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cheetah bot rewards copy/paste‽

BY: @jgh | CREATED: July 12, 2017, 11:03 a.m. | VOTES: 2 | PAYOUT: $0.00 | [ VOTE ]

Hi
I'm just wondering what the point of the @cheetah robot is?
It seems to simply reward copy/paste posts, something I would think steemit would want to reduce.

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for example, this post is simply a copy/paste with no credit given from this site

@cheetah recognizes this and upvotes with the link to the original...

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There are so many, but here are some other examples
here
here
here

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TAGS: [ #steemit ] [ #writing ] [ #story ] [ #news ]

Replies

@sjennon | July 12, 2017, 12:17 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

@cheetah is a plagiarism hunter. There is a piece on it in the offical Steemit FAQ:
> @cheetah is a bot developed by @anyx that scours Steemit for copy/pasted content. Cheetah will not downvote copied content, but it alerts other users to look into it further.

> Abusive accounts (serial plagiarists or identity thieves, for example) will go on Cheetah’s blacklist. These users will get downvoted by @cheetah accounts when they post.

>More information on the @cheetah bot can be found in this post:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cheetah/faq-about-cheetah

@jgh | July 12, 2017, 1:23 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

The point of my post was that it upvotes. Why‽

@sjennon | July 12, 2017, 1:38 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

According to https://steemit.com/steemit/@cheetah/faq-about-cheetah it seems to be 'a sign of good faith'.

Not sure how else to answer this. Maybe you can get a better answer in Steemchat Channel of @steemcleaners.

@jgh | July 12, 2017, 1:40 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

This is very odd to me, it's rewarding the very thing is is there to stop.
Thanks for your reply ;)

@sjennon | July 12, 2017, 2:08 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Maybe it's to avoid putting off good users who might make an unintentional mistake. :)

No problem! Happy to help with my limited knowledge haha

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