Fresh update on Spam/Plagiarism-- Date- 02/06/2021

Here is a fresh update on spam/plagiarism.

We have detected a few accounts & their act of plagiarism during our investigation this week.

The window to spam/plagiarize is very narrow with the introduction of new thresholds(min rep 50 & min SP 150) in Crypto Academy, therefore the number of spam cases has significantly dropped in Crypto Academy.

However, we found that few users are posting non-relevant content(other than Homework Tasks) in Crypto Academy. Upon further investigation, we found that such users are also publishing plagiarized content.

Spam/Plagiarism | #cryptoacademy | #betterlife

Plagiarist	Post Link	Original Source	Remarks
@alejandroo	Link	Source	Plagiarism
	Link	Source	Plagiarism/Download PDF & See page no. 8 "Sharding"
	Link	Source	Plagiarism/Interestingly, @jerry0(the source) is also a repeat plagiarist
@nikhilpandey	Link	Source	Plagiarism/Translated the original content(in Spanish) into English to portray t as original content
@scruffyy22	Link	Source	Plagiarism
@dingdong21	Link	Source	Plagiarism
	Link	Source	Plagiarism
	Link	Source	Plagiarism
@arpitgupta08	Link		This user is repeatedly publishing old diary posts and after a few days deleting the old diary posts to escape detection.
	Link		-do-
	Link		-do-

What is Plagiarism?

• Plagiarism is an act of stealing the content of others and representing it as their own content and/or passing off content without acknowledgment of the real authorship.
• Close paraphrase, word-to-word transcription, etc.

We do cast our doubt on a few other accounts and the investigation is still on. We will report it here once the investigation is completed.

We believe that we have to be more careful when we curate the new accounts, we should diligently check whether the user has completed the Achievement-1 Task or not.

We will keep fighting this good fight. The coordinated community effort will defeat such insidious acts & weed out the plagiarized articles, in a timely manner, in a way to make sure that they don't leech reward pool.

Thank you.

Cc:-
@steemcurator01
@steemcurator02

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Cc:- @endingplagiarism, @kiwi-crypto, @starlord28, @endplagiarism02, @endplagiarism04