Thanks @flauwy for this article (and: nice to Steem you! :-)).
The question that arose while reading you is: how is determined the worth, and above all the objectivity/trustfullness of a @smartcash -related post? I understand the articles scanning is undertaken by @smartbot, is it the case? Does anybody earn those smartcash rewards, in spite of, for instance, copying/pasting texts from other authors (like some Steemians unfortunately do to earn STEEM/SBD...), or in spite of including in their publications false or unverifiable claims?
Thanks in advance for your lights!
Well, the posts are upvoted by the SmartHive team for Steemit. It is all decentralized and there is no central governing body. But as they are all very active and interested in pushing the project forward and the rules clearly state unique information I assume they check the posts for plagiarism adn false info. But I have no data about that. You can ask yourself in the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/VMwh3TR
I have not seen Steemians making good money with stolen content as there are tons of mechanisms exposing these posts.