Plagiarism is the act of using someone work and pretending that it's your own.
Many people has engage in this act just because the find it difficult to create their own work.
- turning in someone else's work as your own
- copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
- failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
- giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
- changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
- copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)
You can more information plagiarism on plagiarism.com, but some of the topic may not be apply here on steemit. Source.
Image Source : some steemian has been complain that cheetah comment on there post and the content is a original work but they have forgotten that they use image that does not belong to them, which is plagiarism.
Any image you are using that does not belong to you, it should be refer to the right source. If u get your image from Facebook, website, istagram or any other places, the image source should be put along with the image
Quote Source: if you creating you article and you want to put a quote which belong to someone, you have to put the source we're you saw the quote or the name of the the person that has the quote, attached to you content.
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Cheetah: Some steemians use people works on as there own here on steemit and immediately cheetah detect that she will place a comment on you post. Which will make people not to upvote your post, just because your are using another person work.
@Steemcleaner is were you can report any one for using your work or another person, using abusive words on comment.
You can report a abuse by putting the link on steemitcleaners-linkdrop on steemit chat or Discord
Effect of plagiarism on steemit
Reputation : your repution will drop if you continue to use people work and cheetah continue to comment on your post.
Trust: It will make the people that love lose interest. And it will make you lose some of your followers and following trust and it might take a long time to build them back.
Fag: plagiarism act could cause steemit account to be block if continue.
Avoid Plagiarism
Every steemians want to earn on there blog everyday, but it's not most you must post every day on your blog. A time comes when you don't have much to write on, you don't need to stress your self on that. When you have what to writethen go ahead and post on your blog.
while some because just to earn on for the day but don't know what to write on, they start using other people work, and which know as plagiarism and not allowed on here on steemit.
Steemit is media where you share you knowledge, lifestyles, your experience and some many things you are good at. So no need of stealing people work.
Steemit is fun
STEEM ON!!
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