https://steemit.com/life/@knozaki2015/consciousness-and-matter-our-reality-is-a-mass-hallucination-featuring-njall-as-author
This post gives me this vibe. Also the user that posted this regularly brings in large payouts. He does host other authors on his blog but I get the feeling that something dodgy is going on.
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I know what you mean. Reading that is a challenge. Though in that particular case, I think it's likely original work by an author who is not a native speaker. The comments that the author left in response to readers would seem to support that.
However, I'm pretty suspicious of several of the people who publish a high volume of "featured author" posts. Some of them have been caught blatantly plagiarizing and featuring fraudulent accounts... A few of them are located in South Africa, and almost always feature people with limited English skills. They're obviously bootstrapping their friends in a lot of cases. But as we see here, "poor English" can also just mask plagiarism.
Hello,
in this particular case, I can confirm that the author has first written it in Russian, than it has been translated by him, and a translator has proof read the text.
I think for a native it might feel spunned, but i got the first edition, which was unreadable in English ;)
and than we had two proof reading sessions until I accepted the text.
Hope this helps !
Thanks for providing more detail. :)
Yes, the first text was a true njall ;) than he translated it with a translator (like google translate) and his own work, and at the end it was proof read by a translator, who is paid in SBD. (there is a real economy on Steemit now)
I know at least two translators , one helping the russian community, and Ines-f doing all the translation for the german community.
A lot of Russian posts that 'were seen by translator' are sometimes shown to me "the translator", and all I can do is facepalm. But at least I fix some of that, if the post is editable. At least people learn that in a lot of cases "We asked a friend who is good at English" just doesn't cut it. At some point I am sure there will be a translation service set up, since as of last three days I am absolutely swamped by requests to translate stuff, so much that I am kinda drained to write up my own stuff. But at least translations pay out more than my own posts. :-D It also gives me time to work on them a bit better, or, perhaps, I am just telling myself that.
And yeah, just by looking at the text I can hear the Russian version. Very peculiar sentence structure.
@knozaki2015 is German, I believe, and likely helps other German writers. But, you never can tell anymore. Once the doubt is in our minds, everything can look like abuse and fraud. That's why transparency and honesty is important when money is involved.
or, you know, don't upvote :)
ask a question in the comments, see if it's a REAL PERSON. A real person will defend his article and be willing to discuss. A spinner will bullshit you.
Or they just don't respond or make excuses, wait until the payout comes, and quickly cash out their big sums from whale votes. It's not like that doesn't happen all the time.
it can happen once. if it happens twice, is on us as a community!