There have been a number of articles here recently about the issue of 'paraphrasing'. That's too polite. It's farming and plagiarism if there is nothing added and no opinion given.
@badbitch and @steevc have been leading the way by outing and downvoting accounts that prefer to fraudulently abuse our platform and your individual trust with their cheating and theft.
But everyone should ask themselves? What are YOU doing to combat this blight? Bad actors on the site hurt YOU personally eventually because what happens is, the platform loses its reputation and will become seen as a place lacking in integrity and standards. Prices fall everyone loses...except the thieves who grab and run.
If no one else flags up abuse or downvotes it, then in my opinion, by default, you accept it. Your choice, but if you want a nice, profitable, interesting place to share your posts then, please be pro-active, even reactive but don't sit back and think it doesn't matter and that someone else will take care of it.
USE YOUR VOICE. USE YOUR DOWNVOTE
As a simple example of what I'm talking about .....
@webdeals pulls this stunt almost daily. Earns $70+ in rewards...here is his article...
https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@webdeals/why-does-the-uk-need-a-digital-pound-according-to-experts
Here is where he stole it from...
https://cointelegraph.com/news/expert-explains-why-britain-needs-a-digital-pound
https://cointelegraph.com/news/cardano-and-polkadot-extend-staked-capitalization-dominance
Now please, read both short posts and tell me if you think this is acceptable. If you think it is acceptable. Do nothing.
If you think he's just robbed the reward pool of which YOU have a share, then downvote him. It really is that easy.
As an added help, here is the link to the @hivewatchers reporting form...
https://hivewatchers.com/reports/new
YOUR platform. YOUR choice
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Lolll... I've had my share of experience with spammers and plagiarist across different platforms.
What I find hard to understand is why these are the ones that always gets the most reward while those that work and they still gets peanuts.
I just hope that we will be able to get rid of these scammers because whenever they start flowing into a platform, it causes heavy downfall.
I do understand that being in the trending page will put me in the magnifying lens but before accusing me of anything and calling me scammer or wishing me anything bad... perhaps have a read of what I wrote and perhaps you will see it is reworded in an easy to understand way. I am definitely not causing any heavy downfall of any platform and I have not cheated in any way.... reading... writing with my words and publishing to me was a genuine thing I could do. Learned in the bad way I cannot do it and I go for it. I wouldn't generalise too much myself with others that have taken wrong action against HIVE while I have always been promoting it and 1 mistake in 5 years shouldn't delete everything else.
Whatever the case may be, l must say that l've also seen spammers here and I've equally seen genuine content creators.
I'd know that spamming can never be stopped on any platform like this. People spam in micro-blogging platforms. Seeing the same here wouldn't be a surprise -not to me and not to any other person that spends time here.
I don't know you and l haven't been opportune to come across your work. I also don't plan to be drawn into reading the first of your contents in a situation like this.
So, if you are sure that you are free of charges laid upon you, all you have to do is to clear the doubt by doing what you've been doing. On the other hand, if you happen to be guilty as charged, then, l guess you already know what to do.
GoodLuck
that is a better comment. People abusing is a well known story... in some how I think I have done the same if everyone stands against me now. I have decided to stop writing news because I hate when people jusdge me in a wrong way and I have built a reputation I dont want to lose for a mistake. So better for me I stop here and thats it!
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I never really had the chance to dig his contents, I'll go see a couple, but so long, it seems everyone agrees that it's not acceptable...
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Thanks for notifying me of that case. I have sent some downvotes and notified some of those who vote for him. That sort of rip-off is totally unacceptable. He does claim to be 're-wording' Coin Telegraph articles, but I am not sure they would appreciate it and I don't think he adds enough to justify his rewards.
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There are only a very few, scant occasions when I will use a downvote, but plagiarism is one. Flagged.
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And I'll upvote your flag notification !
It's never acceptable. Cheers for alerting me to this one!
Heh...looks like another one of those "oldies" who is a benefactor of large auto whale votes who think they can do whatever they want.
Exactly. Think they're above everyone but I noticed Smooth and Acidyo having a little dig at him recently. It shouldn't just be left to people like them though, everyone should give their opinion. Apathy sucks.
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Marky used to hit him every now and and then.
I don't do much general reward disagreement, but spinning article is a no no for me.
you know that your comments are here and can be read by those "oldies"? Marky used to target me because I was writing posts in Italian and I was finishing in the Trending list with a language that isn't universal so from here the disagreement on my reward plus there was Ranchorelaxo that was voting me for some reason and this was clearly creating me massive problems. Before overthinking... just write me and I will explain you why I got downvoted. Smooth and Acidyo are downvoting me because the effort put in re-wording my posts isn't enough to get those rewards... therefore from here the disagreement with the rewards. As already said in a post... I am going to write a letter with all the evidences to my lawyer if this harassment will not finish @nathen007 ... this is the second advices that I give you. There is no way I think I am better than anyone else... so before accusing also of this I would think twice!!!
Said so... always in a polite way I wish you a good day!
Lol go ahead.
You might have just earned another permanent downvoter.
I don’t like sleazy types like you.
same as you! ;) let's play this game then!
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