Possibly plagiarism? Yup. You're welcome, Steemit. I've downvoted the post and fuck it I'm upvoting my comment because I spent my time getting this sorted out and won't get a goddamn thing for it.
*edit: This plagiarist has since edited the post to make it appear as if he's innocent. It's all on the blockchain. Anyone in the know can still see what was originally written here.
He missed the end signature.
~ Rahul Kaushik :)I'm about 90% sure I read this facebook post, years ago, before this facebook link was published. I can't remember which friend and what year that was though. It sounded so damn familiar to me though, once I started reading. I only had to google the first paragraph to find that copy but something is telling me that link isn't even the original.
It probably isn't, but the chance of this guy being the original is slim to none.
I guess one of the best places to hide this sort of behavior would be the trending page. "Smart Steem". One of the worst things that has ever happened to this place.
It's not even that they sell the votes that is the problem, it is the complete unwillingness to clean up or take any responsibility for the shit they upvote.
If they even showed a tiny bit of willingness I would consider them just a tool. and smartsteem shows up on everyone that is a problem.
I used to sell the occasional vote via them, but I can't do it anymore, because they don't self police at all.
I sell my votes and I have to review them on SmartSteem on regular basis.
Have actually found some scummy stuff through my experience.
Voting blindly could lead to plenty of people "promoting" a scam, then having to answer to authorities. People do time for promoting scams. Is a few dollars profit worth the risk? Not to me. Am I paranoid? No. I protect myself and that means I don't do stupid things that could potentially lead to a worst case scenario like the one stated above. I don't wear sandals to the construction site.
Yeah, I generally don't visit trending unless directed here.
I think @therealwolf allows pull requests for SmartSteem blacklists now. I haven't looked into it, but yeah, I get what you are saying.
I just wish they'd clean up their act. There's more money to be made with an honest approach. And I don't just mean @therealwolf. They've ignored it all though for two years so whatever. I'll get shit on for even talking about wanting things to be better around here.
If it makes you feel better, some of them are starting to see them as detrimental ventures.
2/8/2018
Only now they're starting to see it?
Exactly what I said here:
https://steemit.com/life/@nonameslefttouse/how-to-cook-steemit-crack-and-destroy-the-neighborhood
Comparing the paid votes to crack cocaine and the effects crack has on a neighborhood. Drives down property values. I saw that from day one. I was right, and I said it all to help, so we wouldn't be here, in this situation we're in, and they fucking ignored me.
"If the value of the token was high, nobody would complain," they say recently. But I said all that shit, and more shit, during STEEM's all time high, because I didn't want to see the value plummet. So many these days are scratching their heads, wondering why STEEM isn't rising with bitcoin. They put the money in the wrong hands, and ignored all of us who would have done things to make this place lively and thriving. They took a huge shit on EVERY single quality content producer here. Called us names like circle jerkers... when all we did was produce content and HOPE for a goddamn vote, and since some liked our work, we got votes. I started with nothing, and worked up. How the hell can someone with 1000 SP like I had way back in the day be part of some elaborate scheme to share votes... when my vote wasn't worth SHIT! People just voted, organically, didn't care how much money I had. I wasn't alone either. There were thousands of us producing cool stuff and enjoying our time here. Nearly all of them are fucking GONE now. People move out when crack moves in and you're left with SHIT... and the property value drops. NEVER recovers.
The post here is a copy of the Facebook version with slight alterations/spinning.
Yeah, I know. Fucking robots made more money from this post than I have all week. Awesome!
Nah, he bought all of the votes here and buying votes on plagiarism is a bad move. Good to see you're back.
The money this dipshit spent stays in the hands of those who received it, regardless of these downvotes. His loss, their gain, and they gives no fuck.
Thanks though. It's great to be back!
grumble grumble fucking grumbleThis alone qualifies for another drama. 😂
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Feel free to submit a blacklist request here (https://github.com/smartsteem/blacklist/blob/master/list.json), if you encounter more plagiarized content, where promotion has been bought from Smartsteem.com.
In case this is too technical, you can mention @smartsteem.
Thank you!
I saw the vote on my comment and I appreciate it, but I'm wondering if you have a program in place that rewards people for spending time looking for this garbage?
Did you refund the plagiarist's money?
That blacklist failed to prevent this incident. Steemcleaners failed to prevent this incident. Many consumers of this content were duped. This tarnishes the image of the entire platform. Can something be done that could be considered Proactive rather than Reactive?
Hmmm. That sounds familiar. 🤔
Would be nice for bid bot owners to compensate when people go out of their way to report. The problem is that when they unvote they lose money and then to reward the reporter, they lose even more.
I mean we see the big picture but I can see from a more narrow business perspective why they don't. It's all about maximizing the return to their delegators.
Perhaps they could delegate to an antiabuse flag account + @steemflagrewards and when abuse is reported. Use the flag account to remove ROI from the abuser, receive flag rewards and redirect that to their delegators.
It may not be as profitable as not unvoting but at least its not supporting abuse. Think that could work maybe.
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