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This post is aimed at the experienced curators out there who feel confident they can detect plagiarized work and do check posts for plagiarism if something feels fishy. You may have noticed that @humanbot just began certifying some posts as "Human Certified Original Work", leaving the below badge and specifying that @carlgnash manually determined the post to be original.
Example @carlgnash / @humanbot comment:
@carlgnash from the @humanbot Human Certified Original Works Initiative has manually determined this post to be the original work of the post author. To learn more about this certification visit the Badge of Originality genesis post:
@carlgnash/the-badge-of-originality-human-certified-original-worksThanks for being an original content creator! You rock!
Don't @cheetah and @originalworks have this covered?
Nothing against @cheetah and @originalworks here, but they are just bots. I say that as a humanbot, with love in my heart. @cheetah and @originalworks can and do make mistakes. A human is able to take into account so many more factors when determining if a post is plagiarized than a simple algorithm. Observe:
In this case, @cheetah got it correct and @originalworks did not. The user was changing enough words around in the articles that @originalworks did not detect the plagiarism. Just using this as an illustration that the bots are not infallible. @cheetah is harder to check because it does not post anything if it thinks a post is original content - but I find plagiarized posts all the time that @cheetah did not catch. And I find plagiarized posts all the time that Original Works certified as original... many times called by the post author, as in the example above!
@humanbot wants YOU for the Steemit Original Content Army!
Original @carlgnash art combined with public domain Uncle Sam art
If you like the idea of leaving a Badge of Originality when you have determined that a post is original content, @carlgnash would be happy to make you a customized Badge of Originality with your avatar (or any other image of your choosing) in the center, as well as any custom color scheme (choose a color for badge itself, or a color gradient, or rainbow, etc., choose a color for the text - if you don't specify it will just stay as is with gray badge and black text). Just leave a comment here stating your interest in taking part in the @humanbot Human Certified Original Works initiative and letting me know what avatar/picture to use (paste it into the comment) as well as any special requests RE color scheme. Check out the Badge of Originality genesis post for a step-by-step tutorial on how this badge was created.
I (@carlgnash) will be reviewing the blog and recent activity (especially comments and voting patterns) of anyone who expresses an interest. I am looking for experienced curators who have demonstrated an ability to discern what is original content. In some cases it will be very obvious to me and I will reply immediately in the comments to let you know that I am working on your badge. In some cases I might have some follow up questions for you and might ask you to DM me on steemit.chat or Discord. In some cases I might respectfully decline - I will always be happy to discuss my reasoning with you in DMs on steemit.chat or Discord in this case.
In general if you are lower REP than 42 I would say come back when you are a little better established, I don't want these badges to be thrown around like candy and I don't want people to associate the badge with low REP users. No offense. I am looking for seasoned curators who can smell plagiarism from a mile off. There are a lot of sneaky plagiarists out there and it takes some time to get to know all the ways they try to trick ya.
Well I hope to see some responses here!
Much love - @carlgnash / @humanbot