For last few days, many people asked if dlike is helping plagiarism on steem blockchain? I had to explain them the working pattern of dlike platform. Now, it is better to answer some basic questions about dlike.
What is plagiarism?
According to Wikipedia:
Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.
What is dlike and how it works?
As you all know, dlike is a social bookmarking app where users can share useful links with their friends (followers) and family (loved-ones). It is just like reddit, Pinterest and Scoopit.
Being a social bookmarking app, it works just like any other social bookmarking site by crawling the given URL. dlike crawls to get meta-tags mentioned on that specific page and share it on the platform.
What are meta tags?
According to Wikipedia:
Meta tags are snippets of text that describe a page's content; the meta tags don't appear on the page itself, but only in the page's code. We all know tags from blog culture, and meta tags are more or less the same thing, little content descriptors that help tell search engines what a web page is about.
From the above definition, it is very obvious that Meta Tags are used by webmasters to describe any specific page and these are not part of page so it is very clear that if we get data from meta tags, it is not coming from the content of that page and anything that is not coming from content, can not be measured as copied or plagiarism.
So dlike is not helping any kind of plagiarism on steem blockchain nor it supports any such efforts. We never scrape data but crawl data from meta tags of the given URL and its the same practice all major search engines and social sharing sites follow.
Secondly, dlike always mentions "source of shared link" and it is directed to the origin of that specific URL.
What about images shared?
As we all know, using any image without the consent of the original owner is illegal. dlike strongly follow this. We always crawl images of given url from meta tags and never scrape from the page itself. Images present in meta tags are those which are provided by webmasters to describe that specific page or content so its a consent made from webmaster himself to explain what this page is about.
If there are no images in meta-tags, then dlike omits it. Again, dlike gives source of shared link to follow global guidelines of sharing any image from one source to other. For uploaded images through dlike platform, we give the source of the image as users steem profile so he is directly responsible for that image, whether he owns it or uploaded from some public source. In near future, we will be using IPFS for these uploaded images to give users more authority.
What efforts dlike is making to stop spamming on steem blockchain?
dlike is always committed to proof of brain. This is why we give more importance to comments on our platform. We have limited the number of posts shared by any user to maximum 5 per day. Not only this, dlike has also implemented a user score mechanism which is purely based on progressions and decides maximum accepted payout cap for any post.
Any post shared on dlike platform has a cap of $3 which gradually increase with user score value and is yet fixed at maximum level of $10. This progression entirely depends on users contribution to proof of brain, means his efforts for commentary on dlike platform.
dlike is rewarding its users work in the form of upvote which is based on 70-30% ratio of comments to posts. This shows another commitment of dlike to improve proof of brain on steem blockchain.
In a nutshell, dlike is strictly against plagiarism and any such efforts and it follows core values of steem blockchain by ensuring more proof of brain.
dlike is looking for investors:
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dlike is hiring:
dlike is hiring ambassadors for its platform. If you have good repute on steem blockchain, has good working relations with other teams and have been on steem related discussion channels for some good time, then you must join dlike team as an ambassador.
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