It has become customary when joining a new community, to undergo a verification process. To sign up and say "here I am, I agree to the terms of this community".
World of Football is no different. There's a membership validation (which highlights "UNDERSTANDING CONTENT ABUSE/PLAGIARISM" as one of its main headings), a post on how to obtain royalty free images and also an announcement of what the disciplinary actions are.
The community is very clear on its plagiarism stance. And within the disciplinary actions, it's clearly stated:
Effective immediately, any user found guilty of plagiarism or content abuse will be banned from this community and place on the "muted" status, after which they can no longer share any content here.
So when @icymi highlighted this post as significant, @the-gorilla took a look with a view to supporting it.
But something within the post was amiss. A title that appeared irrelevant to the article and the original source of the article was quickly identified.
Knowing "World of Football"'s intolerance to plagiarism, the administrators and moderators were to be notified and it then became clear why this post had not been checked...
ā ļø World of Football moderator @edmund.nef had been caught plagiarising
@the-gorilla investigated further and found 4 additional posts which he highlighted as plagiarised:
- @edmund.nef/simeone-applauds-atletico-s-extraordinary-spirit-after-dramatic-win
- @edmund.nef/premier-league-s-best-defenders-ranked-find-out-if-your-defender-is-part
- @edmund.nef/pep-guardiola-reveals-two-teams-he-believes-are-superior-to-normal-manchester-city
- @edmund.nef/senegal-draws-0-0-with-egypt-aet-4-2-penalties-mane-shines-as-the-lions-of-teranga-win-their-first-afcon-title
I've no doubt that we'd find more acts of plagiarism and following the discovery, "World of Football" admin, @njaywan, replied with:
Thank you so much for drawings attention to this. It will certainly be dealt with.
Almost 24 hours later, we are still watching closely to see the action that is required.
any user found guilty of plagiarism or content abuse will be banned from this community and place on the "muted" status, after which they can no longer share any content here.
In the meantime, he's been muted from Steem Sports (because I'm a moderator).
It can be seen that @edmund.nef has received good support from steemcurator and booming accounts despite the content being plagiarised. In fact, Post 4 above received both steemcurator and booming support despite it being 92.7% identical to another source and easily found to be plagiarised.
Does this user deserve to be in a position in which they're more likely to be supported in this way?
Tough on plagiarism? It takes more than words to be tough on plagiarism.