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RE: On ethics in decentralized systems
I upvoted you because it appears your account name matches the original content posted here:
https://blog.coinfund.io/on-ethics-in-decentralized-systems-213ad705b462#.brvx792fq
We have an ethical issue on Steem where people plagiarize content of others to get rewards. If you want to avoid getting flagged and downvoted it is critical to give proper attribution or at the very least link to other places you have posted the full content and indicate that you are the author.
Hey Dan, thanks. I am in fact the original author. I will make the changes!
Oh! Happy to see you here Jake! Can you see a potential of this thing looking on your balance for this post?
I am not clear what these "$" denominations mean, what they're actually worth, or how they transfer into user accounts. From a psychological perspective for users of the platform, I think they are compelling.
surely it could be possible to develop a component/app to search the web for duplicate content, determine if the author is the same, and penalize in the event of plagiarism, no?
I'm not a coder, so wouldn't know how to execute the idea - though I imagine it'd surely be possible to have a competent team write an app to auto-execute any time someone posted that could run a search and verify whether content was plagiarised or not... it might not be 100% automatable, though surely to the degree that if duplicate work was found, a notice could be sent to the poster's account with request for verification they are in fact the author, requiring action to verify - which could then update the steemit system database of their accounts on other sites which they might be posting duplicate content, to prevent further alarms...