A tireless plagiarist: one year of copy/paste

in #utopian-io6 years ago (edited)


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In the past few days @ilgiaguaro have reported the case of a user who constantly abuses bidbots on plagiarized posts

Today, we’re going to see a similar case. We think that in the Steem platform, users like this one need to be stopped as soon as possible.

We're going to see a tireless plagiarist who keeps on posting photos and memes stolen from various social networks, obviously without attributing any source. On top of that, he use smartsteem to receive upvotes, so his reputation is flying on 66.

Since its debut on the platform, about a year ago, @drfk showed what type of blogger he would like to become: an expert copy-paster.

So, why do we keep on squeezing our brains to create something good or fun to post, when to build an high rep, it seems it is enough to stole ideas from others and stick a sort of signature?


@ drfk’s post

source: note the publication date, march 2018


Let's see another post, more recent.


@ drfk’s post

and make inverse research on google images:

This is the significant contribution brought by @drfk to the platform: images already published on the internet at least 25.270.000.000 times.

The question is: is this post worth $ 4.90?

Or the following, is it worth over $ 5?


@ drfk’s post

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I hope that all the blacklists compiled thanks to the work of all the cleaners will be soon unified and integrated into the various bidbot services. Otherwise, you could find out, sooner or later, to support with your upvotes someone who every day are working to devaluate Steem.

Steem's blockchain must not become a place where abusers have high reputation and make easy money.

This is @lagiaguara, reporting directly from the Jungle.
Onwards!

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