I've not been a Steemian in any meaningful sense for more than a handful of weeks but in that time I've noticed the way a significant subset of bloggers operate.
On the one hand the approach is economical both of time and effort and oftentimes seems to be pretty lucrative too but it is dishonest. I'm talking about the huge amount of copypaste jobs around here. Work that is misattributed or just goes uncredited, now is it always essential to attribute everything? Probably not; I mean 'nothing is new under the sun' right? Yes I'm not going to look up exactly where Shakespeare wrote that. But when work is comprehensively misrepresented as the poster's own this really Grinds My Gears.* (*Family Guy - some episode or other.. Ok so that one was unnecessary too)
But this seems to happen pretty often - video, photos and written work too and whilst for now even the most super-mega-ultra whales of Steemit are really minnows in the world beyond this site that won't last for long. Not with a product as great as this place is.
I'd anticipate (on a site built on an unalterable blockchain) a lot of future lawyers making a healthy living off the fruits of their plagiarism checkers round these parts when we are the new Facebook. These law suits would pretty much write themselves after all they are so strightfoward. So those that do this kind of thing (and I don't feel it's my place to name names here) I hope that when the time comes your steem is worth enough to pay your legal bills. I don't expect this will change anyone's behaviour if they are churning out 10s of posts a day and getting paid but whatever I feel better for having said it ☺