Thanks @razvanelulmarin
For the Expose 
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Firstly, great post, Upvoted. 

Secondly, thanks for the heads up on Project Curie. Definitely something I can support. 

Also, I've been doing quite a bit of work for @steemcleaners recently and can tell you, the articles that never come up as plagiarised are the ones with a lot of personal touch. I think the personal touch is something the community as a whole should reward and encourage; selfies, videos, unique writing styles, and authors who focus on a narrow range of subjects that interest them. 

The other point of course, is the presence of vote-betting, which a lot of people are criticising, and [I wrote about here.](https://steemit.com/steemit/@condra/the-curation-system-needs-to-incentivise-genuine-content-mining-be-honest-are-you-upvoting-or-betting) 
Most of us are guilty of voting on "sure shots" that we are confident will become popular. The incentive to do this should ideally be fixed, somehow.

Her material had turned to drivel. Whales were still voting on it because they get in that habit. I know on our curation team, we had some discussions about her posts and all agreed it was overvalued. That wasn't material we could have supported. 

Regarding plagiarism, we're all trying to catch it. I think we all just need to stay vigilant about any possible issues with people who are not posting original content. On Project Curie, we have proven Steemit writers conducting multiple reviews of each of these posts. We miss a few, but not many. 

You are right we all need to work hard to reach those people who have not made rewards like this but deserve to do so. 

I'm not going to worry about this case any more, though. It's water under the bridge. We try to learn from it and move on.

As soon as I saw her articles I thought they were made by a clickfarm because all their articles sound exactly the same! It's not hard to tell when a real woman is writing because we sound like [actual human beings!](https://steemit.com/relationships/@emilybickerson/where-have-all-the-good-men-gone)
I've already mentioned steemit to several of my girl-friends who also write this sort of content so as long as people are actually looking for it, I think there will definitely be better stuff than that msgivings garbage. Hopefully the voting reflects it too!

@razvanelulmarin drink some water... 
well pointed out ... !
it seems that upvoting is based on popularity ... 
so we see this is a problem ..
 the sad part is we can't really control the situation that causes this can we?  I guess we could only keep trying to come up writing good reads and hope it could dominate the platform one day.  

Or we could OFFER a solution a SYSTEM and pass it to the whales for approval?? don't know how it really works here  and hope again it would be heard. It's frustrating and sometimes, it's sad to watch people stop writing posts and come to think of it - their posts have helped starting minnows get to swim in this abyss - like @lurker1  ... and the many others , I wonder if he'd ever post again ...  

what's a good post? what's trash - that, too is unclear .  I've read posts of some teenagers and found out that there are actually teeners here and yet we have no PG13 sort'a censorship in here.  or is it even necessary - 

right now as am writing my reply, only 99 plus pips  seem to have reached your post 
so am sighing again, I'll go drink some water, too and have a great Sunday - cheers to the freaking weekend! will be partying it away ...

> But it shouldn't get thousand of rewards.

"Subjective proof-of-work" is... subjective. That is at the core of Steemit protocole and value. Deal with it. The protocole never specify what type of content should or should not receive high payouts. We all know the rules from the start and what it means. 

"Maybe" the mistake of Dan & Ned was to not find a way to select their happyfew whales based on their interests to please a specific niche of users... or maybe not.

Now, I personally have no problem with excessive rewards per se, or  even gossip/girly content earning lots of rewards. How much people earn and with what type of content is not my business. If they found their audience good for them. If whales want to upvote them good for them. Their choice, not mine, not yours.

If one is not happy with that, well there is a simple solution (that will please everyone, and will please steem traders particularly): Buy steems, power up, and be a whale. Period. Invest money in Steemit and shape the quality of the content.

That being said, what annoyed me is not the crappy content, it is that a scammer wins. Nothing more. (He/She could have scam with high quality content, it doesn't change anything to the equation, content quality is not relevant here) And I suspect that there is a whale behind that.

That is so simple to game for a whale. Think about it: create fake account,  upvote it, boom, the fake account earn few hundreds, which falls into the radar of other people and other whales. Rinse an repeat. With this process a 'dark' whale doesn't even need to cash out, just create fake account nurture it (and get the SBD). Then people who look after their curation reward will do the rest.

First I'm hearing about @msgivings but I agree her content was total trash.

What does Steemit want to be? It's the crucial question isn't it. Does it want to be a magazine or social media platform? Because they have very different priorities in how to incentivise for the outcome. Maybe it's time to fork into 2 different beasts? One which rewards quality articles and another which rewards engagement? Steemit and Steemus. Is the problem that Steemit it trying to be too many things? Personally I'd love to something that replaces facebook rather than Medium/Reddit.

Sorry folks. I pointed out a few more of these in my last post and they are still trending. Do better.  Curation is serious and not being taken seriously. 

If you think you can write a script to curate for you, you're wrong. 

People take this place seriously. If you don't take their paycheck seriously they will leave. Simple as that.

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Good post. All we can do is continue trying to create good content and help each other promote. Power in numbers!

Thanks for putting this out there. I for one, don't even read the trending pages, because, with some exceptions, its unappealing and rather frustrating. Seeing a shallow article make thousands, while some are begging for pennies, is enough to demotivative anyone. 
One thing I think would help is a NON trending tab. We have a way to see all the articles that are taking off, but no real way to see the ones that haven't. I would prefer to read prefer to leaf through potentially quality posts that missed the rocket ship, rather then scroll past the same old un provoking articles on the trending page that have already made more on one article then 50 quality posts that never got a good chance to be viewed will make combined.

I agree with both you and @positivesteem  Plagiarism has no place here or anywhere.  From what I understand, several of the developers actually have bots that vote based on algorithms they've set in place like headers, photos and videos.  That's a problem when bots can vote with power.
As for people who are caught blatantly plagiarizing...  I think their accounts should be voided and whatever money they didn't STEAL should go into the @null account and redistributed back into the HEALTH of the Steemit community.

Is there any policy to make plagiarism a ban-able offense? If not then that is probably the first step.

Yes, I agree with you. Steemit need to change, there should be no room for plagiarism. Steemit should be a platform for original, good and creative content. It is this type of content that will propel the growth of Steemit.

Is it odd that I feel like Steemit has a strong community of creators that eventually expose these questionable accounts? I agree the process needs to happen faster, but thankfully it does happen. I park in Steemitabuse-classic chat often to see what's being investigated, and have brought issues there.

I have high hopes for Project Curie, and I see the bumps in the road right now. I'm all in on whatever keeps this place generating great creators and collaborators, and whatever dips or shakeouts that have to happen just mean a more eventful ride. 

This article speaks to a lot of what's up here, and I'm glad you're on it for us

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!
You're my hero, @razvanelulmarin. 

Can we give this post the earnings from the plagiarized posts, because I would be totally behind that.

I know this might be hard to take but.. They upvote friends and what makes THEM the most money either  from curation or shill accounts.

Wow after reading this I basically just feel like a sucker.   Pushing out original content regularly that 90% of the time has value add for readers.  Readers literally telling my in the comments my work is undervalued.

Then I see that BS accounts and plagiarism hit for big chunks of money and then peace out, suck those Steem dollars right out of the system.   $$$s I invested with my fiat currency.   

Definitely not a good moment for moral....but I steem on because I believe hard work is rewarded or again, maybe I'm just a sucker.

If anyone is interested in content where you will learn something feel free to see any of my scaredy cat investing posts.

Value is subjective. No such thing as an objectively good article. The market decides that.