We Need YOU - To Help Fight The WAR ON SPAM

in steemit •  8 years ago  (edited)

Some people are fucking up the STEEMIT platform for everyone else. They need to be stopped.

More copypasta than a multiverse of tagliatelle

Steemit has a serious copypasta problem and very few people are doing anything about it. In the last couple of hours alone, about 1 in 5 incoming posts were complete plagiarism. This rate is unsustainable.

If you work hard to create original content, you should stand up against the spammers and plagiarists who threaten your existence.

Todays top spammers are:

https://steemit.com/@steemit532
https://steemit.com/@rawveganliving
https://steemit.com/@monattalent
https://steemit.com/@kristina011891
https://steemit.com/@cyborg

How you can help:

Be brave, and be vigilant. If you suspect something is copypasta, google some of the "words in inverted commas, to get exact matches on Google".
Try REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH WITH TINEYE
If you are a dolphin, have the balls to flag and call out copypasta.
If you are a minnow and fearful of flag retaliation, you can report it to Steemit Abuse here

Most importantly:

Upvote and support those accounts who are doing the most to fight spam and plagiarism:

@steemcleaners

@siren
@adm
@cheetah
@anyx
@brunopro
@patrice
@lukestokes
@samupaha

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You will notice some idiots are flagging this post as revenge because I flagged their plagiarism..

Please visit them and scrutinize their content.

Who made you the Steemit police?? Your an exact reason why the flag system is the downfall of Steemit and why you will see a drop in stock until they correct this. People get tired of you. If this site is a success, they can hire people to delete plagiarism and dump the flag system. If they don't correct this, then a few months from now, YOU will be sitting in front of your computer while 10 people are logged on here waiting to screen every post and flag flag flag but all you will hear is crickets.

"Who made you the Steemit police?"
All users can be contributors, commenters, or "steemit police". It's everyones prerogative.

"Your an exact reason why the flag system is the downfall of Steemit"
The flag system is not the downfall of Steemit. If Steemit fails, it will most likely be because of boring content like yours, as well as spam and plagiarism. Aside from that, the reason you got so many flags from so many different users, from what I can see, is because you were malicious in your comments and flagging.

Thanks @ezrathecat for commenting on this page and drawing attention to yourself. You have invited extra scrutiny on your own page, so, good luck with that.

You talk like you are a dictator with all this power and a big following! bahaha!!! You really got me now didn't you siren?!? Foolish pride. Again, you are the reason this site will fail unless flags are corrected. Without the flag system, you are nothing but lame.

Thanks for this explanation, and links. I agree, Steemit will become a cesspool if it gets overrun with posts plagiarising others work. I want to see Steemit become the best it possibly can be, so will keep all this in mind as I read through people's posts.

Each malicious flag I receive is like a badge of honour.

yeah u must be proud how you go around flagging people for no reason then stalk them and flagg every post they make. so productive of you. the flagging system is making a lot of people leave. you are the cancer of this site.

the whole point is to add blocks to the chain. even if its a post with one single letter on it, value is added to the chain. as you flagg people they will leave like you have done to me for posting news videos.

I, like all the others leaving will tell people about the experience that they had and the amount of new people joining dropps.

the point of steemit is to grow the block chain not post shit people like. people liking quality stuff is only as an incentive for people to write quality work.

im sure you can tell how quality has nothing to do with getting upvotes now. if it did u wouldn't see the bullshit on the trending bar like there is. they are only growing with up votes because people know that this person posts crap daily but because every post they have has made 5k+ and they have 300 followers. if you can upvote early u get paid out for it. nothing to do with quality.

but that has nothing to do with the block chain and growing it. adding blocks to the chain is = to work. that is why it equates to currency. if people aren't growing the chain, no matter how great the quality is the value of steemit currency will drop. the more people posting shit the faster it grows and the more value one SBD has.

so maby you should ask yourself if you would rather have a blockchain based site where all the perceived value drops to nothing but the content is good or would you rather have a blockchain based site where the value the currency used is rising fast with all the same good content of the other option but also adding the crap posts or people just posting links or anything and everything elese?

I hope you realize how flagging people does no good for anyone. not the prson your flagging or you. it hurts the block chain in a whole.

maby you should try posting something instead of spending your days flagging people and leaving comments about how they did this or that. I would love to see you try to do something productive. lol

I will continuing flagging everything you say till you remove my flags or I get board of flagging you then quit.

you, not anyone elese just made another person (me) quit adding to your block chain. I will be telling everyone I know about this experience , im sure a couple people will avoid this site because of that.

hope u realize you only get flagged by people you got to quit steemit. if that is a badge of honour to you then you got problems yo.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

You made 75 crappy copypasta posts in 24 hours.
I, along with several others, flagged you for this reason.
Steemit is not about duplicating the whole internet. It is about high quality new content. It's your choice to leave the platform. Nobody will miss a spammer, "yo".

Agreed - I saw you catch someone within moments of them posting. I think there are a portion of users that just don't know better and should be taught that it won't fly here and then there are the true spammers.

I've also seen plenty of posting under theoretical 'fair use' laws for images. Steemit is a commercial platform - you ought to get written permission to use images that are not in the public domain. For more information: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

That guy was entertaining for a time.
And then he comes back and you're just like,
"Why, again, did I interact with him?"
I hate seeing his shit writing.
Awful, awful grammar, and a complete insistence on using blocks of text.
What a nightmare.

I'm sorry I missed this earlier.

Dude, you suck. People here are sharing the best of internet and you have only one lousy post. Who are you to judge? There is a fine line between plagiarism and sharing good content. If you just go around and flag people don't expect a good attitude from others. Maybe you should try to contribute with something positive or get a real life.

"There is a fine line between plagiarism and sharing good content"
You think pasting a whole article from indiewire, like you did, is "sharing good content". Hilarious seeing you try to take the moral high ground.
"Maybe you should try to contribute with something positive "
Maybe you should..

https://goo.gl/CFveOF , Did you look at this post?

You posted that I spammed or plagiarized my own original work. make sure you know what you're talking about first please. Then I accidentally up-voted the comment! hahaa... Well it's my recipe, my photography and my blog post, so you can't really get more original than that!

Before all I want you to know that I agree with what you raise. My first article has a expicacion and you have given at the time. As I write only speak Spanish and Spanish, I have to go down the information and translate the information and translate it back into English to upload hey there my mistake in raising the original publisher. so I vovi up the second material that is I should have compartirdo first. Far this in my mock community, I try not attempt to morality and decency. For me it was a shameful fact what has happened .. Beyond the penalty that have suffered from falling from level 40 to level 25 with what it takes to win a level. That you know of what I speak. Again, I reiterate that I am kept in accordance what is asking and not take it personal capacity. New mind steemit community was not burlame intention, and I hope hacepten understand my mistake and my apology.