The engagement and continued growth of the POB community continues to amaze me, however there has been some significant talk lately about plagiarism and how we can combat this. This conversation has been around for many years and continues to plague Proof of Brain blockchains rewarding users for posting content.
These are the ways I see we can try to combat plagiarism and protect the rewards for the POB community:
- Find content that is Plagiarising and Downvote - this presents a dilemma for some people as they don't want to start any flagging wars by not doing their research. The idea of flagging content doesn't appeal to some either as they don't receive any rewards for doing so through curation.
- Follow a Flag-Trail - this involves following an account that will downvote plagiarised content with your account, thus giving them access to your downvoting power as a collective.
- Create a NoPOB4U account - this account is managed by select members of the community and receives a large delegation from @proofofbrainio. Community members can then report plagiarism and then @nopob4u can downvote the plagiarised post. This way the stake of the creators account is used and there are no flagging wars or particular accounts targeted for flagging. A team would be needed to manage this account and ensure it is not used for upvoting, only for removing rewards from plagiarised posts.
These are just some suggestions for combatting plagiarism on the POB community. Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks for reading.
