When we talk about fraud and trying to take money from Steemit platform, everybody is talking about small fish, but there are some members with high reputation trying to do that. I noticed one member of Steemit community with reputation 72 copy/paste many articles on daily bases. She usually post 6-8 long articles with reference at the end. Because they are long, there is no way that articles are in her own words. Probably, what she does is copying whole article and than changing few sentences, so @cheetah woudn't mark her article as copy/paste. She also very rarely comment on that articles. Also noticed all the likes on her articles are from same people. I woudn't be suprised if they all have deal to be on auto-voting list for each other, so they can take money from Steemit. Every single post by her is worth 40$-50$, so for sure she makes 200$+ every day on Steemit. I'm not saying she is classic fraud, but it is so obvious she is posting copied articles just for the money.
I'm writing this because I know there are many people trying hard to write long articles in their own words on Steemit and after that getting pennies or few dollars. I wrote few articles, only one reached 20$, rest of them were few dollars or pennies. That is not fair, everybody can follow her example of copy/paste and get reward, but what is the point of that? What would this network look like if everybody do what she does?
Of course we need to stop any minnow trying to take money from Steemit by fraud, but we have to do that also with every member with high reputation if we want to make Steemit great!
Didn't mention her name because I don't have anything against her. What I'm aganist is that EVERY copy/paste article from her is 40$+, but many great original articles from others are struggling for few dollars. That is not fair!