RE: #original-content - My story on steemit, Bots and Community
Hi,
Just because cheetah found different source, it does not meant that your post wasn't plagiarism. Probably the same article was posted (plagiarised) on other websites despite the one that your bot copied it from.
cheetah only has to find one source (doesn't have to provide all sources) of copied content. She is 99.5% accurate when finds something (errors happen, about 1 in 1000).
I am not sure what kind of assumption you had before joining Steemit but nowhere I've found around the web where it says that Steemit pays you for posting someone else's work.
It is quite peculiar assumption that you can just get a buck for doing nothing except spending effortless few minutes to copy and paste someone else's work.
Steemit is not Facebook. You get paid for content here. Own, original content, not for using someone esles's work to profit from their content without their consent.
I wasn't effortlessly copying content. I had created software specifically to crawl crypto websites to find worthy news to share. Regardless of it, the moment Steemit indexes content, regardless of the source, it will always be good for Steemit. More content of value == better image on search engines.
You also seem to be missing the point of plagiorism, in every post I had except the first few for being tests I explicitly pointed that the posts were the work of a bot and that I was not the author or affiliated with the author, and I even gave the links to the original content. That's not plagiorism, that's sharing. Regardless of whatever Steemit's definition is, the moment Steemit is on the web it answers to terms used on the web.
In short:
plagiorism == I have created this content (when in reality it was copied from somewhere else)
sharing == I have not created this content, here is the link to the author, I am merely sharing.
It is called PLAGIARISM.
If you want to share content, you can go to Facebook or Twitter.
You get PAID (P A I D) for content on Steemit. It is not Facebook or Twitter.
If you think that it is alright to just spam Steemit with bot created plagiarism or copypasta, then you got all things the other way around.
Such spam adds zero value to Steemit. As already explained above.
Goodbye
I will also add this: all websites my bot posted from had sharing options that linked back to their website the same way, so all of them clearly have no problem having their work being linked. In case you don't know, the more links you have pointing to your content the better reputation you will have on search engines. That's why most news websites give you buttons to share their content, so the idea that my bot was "profiting from using someone else's work without their consent" is completely wrong.