Tale of an Unsuccessful Plagiarist on Steemit.

Hello Steemians

Background

Recently I made a post on alternative platforms to steemit.com and suffice to say that post was rather well received. I have always strived to contribute towards this platform for the betterment of community.

For a reader, the post might seem like a 4-5 minutes read but it actually takes 3-4 days to thoroughly research on a topic and then it takes another 4-5 hours to create that post so that my worthy fellow steemians can make full use of that information without having to doubt the credibility of the content.

Furthermore, my followers know me all too well that i always engage with them in the comment section and duly reward anyone who even make 0.01% effort to read the post and then give his/her insight on the subject.

The post has currently received 188$ worth of 84 upvotes, 326 views and 63 comments (including my own replies to various comments).

Enters The Abuser / Plagiarist

I have always been more than forthcoming to help / guide people in the right direction even if it means them using my content (after taking due permission of course).

However Mr Hive account@yanisbreakers decided to take another course of action, which was to translate my post in another language without asking permission.

Here is the link to his post.

Intentional Plagiarism by Hive account@yanisbreakers

What concerns me the most that the user did not copy my content in a fit of laziness or innocence. Had he done that, i would have told him not to repeat this in future and would have introduced him to ethics of blogging and that could have been the end of it...

But his plagiarism did not reek of innocence at all. He intentionally copied the content without asking permission and totally striked out my name from the entire content such as to make it look like his own.

And this is criminal..

Let me share you a screenshot comparison to support my accusation against Mr. Hive account@yanisbreakers

Here is a screenshot that i used in my post as a visual aid to introduce the GUI of busy.org

Pay close attention to the highlighted area. This was a screenshot of my blog that i took to demonstrate the GUI of busy.org.

Mr. Hive account@yanisbreakers used the same screenshot as mine but went to great lengths to omit my name from it. Take a look here at the same screenshot he edited :-

Did ya’ll see that? He removed the entire block and entered his own text that was the title of my immigrant crisis post (and that too with wrong spellings of analysis).

Credits

All thanks to Hive account@ilyastarar for notifying me of this abuse since Hive account@yanisbreakers forgot that when he copied my content, Hive account@ilyastarar would also get a notification of it because he was mentioned in the post.

Confrontation

After i was notified of this, I still kept my wits about me. I only flagged Hive account@yanisbreakers’ plagiarised post and scolded him in the comment section of his own post that he should not have done that.

I was actually expecting an explanation to all this and look at the reply the guy gave me..

Brilliant... right? All he managed to do was write “sorry my friend” and inserted cheeky smiles and thought this would all go away..

This is a clear violation of blogging ethics. I believe that cheeta bot did not pay him a visit because his post was in a different language.

Hence, i invite all the people, Hive account@good-karma, Hive account@ekitcho, Hive account@vortac, Hive account@ilyastarar, Hive account@rycharde, Hive account@nairadaddy and everyone who upvoted me on my post to kindly pay this dude a visit and flag his post into the ground. This is a crime and since you all supported my content, his actions also violated the integrity of your worthy upvotes.

If we let incidents like these slide by, steemit will become a mad house infested with leechers and content copiers.

Conclusion

Hive account@yanisbreakers went through a lot of pain to make his copied content look original. Ironically, all he actually needed to do was to make a lousy comment on my post asking my permission to make a translation of my post with due credits to me being the original content creater and i would have upvoted his translation post and would have resteemed it as well.

I hope that Hive account@yanisbreakers will learn a valuable lesson here. Plagiarism is never a healthy practice and sooner or later, you will be picked up by the community and be thrown out for this horrendous habit.

Best regards
JBN

thumbnail image designed from free canva tool. Rest of the images are screenshot taken from my own device

Kindly consider to offer your valubale comments on matter and i would request everyone to resteem this so that others can benefit from this. Who knows your one resteem might stop a potential plagiarist from comitting this crime..