What gets me is the boring topics they usually pick to plagiarize. Just doing a quick Google search for the phrase
useful cranberry jelly
returns 62.800,000 results.
I've been at a loss to understand why someone would feel the world needs yet another source for what surely is duplicated on many tens of millions of sources elsewhere.
I saw this a lot in self publishing. It boggles my mind, even if someone was to just write from memory. But to take it one step further and just steal it to pass as ones own.
People have such low self image they not only don't feel that they are worthy of standing as themselves before others, but they don't even care about the false image they put in front of us. Like a resignation they are less than.
I always assume when I see a list or health/relationship article that it has been stolen from someone else. I'm usually not interested so probably would have moved on anyway with that one piece, but its in my mind now the person is probably a thief.
When you know the modus operandi, you know which words to use, plagiarism can be detected quickly. The truth is that it bores me to see the amount of recipes that are published, many cut the images so that the environment is not noticed, many do not even appear in the photos, others are more blatant that they do not even care. The most curious thing is that the author only answered me that he added the source, as if that would minimize the situation, he never proved that he was the owner of the other articles.
"I cited the source"
"I didn't know it was wrong to do it on this platform"
"I used information that my friend gave me - i thought it was his."
"I'm honest and I've never been accused of plagiarism before."
"Its not like ALL my posts are plagiarized."
I've heard these and so many more. It never ceases to amaze me that if they spent the same amount of time CREATING an original post, as they spent the time DEFENDING the plagiarism - we wouldn't even be there discussing it!
If they only channeled their energies into a more profitable use of everyone's time! I agree with @vickyguevara . They waste EVERYONE'S time, and time is very expensive to waste!
On the platform that I was on in 2020 (it has been destroyed by spammers and scammers - so I won't even bother mentioning it since it no longer exists...) the reason why they plagiarized general topics is because it didn't matter in the least.
It was only a placeholder for their clan to come and mass upvote.
then their clan would drop meaningless comments like "nice post", "good info", "I learned a lot"
and literally every one of those comments would get 40 upvotes.
They would reach new levels - and grow en masse.
When we would downvote the posts, and the comments - they would run to the "authorities" and cry foul. What happened? We got punished. (and we only had 1 downvote per person. Nothing was unbalanced - it was a fair system to maintain the integrity of the platform)
And what happened? well - months later the entire platform was overrun.
To the spammers and scammers - it has nothing to do with integrity, quality, or the longevity of the platform. It was only a matter of earning their weekly wage - and at the end of the week, they absolutely cashed out and kept the value of the token low (while others held for the entire year - and were left with nothing in the end)
The thing that makes me intrigued with Blurt's system - is that every operation has a cost. So that is somewhat of a deterrent. UNLESS, the "gangs" are willing to invest enough to outweigh that, and THEN grow like a cancer.
I guess time will tell??
Unlike the parent and sister chain, this isn't a problem as much. Let me explain why.
Our resident math genius has designed the reward pool in such a way so that one can't use the ludicrous saying of
My pull doesn't affect your pull, and the pool grows and shrinks based on how much is powered up. If you wish to know more about the way it is designed, I'm sure rycharde who designed it will be happy to explain it more to you.
So then that leaves an observation of mine from years ago.
Either the math is good and can actually accommodate for the pull promised, or there is a bait and switch taking place. Everyone always hated on haejin and Rancho for their pull, but they were only exercising their promised reward mechanism as promised by the math. It's only possible due to investing and staking. So many overlook the benefits to the entire community of those who actually invest and then lock it up in stake. Without those doing this, there is no monetary value beyond what pump and dump exchange people maneuver in their continual quest to leave a trail of bag holders behind them.
Because of the way Blurt is designed, the only negative impact that those who invest heavily to use as an extraction tool are having is their flooding of the markets with the rewards they extract, as promised to them.
I defend their right to post absolute drivel to upvote themselves 100% as promised with their investment. As mentioned, their pull doesn't take from mine.
I believe instead as a community that the focus should instead be on asking
Why is the demand not keeping up with the supply? If we create more access points of interest to make folks want to be a part of this, to make them want to invest then it shouldn't matter how much the extraction investors extract because the demand is greater than anything they can produce. :)
Rycharde?!?!?!?!?!
hahahahahah I had NO idea that he was part of the design here!!!!!!!!!!!
I knew him briefly on Steem, and we used to talk in DM on discord because his mind was BRILLIANT and I was FASCINATED with it!!!!!!! math genius??? I think that is an underestimate hahahahahahaha
Wow... ok - well, just by dropping his name, you've given me some insight into how this system has more integrity!!!
and come to think of it - I'm going to have to find him in DM and ask him to take a look at DreemPort and see where he sees some flaws in how we are designed!!! I am wondering if he would suggest what another old friend suggested hmmmm and now that I know that he helped design this??? lol I bet he would
Just so you know - I've mentioned my project several times- and I hope you don't think I'm pushing it on you. hahahaa I'm not. It's just always on my mind how to make it better. And ALSO just so you know - the beautiful thing about DreemPort (and one of the things I'm MOST proud of) is that it doesn't pull people from their platforms of choice. It actually brings people together briefly and then sends them BACK to their platforms, WITH a few more eyes on their content each day, and gives them a taste of OTHER platforms in a non-aggressive/ very supportive way. (hence... the PORT part of our name) so - please don't think I'm coming to Blurt to steal people... hahaha
on the contrary... I think you'll see more people get exposed to Blurt - now that we are here :)
hmmmm i'm super excited to go find rycharde now hahahaha - this is on my to-do list this week!!!!!
and.. i'm bringing several people to this comment so we can talk about it in our next meeting!!!
@shadowspub @bluefinstudios @penderis @kemmyb @jacoalberts @mcyusuf @makeitrain4ever @samsmith1971
Thanks so much for all that info!!! I'm digesting it!!!
To-do list?
Ehhhh... Seems like someone is done with Thanksgiving Celebration 😂.
Okiiii... Lemme grab a bite of the post and catch the full gist before gracing the Comment section.
Biyeeeeeeeeeee
hahahahaThanksgiving is TOMORROW.
If I'm able to still push on all things NOW... wait til AFTER Thanksgiving LOLOLOL
And thank you for bringing me here. I'm busy exploring the new terrain and I love it!
Totally agree with you, you summarize a lot of why it is harmful all this that we can observe in blurt and sister chains.
hmmm I can't see my direct parent comment here. It keeps telling me that the comment doesn't exist hahaha
ahhh ok - i can see the comments now hahahaa
I just had to refresh the page. and yes - but hopefully what practicalthought shared is why this ISN'T going to be taken advantage of here???
i really hope so! because all platforms deserve to thrive!! :)