Reaching out to you all. Even though I have only been on here for a short time, the amount of blog posts here that are simply cut and copy from other sites is really bad.
We need to all work together to stop this..
One of the important things for steemit is to get ranked highly on google for the content that is created. The entire platform will be disadvantaged if we allow plagiarism or copyrighted material (images, video, music) etc.
I know of at least one whale that is using their weight to downvote these posts. I have also started to do the same.
So, I reach out to you all to do your part as well. If you come across such articles, downvote them using the flag at the top of the article. I also put a comment on that article to let them know that I have done so and why. This will help to inform others as well.
(Image source: http://www.matthewrmorris.com/classroom/students-plagiarize/)
