hearing that this type of abuse is quite common across the platform with other tags as well. Certainly feels like a never ending game of whack-a-mole at times.

Cheers!

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I know a lot of these accounts originate from developing countries where earning $2 STEEM a week from a post can make a huge impact on people's lives.

This, I totally understand.

But of course, it should not come at the expense of others.

@steemgh is a great example of how someone in such a circumstance can be if it from this amazing platform the right way: by building up his account with authentic content.

THAT is what I'd like to see. Not this plagiarism BS. That's just going to get you nowhere… I wish people understood that.

Anyway, I want to thank you again for the work you've done. If not for you I would never have known about this!! 🤗

Good work v4vapid. The poor people you describe could help with such necessary vigilante work, that would be one useful thing they could do instead of plagiarizing the hard work of others. If the platform becomes more successful surely there will be an ever growing amount of work such as this to do. Many other problems are arising, such as flagging wars that I mention above. All problems that could be turned into business opportunities.

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