Let's Eradicate Plagiarism From Steemit Community

It sounds very bad when you are reported of being plagiarized right? But why don't you try to stop if you are found guilty to be plagiarized. It's time to call a spade a spade! Plagiarism isn't good practice for us to adopt in our system. Hence, we should try to eradicate plagiarism from from Steem.

The fact is that Steem is reputable and credible site making sure to reward every content with originality, creativity and with great proof of Brain. So, we would want to verify every post trooping through Steem website to be original and devoid of any plagiarism. What do you think if most members on Steem are copying and pasting others work without acknowledging their effort of work? We would lose our credibility and a time would come that our app would be sued for theft. We wouldn't want to face these issues which would paint us black.

Most Steemians uplift written text from their original sources and paste it on Steemit editor page to make their post. They don't even attempt to paraphrase. This is great offense to the culprits who engage in such acts.

The use of images in our posts make them visible, beautiful and colorful for our viewers and readers. The images make our work outstanding to Steemit blockchain. Good and creative images attract curators on our posts. Therefore we can't do away with inserting images in our posts. Most images are found to be Plagiarised from some original source without acknowledging the owners.

Many Steemians are also fond of copying and pasting their own original contents. If this happens the contents that are Plagiarised becomes duplicate on Steem Blockchain. Some steemians are either too lazy to form words and produce their original contents, hence end up of repeating their own work severally.

Thanks to our hard woring Moderators in our community in the lights of @arina08, umar69, @koodk & udylicious. Since their appointment in this great Community, they are working tirelessly to scoop out the Plagiarised Steemians.

The fact is that few Steemians have been found to be playing the game of Plagiarism. We have given them notices of the need to keep originality either creating their own work or using Plagiarism free source or cite the content, image or video if they aren't their original work.

The first thing to do if we found someone involving in Plagiarism is to alert the fellow and warn him/her never to engage in such act.

If the fellow is repeatedly posting work involving in Plagiarism, we would consider it to be his/her intention of such act. So we still give warning for the second time and the their time would be muting of his or her content.

At first we use to downvote the fellow's work that has been affected with Plagiarism and withdraw the vote. But we feel that, muting the fellow from the community is even ok.

Please if you don't know how to cite a source of someone's work. You can learn from the Newcomers Introduction posts.