I am writing this post from my mobile phone, please excuse me If I am not clear enough.

I don't really know where to start because in my opinion there is so much going on with Scorum right now. From the different types of abuse/plagiarism and irresponsible voting.

I will not name everyone I have been working with but some of you have probably noticed accounts like Antiplagiarism/Angel down-voting abusive behaviors of all kind and still are for the benefit of the platform. Since the launch of Scorum, I have joined forces with a bunch of people from the community to find and report all kind of abuse to those two accounts such as:

-Up-voting your own comments: I have noticed a major decrease in members up-voting their own comments and I feel like the message was heard. I believe everyone understand the danger of allowing people with massive amount of sp to run around up-voting their own comments. What if we all start doing it? what would be the point of wasting our time writing posts right?

High Sp holders abusing their voting power by making posts with only a few lines of text : We cannot expect it to stop. What we need to do is up-vote and down-vote in a responsible way. Do you truly believe a platform like Scorum could ever be taken seriously when people are earning hundreds of sp from writing a post full of grammatical errors or just a few lines of text?

Irresponsible Voting: It is true that there is a strategic part when it comes to voting because everyone wants to earn from their votes. When I speak about irresponsible voting, I mostly refer to members throwing their votes without paying attention. whales Up-voting comments with 100% of their VP/ Up-voting posts with almost no content/Up-voting plagiarized posts repeatedly.

Plagiarism/Google translators: Lately, a few community members brought to my attention that plagiarism has taken another form trough translation and well known members have taken advantage of it shamefully earning thousands of SP trough copying word for word translated posts via google. I will not call out names because these members were confronted while others are on their way to be confronted for what they have been doing and will hopefully reconsider their behavior for the benefit of every hard working Scorum author.

Writers only up-voting their own posts: This is selfish, I do not encourage down-voting these users but you should be aware of the authors that only use their voting power on their own posts. I have found a few over the past few days and I am making sure to never up-vote any of their posts until they change their behavior and YOU SHOULD DO THE SAME. 

It's just a question of time before we get to see other kind of abuses as well as other abusers and this is everyone's responsibility to help and stop these abuses right before we are overwhelmed with them ( look at steemit, there is no way to recover from what it has become). I believe the sooner we act against these different types of abuse the bigger the difference we are making for our future as members of this community.

The most important thing Scorum lack right now is a reputation system which is probably also being worked on. If you are ready to mess up your entire reputation just to earn a few extra sp effortlessly, you are throwing away the privilege you have being among the first users of the platform. Keep in mind that even if you make a 2nd or a 3rd account thinking you can just start over, you will end up hurting yourself. The more the platform grows the harder it will become for everyone to get noticed. If you mess up your account reputation right from the start you will have to work 10 times harder to get back to where you are right now.


If you want to help us, the community members that have Scorum at heart by reporting abusers or if you believe that you have been wrongfully targeted by one of the two accounts above I would like you to contact me via telegram to discuss everything more in detail!

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