How can we screen articles for potential fruad?
Simply Copy a part of the article and paste it in Google Search. Or other good method is to use some tools like https://www.duplichecker.com/, https://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/ etc specifically designed to check plagiarism.
If anyone comes across something suspicious content from a user feel free to give a plagiarism check and if found guilty, leave a Original Source of Article in the comment tagging @scholaris.pob and other Curators who had Upvoted the Post. Sometimes it's unintentional or by mistake, even if you forget giving proper citations or reference that would considered plagiarism, so if you make a mistake once don't shy and admit what you did wrong, nothing wrong in accepting the mistake and make sure never to commit the same mistake again. But mostly the fraud users once caught they simply run away and later come back with new account, that's really annoying and bad influence on community. It really needs a great community effort to work together to fight plagiarism and fraud in the community.
@vikbuddy hope am free to actually say what am about to say,but let me just say it as a means of sharing experience too in the community,I remember I once that mistakes of plagiarism when I newly joined and I think their was a time to I met you talking to the hivewatchers too back then and today now,it is a bye gone
Let me say it is not a bad thing when people makes mistakes,some does it due to ignorance at first of lack of good guide in the community,but it will be of good attitude to have stand and fight back ,by accepting such mistakes just as we did then and move on, but most comes back with new account.
#Plagiarismchecker is the easiest means that anyone that think of right now,but won't mind if we can still see a whale that can actually introduce another means of getting any supiscious fraudulent content at first sight.
Yeh, you are right. You are quite lucky to figure that out sooner and apply for appeal its the best and desired thing to do. Unfortunately, I realised that a bit late and that put me into Permanent Blacklist, no appeals for me. I don't think anything can be done now, I just have to go on. We all make mistakes and sometimes it's teaches us valuable life lessons. I am glad I got mine and I had a vision of investing into POB and Hive. The best part about being a investor, it will make you more determined and committed to community and brings quality and honesty in work. Invest in POB and POB will invest in You. 😊👍. !PIZZA
Definitely mate and sincerely stand with you on this and the experience was just the best ever,cause I sincerely learn alot about that,I still wish we can still go out there and take it upon ourselves to write about the effect of plagiarism again.
Even though lot of content has a been done as regards this,but I think their is still need to keep on checkmating some of the new users who don't have access to go through the guide when they newly joined so as to not fall vitcim .
Aside that I want to believe that we all know that plagiarism doesn't only comes with post or content as we do call it ,but in everything like comment too,have seen a users who copied another person content and still post back on that same content as comment.which is totally wrong.
The truth is that one need to realised where he fall down or failed so that one can rise up again. Ever since i know the only thing that the community hate so much is plagiarism i tried as much as possible to ensure all what i will be posting are something o created myself. And this has been helping me to be a bit better when it comes to writing.
I love your courage and how you do not allow the black list issue to affect your contribution to the community generally i think you are a strong person
Sincerely this act is almost the order of the day and it is of no help to such user,I have a mindset that making mistakes is one thing that is part of life,but running away from it, is a means of showing that such person is a born failure,that needs to do with the issue of those that run away and come with another account.
Good one as regards the plagiarism checker you talked about and honestly I sincerely think that is the best possible way to actually bring and end to such act and I will say I think that is the easiest way for now ,apart from the fact that some of this users who are new at times will just copy and paste directly and you will even know self mere seeing it without any plagiarism checker
I can't assume that someone has made an error due to a misunderstanding unless they respond back. For this reason, I will DV first and remove the DV IF, and only IF, they respond to my comment. There are entirely too many cases to sift through. It's impossible for me to tell between fraud is caused by misunderstanding or because of ignorance. I treat ignorance quite differently.
This is exactly my point though only one person can not do it alone but they have to be some people on ground who will be doing the check and balance. If not we will end up not doing anything regarding plagiarism.
Oh. I never know it is easier to check a content that is plagiarised this way. I only know how to search out picture using google lens.
But the truth is that how many article do you want to search using google?
What if some read a content and phrase it using his own words how then can someone know that it is truly not a plagiarised content?
How much time do you think one has to be doing all these? There should be controls in place to check and balance things being posted here
It's convenient. It isn't easy. Using a plagiarism checker is only a first step. If someone paraphrases instead of copying and pasting, then you look for whether or not they are properly citing the information.
The community will NOT go against you if you decide to downvote a post, state your reasoning, and then that author fails to respond. I know I'll support your decision especially if the author never replies back to you.
Thanks for your helpful responds, this is what i was hoping to get.
I understand is a lot of time checking the originality of an article but is still something we all have a role to play if you're ever going to have a worthy platform.
You indeed said my mind with regard to the topic. Technology have made a lot of things quite easy with just a click of the button, one can find any information over the web. Google us one of those tools that can be used to detect original or none original content.
Simple mate and if I can get you right ,you need the application for that, which is very simple,you can get that on playstore or Apple App.
Get a plagiarism checker and use that to check the originality of any content and you can even use it to check out your own work to derives satisfaction before posting too,even their are Application's that helps for grammatical error too.
But for now all we need is to download the Application and even put it on automatic check,once you click on a content to read,it will examine the content and show you it originality .
#Plagiarismchecker
Waoo. I like the sound of that.
Your approach is sound for the first level of screening. There are others that I'm learning now that are much more complicated. It certainly appears unintentional at times. Admitting to the error speaks volumes and minimizes the pain on both the author and the moderator. For instance, when one particular user immediately admitted the mistake, the focus of my ire was only that one article they faulted on. If the person doesn't respond, or denies the evidence presented, then I start scanning all their articles in a seven-day period.
There are many situations where your content can coincidentally resemble that of another content in somewhere different and it will look as if it is plaglarise.
For example
Jesus is Lord
This statement Jesus is Lord has already existed and I'm not the first person to write or create a contents of the word Jesus is Lord.
So if I use the plaglarism checker of that content then it will bring everywhere this content Jesus is Lord has ever existed and that does not really mean one plaglarise or copied the content from one place.
This situation can happen many times when one is creating a sport content or a general news and most especially the headlines of the content you want to create are mostly or likely being so similar to many others who have created it.
So can there be way to differentiate that?
@vikbuddy and @hannahhive:
Common phrases are a different matter entirely. If the plagiarism check flags common phrases, then there's no action you should take against the user. However, if the user is pasting complete sentences from another source, then they are obligated to cite the source of their material.
Regarding sports content or anything else for that matter, again, it's the responsibility of the author to make sure the audience is aware that the information presented is not their own.
Yeah that's true and very common. But that's not a big worry because it can be clearly seen once found the source of articles. Also important is to catch the once who simply copy full articles or paragraphs and simply paste it.