Howdy @jaguar.force,

Glad to see you are now contributing to Utopian Anti-Abuse and to see how your approach has evolved. These art rephrasers can be quite crafty and sly and it's good that you are developing some advanced techniques to combat. I've seen this sort of thing not only on Steem but Minds.com. Thankfully on Steem the community is more averse to that sort of thing. I observed an author on Minds today use art that I was able to easily reverse image search, was about to comment, but noticed someone else did. Long story short, the author used a #myart tag and the person was asking if it was indeed their art pasting a screencap of the reverse image search.

The "artist" claimed that what they did was actually created a repaint of the image but it looked almost identical. For all we know, it could have been a Photoshop filter to make it appear as though they painted it. This was enough to satisfy the inquirer but, now that I think about it, that's suspect. All things considered, I am glad you are setting a precedent that this sort of thing is not to be accepted. If we tolerate it like that user did on Minds, I fear the floodgates will be opened and we will see a lot more art rephrasing which furthermore could open the door for potential legal action. I don't like to think about what that could mean for the blockchain so would prefer that Pandora's box stay closed. Keep it up!

If I may make one recommendation concerning this contribution which had been given to me when I first started:

• Make use of Hemingway or similar app to help you make more succinct sentences so they are easier on the reader.

I had a bad habit of verbosity when I started so now I try to plug it into Hemingway to show me the sentences that should be adjusted. It is a helpful tool and good step to really polish your post. Our community manager is pretty big about it.

On an unrelated note, think we may want to talk to the SFR admins about adding an "art rephrasing" category of abuse as it is pretty much a category of its own. It does appear to require much more effort that your run-of-the-mill image plagiarism.

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