I think the whitepaper addressed the issue pretty well. I like the robot that finds plagiarists posts and alerts the readers of the original source without penalizing the author. I think this is clever and works pretty well. I simply don't vote for posts which have been plagiarized without citing the original source. Perhaps we can make this clear
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Can someone please rename that bot, it really has such a negative connotation. I see people who have blogs of their own and so are trying Steemit out and get visually seen as a 'cheater' by a robot because they are re-sharing their old content maybe on Steemit, and the only way they can change it is to go to an off blockchain chat to appease the robots owner to get on a whitelist maybe.
With the ton of both visual and audio artists out there, it really is only penalizing new users who do written content. It seems than rather than have a bot possibly chase off new users, we can rely on people downvoting properly, I noticed this worked well with a recent DTube situation https://steemit.com/dtube/@shla-rafia/chainflix-killed-by-hollywood-for-uploading-movies-to-dtube
Sometimes the bot gets things wrong and then you have situations like this https://steemit.com/steemit/@elenasteem/please-remove-me-from-the-blacklist where I wonder when this happens, does the bot compensate the users it may wrongly blacklist?
How about the bot instead be turned onto all the bot and spam commenting, that would be awesome.
I think people need to read, or re-read the FAQ Page to Cheetah bot. Cheetah bot does not flag,(down vote) it upvotes. Real people do the cleaning/down voting.
Yeah, it just leaves a bad connotation in users and even worse, non-Steemit users minds by being named "cheetah". But it or real people behind the handle do downvotes with it as you can see here https://steemd.com/@cheetah
I have seen the downvotes not well earned, in fact it seems to be going on right now if you would have checked one of the links I put in a comment. Also, "so what" is directly because someone claimed the bot does not downvote. I respect your opinions on the matter but I do not agree with them, especially with a bunch of conjecture that we do not have the ability to create analytics to look at, specifically users not joining Steemit based on broken operations coming from a robot that is supposedly from a site based on actual users votes being the thing that makes the difference.
Don't get me wrong. I am not trying to penalize anyone. I said I like the bot I didn't say I didn't like the author. I like the content but I like it even more when I know where the source was copied from. the bot gives us a URL where we can see the content verbatim sometimes. Then decide if it was appropriate. Then I make up my mind to vote or not vote.
Then it should be called "Helpful Bot" or something with a positive feel if it is being helpful than called "cheetah" putting the word cheater in our mind and showing a duplicate link, no matter how cute the cat picture is.
I see the bot penalizing this user https://steemit.com/drawing/@elenasteem/a-small-xenomorph-resumes multiple times currently, which if it is doing it because the person is not a human or plagiarizing, then that should be in the comments. Otherwise I have seen this user sharing genuine content and been pinged a lot by the bot. So in this case right now the bot has determined for us that this user is on a blacklist, it does not identify to the rest of us users why this is the case, and then for the user in question, they are now required to go into an off-blockchain chat to appease a robot or an unknown person to them behind it. I do not claim to have the answers on a better way to know this isn't the right way.