Weekly public Steemit copycat blacklist report (2018-08-13)

This is my weekly report of my private initiative against semi-professional Steemit copycats.

Here’s a summary of the plagiarized posts I’ve found and the users currently on my public blacklist:

If the number of active users is a measurement of success of my mission, then it is without a doubt highly successful.

With many users stopping their plagiarizing activities, I can move on to new potential copycats. In the future, I really want to concentrate on taking down entire networks of copycats, not just individual users. I will also actively hunt down other abusive behavior such as bid bot abuse and comment spam once a user is on my blacklist. There should be no alternative to honest, hard-working behavior if one wants to be part of the Steemit community!

Edit: Thank you to everyone who kindly upvoted this post, and for leaving your encouraging comments! A big thank you in general for the great support by the awesome members of the steemflagrewards team!

(I decided not to reply “Thank you” to every single commenter because that would be comment spam, wouldn’t it) 😉😉

This initiative is targeted against networks of semi-professional Steemit copycats who do not contribute their own work, but copy the existing work of others with the sole intention that, by publishing it here on Steemit, they make profits with it, with minimal investment in time and resources of their own.

Copy/pasting content on Steemit is harmful. It unfairly disadvantages original content creators for reward payouts, contributes to Steem currency devaluation by reward inflation, damages the public image of the platform, and diminishes the visibility of all of its content in search engines.

Further information:

• My public Steemit copycat blacklist
• More about my mission
• How I handle Steemit copycats
• Megalosaurus Steemit original content rules violations