I recently announced two posts that deal with these issues.
https://steemit.com/buildawhale/@buildawhale/buildawhale-terms-of-use-notice
https://steemit.com/steemit/@buildawhale/buildawhale-abuse-discord-channel
I will look into it and if I confirm it is plagiarism, I will remove the vote and if I see previous use from the same user doing the same thing, I will blacklist them.
I have open channels so people can contact us to deal with this sort of thing. It is financially and physically impossible for us to police everything submitted to us. There are services in place that get paid to deal with these issues @cheetah and @steemcleaners and the platform accepted way to deal with these issues is to flag them. Unfortunately, this costs users time and money but it is impossible for us to do this preemptively and it is a large problem on Steemit as a whole.
We have created systems in place to reward and encourage quality content and will do what we can to prevent such use. We are not a prostitute bot, I am doing the best I can with the tools I have available. A large amount of content here on Steemit falls under this category and it is an on-going problem that @cheetah and @steemcleaners with millions of financial backing have not been able to resolve.
I will go out of my way to prevent it when I am aware of it, we just don't have the resources to police it.
Even professional tools used to detect this stuff isn't effective.
UPDATE: I know you want an instant response, and I don't want to make a knee-jerk reaction. It is a complex topic. For example, looking at his two previous bids, I get this:
Reviewing the content, it is clear he used it as a source, but in these two cases, it was not as obvious as the case mentioned here. These he didn't follow the flow of the white paper at all and as far as I can see it is unique work. In all three cites the source, not formally but does link back to it.
The case brought up in this post is clearly based entirely on the original work and structure. Not only was it based on the original work, it was practically written exactly like it with changes to words to avoid "copying" it. Again he mentions the source but does not properly use it as a citation. In this case, my initial feeling it is plagiarism but it is not something I want to react to without proper research. His two previous bids at the initial glance look based on the original work but unique and not reworded line by line as in the case brought up in this post.
Plagiarism is a very complex topic that even courts have difficulty defining, as it is not only based on words but the idea of the original work. I need some time to think about this, but I will respond soon. I just don't want to blindly remove a vote from someone without due diligence. I assure you I am not turning a blind eye, or prostituting out upvotes as so vividly described, I just cannot make a knee-jerk reaction without spending proper time looking at it.
What I have seen, in the case of this particular post I do believe it falls under plagiarism, but I haven't done enough research to say he is a plagiarist and that's not something I want to say until I have. There is still time until the payout comes up.
Update 2: I have removed the vote.
RE: We have a skilled plagiarist on steemit (Win SBD)