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RE: @msgivings, frequent trending author, has been EXPOSED for plagiarism. The question remains: Is this what Steemit wants to be?

in #steemit8 years ago (edited)

He/She could have scam with high quality content, it doesn't change anything to the equation, content quality is not relevant here

I'm not getting it. High quality content is the intended outcome.

create fake account, upvote it, boom, the fake account earn few hundreds

This is not a scam! It is part of the advertised and intended value of SP that authors can vote up their own content. If an author thinks the material is good and will get a following, we want them to buy SP in order to vote it up and promote it (buying SD to used the "Promoted" feature is another option).

The system mechanism is supposed to (and does) ensure that self-promoted content earns only substandard rewards (and possibly none at all if the content is so bad/abusive as to be downvoted). In order to earn good rewards (i.e. sustain a good return-on-investment on the SP that you bought) it is necessary that others vote for it as well.

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