cheetah bot rewards copy/paste‽

jgh (37)in #steemit • 7 years ago

Hi
I'm just wondering what the point of the @cheetah robot is?
It seems to simply reward copy/paste posts, something I would think steemit would want to reduce.

for example, this post is simply a copy/paste with no credit given from this site

@cheetah recognizes this and upvotes with the link to the original...

There are so many, but here are some other examples
here
here
here

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#writing #story #news

7 years ago in #steemit by jgh (37)

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sjennon (66) 7 years ago (edited)

@cheetah is a plagiarism hunter. There is a piece on it in the offical Steemit FAQ:

@cheetah is a bot developed by @anyx that scours Steemit for copy/pasted content. Cheetah will not downvote copied content, but it alerts other users to look into it further.

Abusive accounts (serial plagiarists or identity thieves, for example) will go on Cheetah’s blacklist. These users will get downvoted by @cheetah accounts when they post.

More information on the @cheetah bot can be found in this post:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cheetah/faq-about-cheetah

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jgh (37) 7 years ago

The point of my post was that it upvotes. Why‽

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sjennon (66) 7 years ago

According to https://steemit.com/steemit/@cheetah/faq-about-cheetah it seems to be 'a sign of good faith'.

Not sure how else to answer this. Maybe you can get a better answer in Steemchat Channel of @steemcleaners.

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jgh (37) 7 years ago

This is very odd to me, it's rewarding the very thing is is there to stop.
Thanks for your reply ;)

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sjennon (66) 7 years ago (edited)

Maybe it's to avoid putting off good users who might make an unintentional mistake. :)

No problem! Happy to help with my limited knowledge haha

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