Thank you for all the kind messages yesterday and to those who contacted me on Discord. I'm still conflicted which probably won't change any time soon. Today might decide things.
Today, I decided to set the community a test and went out and found a load of articles that are plagiarsed and taking a significant sum of money.
Seeing as @goodreader is still happily plagiarising away despite the repeated notifications, I decided to include a few of his mates in my list too. Not all of them but enough to give you a challenge.
Since I joined, I've noticed that in a significant number of cases, the thing to do is to earn a bit then move your money into upvoting services. This benefits the upvoting service and the person using it. It appears to be of absolutely no value to the Steemit community and its growth.
Meanwhile, 8 users have decided to use their power differnetly and delegate some steem to @endingplagiarism, to help in this cause. Thank you to those few. However, my 16,000 Steem Power is totally inadequate to do anything other than take out a couple of dollars.
So let's see what the community's got. If you want me to keep going, delegate some power to me or downvote the list of articles in the next post I share (I'm killing off @plagiaristpayout and will be posting the pending payouts from this account) or downvote and then delegate. The 3rd option's probably best given that I've already downvoted them all.
If at the end of the next 7 days things are looking pathetic on the community spirit front, then I'll tell you I'm done, you can take it back and we'll get back to our daily activites and delegation to upvoting services.
New Articles Flagged
4 Stage Process
- Stage 1 - 1st Warning - Pointing people towards Achievement 3 and highlighting this process. All plagiarised posts currently pending rewards will be flagged and downvoted to $0 rewards.
- Stage 2 - A Final Warning - Another request to stop and that plagiarism will not be tolerated. Downvotes amounting to 20% of total pending rewards according to steemworld.
- Stage 3 - A stronger message - Downvotes amounting to 50% of pending rewards.
- Stage 4 - The strongest message possible - Downvotes amounting to 100% of pending rewards.
Plagiarists will bypass stage 1 if translated from another language.