Users Posting "Retranslated" Version of Somebody Else's Content As Their Original

in steemit-content •  8 years ago 

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It seems that there is a new trend among some users trying to cheat steemit.com bots that track for new content posted on the website that is not original, but copied from someplace else on the internet and make profit from it.

The new "cheat tactics" apparently includes passing the original content through an automated translation service that changes the content a bit, replacing some words with close alternatives and making the content a bit different from the original and a bit harder to understand as well.

It seems to be something like going through Google translate (or other service) from English to some other language and then running back a translation to English and then just posting the content posing it as your own not that well written as if you are not a native English speaker.

Of course if you have read the original you can quickly see the similarities without going for a word by word comparison it is clear that it is a try to cheat the system and profit from it by making as little effort as possible.

We simply need to get rid of this "bad content" from steemit.com and new users should learn that this is not the right way of doing things here and that trying to cheat will not result in them getting rich without effort!

Here are two actual examples of the above "trick":

Article on steemit.com: AMD RADEON RX 480 may not be suitable for mining
And the original article: AMD Radeon RX 480 May Not be That Great for Mining

Article on steemit.com: Overclocking NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080 and the computing power of graphics cards in Mining
And the original article: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Overclocking and Mining Hashrate

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