Read.cash, when the OC detector fails.

It is a practice in every blogging platforms such as read.cash to keep their site free from spams and plagiarism by installing a software that helps check mate plagiarism and spamming. This software known primarily as originality content detector (OC) does the work of scanning every articles coming into the site for plagiarism and spams. But how reliable is the OC detector? Can it be always right or wrong?

The OC detector is doing a great job in read.cash by minimizing plagiarism and spams to the site. But i can tell you the OC detector can fail to do a proper job in most cases. I will give you three instances where the OC detector can fail.

1. Failure to detect copy and paste from different sites.

There are cases where the OC detector fails to detect the source of a content of an article that was taken from different sites and pass it as good. In this case, the OC detector fails to recognize that the content of the article was copied from different sites and put together as one. The OC detector can not be reliable in checking plagiarism in this case. There is a reference to @Mictorrani comment about this case.

2. Judgement based on article topic and not content.

It is disheartening and frustrating when after you have put up effort to produce an article only to be told your article is not original because part of the information on your article was found in the internet.

I have personally experience this in two occasions. What i did was to quickly copy the content of the said article and run it on Google to see where it was found. But what i saw was only similar topics and not same contents. In another case, just a statement found on the internet that i used on my article renders my article to be of not original.

In these cases, i think the OC detector isn't doing a thorough job.

3. Total failure to recognize a copy paste items because the topic was changed.

I have seen this in my moderator's job, a complete copy paste article pass the OC detector as original just for a change in the topic.

I don't really know how the OC detector works sometimes. I read an article on my Luno wallet one evening, that same night a user submitted the same article to one of the community where i moderate, with just a change to the topic. Though the user was sending it to the wrong community, i have to let him or her know that i have read the information on the article somewhere before and where it is coming from.

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