You've given some good development suggestions. I like the idea of users selecting a flag to identify suspicious articles, as well as, performing their own research. We can definitely try to drive and encourage such behavior. Actually, I really like this idea.
Your idea about a decentralized model is very similar to my own. I don't like the centralized concept of moderation over the long run. It will bind me, or anyone else, indefinitely. Ideally, I envision, like you, a community that moderates itself.
Plagiarism tools aren't where I need them to be currently. They are great for scanning larger volumes of information. They are not great for verification of plagiarism. While I was moderating on POB this morning, smallseotools, kept flagging articles at 100% plagiarism. The problem was that it was pointing back to the same article written by the author. For example:
- Author-1 posts an article on the POB frontend
- Author-2 also uses the leofinance tag.
- Leofinance may rank higher than POB (probably does)
- if I'm checking a POB article for plagiarism, the leofinance article may be seen as the original source.
There's a lot of examples like that around. I'll use the tools, but I can't rely on them solely. So, I'll always check manually too.
Right, which is why we need to follow the links it provides. Users simply need to know what to look at how to verify it using the tools available. So posts reminding users their roll and how to maintain that role will be important.