Weeks ago, on joining steemit, I was severally warned by a friend of mine who told me of steemit never to copy and paste my posts from any other site or blog as there is a bot named 'cheetah' who will peruse the world wide web in search of similar contents. He told me I'll be flagged and downvoted by "cheetah" once am guilty of copy and paste.
Since then I've been mindful of that. When I copy a point or two from an author online, I'll have to reference the site. Even at that, "cheetah" will detect that my points where copied from somewhere on the world wide web even though the bot will upvote me this time.
On hearing about utopian-io, I've fallen in love with the idea and contributed quite often. But my contributions has been disapproved twice even when I searched through the site before making the post. I then begin to wonder how the moderators detected the similar post that wasn't shown to me.
To enable all utopian-io contributors effectively use the site, I belief a "cheetah " like bot be built on utopia-io so as to avoid the bad feelings felt by contributors when their posts are disapproved. Imagine searching the utopian-io site and discovering no similar contribution to what you have in mind. Then you took out a day or two to compile your contribution and ended up not getting approved because one similar contribution that you couldn't find when you used the search button has been made by another utopian-io contributor .
MY PROPOSITION
Posts shouldn't go live on steemit immediately after they have being published on utopian-io
Let a "cheetah" like bot first peruse the utopian-io website.
If similar contents are found, let the user be informed via comment and given an option to "CONTINUE WITH POST" so it appears on steemit even when he's aware he won't be rewarded by utopian-io or better still "DELETE" the post.
"OR"
Let a "cheetah"like bot be embedded on the utopian-io search button so one could just copy and paste his entire contribution in order to verify if there are similar contents on utopia-io
This will ensure most utopian-io contributors won't waste time making a contribution that'll never be rewarded on utopian-io.
what happens to the moderators?
They can stick to helping contributors contribute properly. As shown below
Where as the bot should be responsible for post approval (of no similar content) that will then be verified by moderators to hid to the rules before rewards.
Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors