RE: Follow Friday: A little nostalgia
Today I also found this story of someone putting up a bounty to get a MediaWiki extension that would copy pages to Steemit posts. The articles suggests they might want to plagiarise Wikipedia, but that would probably just get flagged. Maybe it's someone with their own wiki who wants to earn from the content, but would they be exploiting others if it was open to a community to edit?
Copying content is not plagiarism. Even editing copied content is not plagiarism. Only when you present copied content as original work (explicitly or implicitly) is it plagiarism.
Edit: The source article is also presenting false information. It's clear they don't understand Steem or Steemit:
That said, Steemit systematically deletes articles that have been copy-and-pasted, so the tool may be useless to plagiarists who are looking to make easy money.
Of course Wikipedia and other sites have a licence that allows copying, but it doesn't necessarily add value to Steemit. I may have mis-used terms. Steemit needs original content. I saw someone say the search engines may value it less as the same posts will appear across Steemit, Busy, Steempeak and others. Not sure if that's a problem.