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    For me the ultimate way to fight plagiarism would be for a question that is worded exactly the same way to have this happen:

    1. Disallow the question. Maybe the submit box could be grayed out until something new showed up in the text box.

    If that's not possible to do, then the next option would be to:

    1. Create a blacklist of known plagiarizing accounts, as people either mention them on musing or on the discord channel.

    If a blacklist is too much work:

    1. Maybe a whitelist instead. We could start out with known users on the platform and then add as people request it and are somehow screened. That would be a lot of work, too, and a pain to the good user, but if we're talking about cutting plagiarism, there needs to be a way to filter out the plagiarizing accounts.

    2. Utilize the existing list/database of questions and then frequently refer to it. I've been using the search for a question box at the top of the page, and it's taken me to questions that were made weeks if not months ago if the question is duplicated. The musing community managers/curators could type in a question before rewarding it. If it's word for word, than they merely stop rewarding those repeated questions. Eventually, those accounts might see they're not getting the benefit of the musing upvote.

    3. I'm not a fan of flagging, but done right, and maybe only given to community managers or certain users, it would be helpful. We don't need flag wars here on musing, though, and I don't know how flagging could be fairly and appropriately distributed if any users were allowed to do it without all being able to.

    4. See if these accounts are already blacklisted elsewhere and work from there. There could be some issues with someone else's list, but incorporating an existing blacklist from somewhere else on STEEM would be faster than creating one from scratch.

    Things I wouldn't do:

    1. Limit the number of questions and answers a user can create, unless it's high, like a dozen a day. That probably wouldn't be of much good, anyway. However, I don't think we want to discourage prolific users from asking and answering questions. We want to discourage the plagiarism by de-incentivizing it while not doing the same for good users.

    2. Stop the musing account from upvoting all questions. Since questions drive answers, we still need them, and I think it's only fair that those who ask original and engaging questions be rewarded accordingly.

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