Working in academia has some advantages. There are no fixed working hours, you have a lot of freedom and you can put your hands on some new fancy equipment.
But there is more... You can put your hands on some cool software as well :)
No, I'm not talking about Uber Cool Ayasdi (for math) but I'm talking about ugly, custom-made script for plagiarism checking.
Take a deep breath
Ok, I'll start from myself, I'll check other high-ranking people and then I will continue to the 50th most rewarded account in the last 14 days.
The score goes from 0% for the absolute plagiarism to 100% for the absolutely original post.
The results:
Me: for the vast majority of my posts devoted to biology, chemistry and math, I've got 100%. My the worst score ever was 94%. That particular post was about my hobby, and it was made from multiple sources (about 5)
People I can trust: usually 100%, the worst score was 87%, but it's a false positive as well. The software simply picked-up some phrases here and there.
Ok, it can be trusted... Even for posts where you really can't be too original, the software still ranks you about 90%
Let's move down the list:
Something about Graphene, 70%: the 20th century was the age of plastics then its right to say that the 21st century is the age of graphene. from https://www.explainthatstuff.com/graphene.html
Let's check another random post from the same guy, 53%
Ok... It has something here and there but... Not a real plagiarism.
Next: <60%, because it's very similar to https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317483.php and wow, it's short
The same author also has one post with 48% (how on Earth my worst score was 90+ ?!)
We have some 70-75s...
Below 40% for Geoingeneering, it's nothing but a Wiki:
underground transmission lines, radioactive waste disposal, oil and gas pipelines, and solar thermal storage facilities, there is need for the measurement of thermal resistivity of soils and backfill materials required for its achievement to be carried out by geotechnical investigations.
underground transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, radioactive waste disposal, and solar thermal storage facilities. A geotechnical investigation will include surface exploration and subsurface exploration of a site
In Conclusion
My language community had about 30 people ever awarded. I personally blacklisted 3 or 4 and cleaned up my yard.
Today I can proudly say that all active members are trustful people, whose the worst level of education is M.Sc. Most of us are either Ph.D. or Ph.D. students. They can't plagiarize because they are actually making the original sources.
National curators, please clean up your yards. It's a very simple thing to do. If you want to do it.
If we keep paying for Wiki re-wording this is going nowhere because we will chase out all the smart people.
I really don't care if someone is poor or whatever with Steemit as the only source of income.
In that case - show some respect!
GOOD EU salary for skilled professionals is around 2.000 Eur. It's a 65/65 reward equivalent per day.
In the Eastern countries that salary is the equivalent of 20/20 reward.
It's insulting to put [ Copy - Wiki/ How Stuff Work - Paste - Change a few words ] post and expect to earn a daily salary of an expert. Those expert need to work 8 jours for that money.
Now I'm going to take a walk, see you tomorrow with blacklist updates.
It's time for <3 :* <3 :* <3 :* <3 :* <3 :* <3 :* <3 :* <3 :* <3 :* <3 :*
I can do it myself, but, have some fun and do something good for this community. It deserves the best and no less than that.