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Re: Text spinning/disguised plagiarism
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LoyceV
on 22/07/2018, 12:55:39 UTC
Would reporting such disguised posts would also result in users getting banned?
I certainly hope so! Not only are they copying someone else's work, they also alter it because they know what they're doing isn't allowed.
The next and even more annoying step is adding a homograph attack to the text.

WTF?  Excavators?  I get that it's sort of a synonym for "miners", but these types of posts just make me slap my head.  
It's an automated system that replaces words by synonyms. It's very annoying, and a spammer's response to getting caught with plagiarism. In the bounty campaign I've managed, it started with just copy/pasting, but quickly "evolved" into synonyms and homographs when they realized they didn't get away with it. It largely increased my work load, I spent much more time finding cheaters than reading real content.
And that's the problem: it's very little effort to create, and a lot of work to catch.