Fighting Abuse on Steem, Part-2: Plagiarism and Fraud: @alandchi

 

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Hello my dear Steemians and Art Fans,

 

Hello dear Steemians and as we mentioned in last post, today we wanted to take a close look at another user whose name was mentioned by @ella the user who was in our previous posts. She mentioned that @alandchi is her brother and invited to Steemit.

 

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@alandchi

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He is a user from Nigeria and joined in August 2021 and he was invited by one of his friend:
“I got to know steemit through the help of @paulyoung”

In his introductory posts it is clear stated that the user understand that Plagiarism is not tolerated. But looking through the posts of the user, the Artworks he presenting are all stolen as well as in one posts the text is copied and pasted.

 

 

Once again we see the comment from country curator:

 

 

Let’s see what the user is posting. Just a short look at his blog and immediately two stolen images. You remember the drawing of Chris Brown that was already in the blog of @ellla too.

 

 

The lion is from that website:

 

 

 

Art Deception 1 presented in “Italy” community: @alandchi

 

 

The user’s image still containing the signature of the original Artist and you see the Price for the drawing

 

 

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Deception case 2 presented in Steem Sports: @alandchi

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The original drawing is taken from ArtStation from Sharma Jay:

 

 

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Deception case 3 presented in StockPhotos: @alandchi

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Original drawing you can find here:

 

 

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***Plagiarism Post stolen text: ***

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While we saw this cute image that brought us to very long and comprehensive text. In order to do it the person should be one who write a lot but the user normal does not.

Just out of curiosity we checked his text for plagiarism and these are two articles that were merged into this one posts. It is sad to know that not only the Images but the user is copying and pasting the full articles from Internet.

 

 

The text is build up from different articles here are the links:

 

 

 

 

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Communities and their roles:

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As you might remember we have already discuss the role of country curators last time. Seeing this user, he posted in different communities and one community may not seen the deception in his posts then it would be understandable. But this user posted in few different communities his own but also in #SteemAlive, #Steem Promo, #Newcomer’ Community, #Steemkids, #Account Booster, #Steem Entrepreneurs, #Writing & Reviews, #WOX

Seeing such cases, it is a dilemma how we can prevent it. In my opinion if someone is inviting their friends or persons they know they should feel themselves responsible and should on and off check on those users. I would like to draw the attention of @paulyoung and @ngoenyi, country curator to have close look at this users @alandchi and @ellla.

It is often we just think it is OK is user doing that, his posts received received Zero but when such users know that nobody is telling him off, then this attitude may spread to others.

Once a month all the communities who apply for the Steemit Support Program and would like to receive the support package of @steemcurator01 write their application posts and mention about fighting plagiarism.

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Are the communities really checking the suspicious posts and letting the users know that it is abuse?

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Once again, I have a question to @steemcurator01 the accounts SC03 to 06 have been given to countries and communities but meanwhile maybe it is a time to circulate them too to avoid such situation and give the opportunity to other communities to reward their users.

 

Hope you have some stuff for thinking and as always thank you for reading.

 

 

As always, faithfully yours we are Guardians of steem,

@stef1 and @myskye

 

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CURATION TRAIL @worldofxpilar

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