Detect paraphrased contents, and report to moderators!

[pacific 2268]

Hello cryptotalk enthusiasts!

 

I am writing this topic, to acknowledge everyone with the ongoing scams on the forum. It has been a headache for all us seeing such meaningless/ paraphrased content in the forum, and many users are using such paraphrasing tools to bypass plagiarism or to cheat the system.

 

So, the topic is mainly focused on how we can detect paraphrased contents and report it to moderators.

 

First you need to know what is paraphrasing and how it is different from plagiarism?

 

Paraphrasing is a technique in writing in which a writer modifies the words and express it similarly without depreciating someone's facts or opinion.

 

However, Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent.

 

 

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The question arises, how paraphrasing is supposed to be a spam to the forum?

 

Well the answer is, many people are using online paraphrasing tool and publishing garbage contents with excessive modification which are totally meaningless and has low quality texts. Even the publishers doesn't know what sense their posts really make or what value it holds in the forum. They are just here using random word replacer tool to spam, and validate their garbage publications and avoiding plagiarism with such paraphrasing tools.

 

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How can we detect such posts? And report to admins?

 

For detecting paraphrased contents, manual verification on the suspected post can be done. For example: A paraphrased text may contain meaningless words or out of the context(irrelevant) words in it. We just have to notice such posts and report them to moderators for violating the forum rules.

 

Furthermore, we can detect paraphrased content by searching for the specific term or words that are not relevant to the forum, like discussion board, paintings, human being, Amateur, Pocket, Substance and many more.

 

Please refer to the following search terms in the forum, 

The paraphrasing tools often replace these words.

 

The bold texts are the actual search terms to detect paraphrased contents.

 

1.  forum     =>        discussion board 

2.  work      =>         paintings 

3.  wallet     =>        pocket

4.  risk        =>        danger

5.  people   =>        human being

6.  newbie   =>       amateur

7. content  =>         substance

8.  near     =>          approximately

9.  old        =>         ancient

10. discussion  =>   gathering

11. talk token  =>   speak token

12. risk          =>     danger

 

Some evidences of paraphrasing contents(Screenshots):

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Note: You can also search for the specific word i.e. bold texts as your search query.

 

Trial: https://cryptotalk.org/search/?q=paintings&quick=1

 

On searching, I was able to obtain the following result, which is highlighted in the screenshot:

 

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Result: I came to discover some paraphrased content which has also been copy-pasted in the same section.

 

Please, try with other search terms, and if you find something suspicious please report it to the forum moderators. In this way we can track paraphrased contents and report them to moderators to keep our forum clean and free from spams.

 

If you love my work, please kindly mention me in the comment section and let me know if this trick was helpful or not. Thank you for your valuable time reading this article.

 

 

Your suggestion and feedbacks are much appreciated.❤️🙏

 

Edited March 5, 2021 by pacific
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[Whited35 15285]

Excellent effort ! I also had conversation with moderator regarding this matter. Perhaps, forum is adding the algorithm to  filter out the paraphrased words automatically. Outputs of the texts depends on the different types of paraphrasing tools. Some cheaters also use words rotating tools which put an extra difficulties on detecting the texts. Anyway, keep it up to clean forum from spammers, I am with you. 

[kyoukage01 3181]

On 3/6/2021 at 2:07 AM, pacific said:

Your suggestion and feedbacks are much appreciated.❤️🙏

Paraphrased text is one thing, but how do you know whether the supposed offender really copied text from somewhere else, or just plain sucked with the English language and resorts to using translation and/or grammar tools?

 

There are cases where flagged members complain about why they got warning points or banned, and an irrefutable evidence is needed to shut them up. So when reporting plagiarized/paraphrased content, you are also expected to include the source material for evidence. The moderator takes extra work in verifying reports, and that includes looking for original sources of offending contents if the report doesn't have any. A report with no original sources included will only make the mods busier.

 

Maybe for now things aren't that hectic now that the forum is relatively peaceful, so the mods have more time trying to back up the reports with more evidences. But what if Yobit decides to do another airdrop, using this forum as a platform again?

 

Looking for original sources of paraphrased content can be harder than copy/pasted ones, I know. But members who want to help by reporting spammers should do so anyway. There would be lesser false accusations that way.

 

Edited March 11, 2021 by kyoukage01

[maarcoferrer 1096]

This is the only way for me to report something to the moderators, because honestly I don't like to do it because I prefer to ignore all the bad things that are not going to add to me, but this doesn't add to the forum either so if someone is aware that the rules are not being followed and reports it he should take the consequences because it is essential that we continue with the best teamwork that we have been doing.

[huesca123 946]

There are programs that forums use to find copy & paste content, also plagiarized content. The Mods here use these programs to find crappy content. that is why it is important to give negative ratings to crappy posts. Stop these people from cheating the forum.

[Syedbesharat 5423]

I have encounter many copy paste users but now the paraphrase content writers come in so in would take extra measures to take them down. The forum is giving reward to those who are genuinely working hard and cheaters not meant to be rewarded here. In this process we have to find the evidence and less the burden of modes so they can remove the cheaters from the forum. Many of members are doing great job in hunting down those paraphrase content writers. But I think they have to be stopped and give them a right way where they spent time in paraphrasing, why not they learn it by spending some more time, why not take it seriously, why you become lazy and lower yourself they have to think about this , We have to help those who want to learn and become better. I am still learning and thankful to this forum who teached me so much. Their for I always take extra care in reporting plagiarism to mods so they have real culprit in hand. 

[kryptonick 2659]

On 3/5/2021 at 8:07 PM, pacific said:

discussion  =>   gathering

Lol! This one I've seen it used very often. But if the post makes sense, it is very hard to find the other post this member paraphrased. Thanks however for this list, I didn't try to look, and was only going to report the obvious plagiarism. It seems paraphrase may have been widely used by these scammers.

[cheri farah 487]

But what if the member you reporte was writing his own words and was not paraphrasing any one in that case you are harming him or her instead of benefeting the forum 

[scorpiali 5626]

I think it's the work of the admis and they need to use the bot detect for that to avoids any plagiarism like that and any kind of it because there is a lot of them not only change the word by another synonym, also we should help for that but not to much 

[Ridam 7455]

This thing is spreading a lot in the forum these days and while reporting it is also difficult  to collect the evidence as the paraphrased content doesn't look identical to the original source. These tools are so advanced that I had seen that in few scenario, the sentence structure are also changed which leads even difficult to prove it is copied as the meaning are same while the writing structure is different.
You have done the great effort writing about it and lets be optimistics about the solution of it and if  we do report such in collective way , sure we would be able to lessen their numbers in the forum making the forum clean again.

[Powell 572]

This is indeed a great way to identify the paraphrasers in the cryptotalk and I think no matter their level intelligent to hide, this suggestion method will expose them and we should report to the platform moderators, thank you.

[Raauf QK 1013]

There are a lot of people who are rewriting what they've actually shared, adding some words to it to look unique or new.

They also steal some words from those people who have responded to the subject and made it look like a post and it's all considered cheating.

[Alema 133]

Good idea. She did not know that she could inform the administration of what I see wrong. That I can help you with the cleaning of the platform. So I really appreciate this information.

[Jessica7 1132]

This is good information. We must all help the moderators and moderators keep the forum clean, so it is our duty to report any unhelpful or inappropriate content and also report all fraudulent operations that we encounter,