Yeah, I definitely love writing! I've been a journalist for 5 years now, so I've had lots of practice :)
As for the fakes, they often think they're doing themselves a favor by cheating, when in reality all they're really doing is destroying their trust with the wider public, along with the reputation they could've had.
Here I just got started with Steemit, and already I found someone stole one of my articles off of Strategic's publication on Medium and republished it here on Steemit. I'm doing a write up about it now, and have no problem shaming those who steal my work. We're going to take up the matter with Steemit in a formal response later this week as well. It makes me wonder how many more of my 700+ articles across the web people have stolen and attempted to monetize off of here?