Beware of Crooked Steem Farmers

in steemit •  8 years ago 

I noticed someone posting a rapid-fire succession of blog posts today and each one was quite long. I was impressed for a minute but that quickly turned to suspicion when I realized that I'd have to be Superman to type that fast, let alone think up the content and edit it. Curious, I dropped a paragraph from one of these posts into Google and sure enough, it pointed toanother person's post from another website. Only a few words had been altered in an insufficient attempt to throw people off the scent. I repeated the test with other posts from the user and found the same sort of results... I'm wondering if there's a way to identify and filter this sort of activity without us all having to manually check content like this? Probably not a huge priority but it's something to consider when looking to upgrade the platform.


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  ·  8 years ago (edited)

I think that if they didn't override the limit of 5 minutes per post they could get organically in the flow without an overwelming spamming effect.
Regarding duplicate content, I noticed that the community can spot content that is not genuine and penalize it.

I've just been including the source in the comments so others will know it is plagiarized and vote accordingly.