@Read.Cash
Disabling the "Syndicated or Non-OC" tag
Ok, so we have released the copyright protection system about a month ago, because read.cash was spammed with articles copied from Bitcoin.com, Investopedia, etc... https://read.cash/@Read.Cash/copy-paste-protection-c4bd5de3 However, a lot of users wanted to reprint their own content. We have no way of verifying user claims about who owns which content. That led to much contention with the community. We think that we have a good solution to this in the future, but it will require quite some time to implement. In the meantime we're still receiving complaints daily about this. So we're removing the "Syndicated or Non-OC" labels from all articles and disabling the detector for now.
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if that's ok with you can you briefly talk about the new solution? i mean how it's going to detect spam articles from original content?
What's planned is a pretty complex system to be honest, we're going more in the direction of the personalization, where everyone would decide for themselves what exactly they want to see. But frankly it's probably a plan for a few months, so it makes no sense to tell about it in detail, since the details change often as we continue to think about it :)
i understand. that's completly true. good luck with that and i hope everything goes well for you :D
I can't wait to see what comes next...I understand that as a bleeding-edge platform, there will always be some issues that we must work out. So far, I've only great things to say about the read.cash team after reading this decision.
If the new one doesn't work out, I hope you go back to the current OC marker one - whatever to save your time so you can keep improving readcash.
"I always have 100% trust in read.cash team for listening to users complaints and proffer immediate solutions". Meanwhile, I will urge users to stay away from plagiarism pending the time a new system will be installed. Thank you all.
A suggestion to enforce the anti-plagiarism program on read.cash and encourage people to put sources: 1) There should be a window popping up before publishing. (a) window must be filled with a link source where they got the idea or something. By that people will be encouraged to put some. (b) window that shows an agreement/warning and must be checked. 2) An article with sources has a higher distribution income than those with no sources. Do not worry when you implemented this, EVERYONE will do it, thus, it would go back to the normal distribution. For everyone who wants to check their work. You can check your work in here: https://edubirdie.com/plagiarism-checker (DO NOT FORGET TO PUT YOUR SOURCES)
Although I agree that plagiarism is a huge problem and should be solved, I feel like it’s best for the growth of the community for content creators to be able to share their content across different platforms. It’s a hard problem but if solved can help all parties involved. Looking forward to what read.cash comes up with. You guys have pleasantly surprised me with the fund idea. I’m sure you’ll do the same with the OC content.
I don't think deactivating it is the solution. I will suggest you made another before deactivating the old one.
Actually it's good because it reduces the problem of copying other people's content. Is there no better decision because disabling is also not a good step in my opinion.
Actually, I good the way copy and past doesn't allow to be here. It helps to prevent copy and past.
Hey while it was a little annoying we don't want to become Uptrennd and fill of crap repetitive non OC posts.
They listened to me and implemented my suggestion....so, you were right. Even though read.cash and I had the flame war in the comments section of my article last week, in the end they saw that this was a good idea and listened to our comments! Thanks again, read.cash!
Yep. Great to hear. The RC team has shown they really listen to feedback. So I was optimistic. Many platforms do not. Some like Facebook even delete alternative views and established facts.
Yes, there is a plan. The copy-paste detector wasn't deleted. It will just be shown as a guide for human beings to make decision. That's about all I can tell right now :)
Sounds great - thanks RC :) All the best with your new solution and community support!
Wow big move. What ever the answer. Getting rid of copy cats and avoiding 10,000 posts about roses needs to be important.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! It's so nice to see that you guys reacted to the article I wrote by implementing my suggestions, even after our initial disagreements on the subject. Thanks so much for being an admin team that values the input of your users!
I am not sure about this move, honestly. It will definitely lead to a lot of copy pasted crap, thus kinda degrading the site as a whole. Maybe it would have been worth it to deal with the issues everyday, I don't know, just what I think.
Again, we have a plan how to deal with this better. It'll just take some time and it makes no sense replying to all "my article got Non-OC tag" support requests. Let's see how it goes.
Cool. I mean.. I fully supported the idea and I am happy to see you guys have a better idea coming soon. Meanwhile I wonder, why not turn it around and make a "original content approved". You think it would lead to the same contention and support requests? I'm fine with it either way. You guys do a fantastic job. Please don't feel disheartened about the naggers. And I just realize there were quite a few content creators, who stopped using this site, so maybe you'll actually see a nice increase in quality content.
I mean even with all the badges in the world sometimes it's just impossible to keep the author on site. Sometimes people just stop writing at all.
Removing the restrictions is ok. But i think it was a bad idea to remove the tag. Also, how can i remove articles from a community i am moderating? I can approve them, but cant remove them later?
Go to the approved article, you'll see a `(remove)` link next to the community name. Please wait about the Non-OC tag, we'll release the new communities in a month or so and it'll allow community moderators to take OC into consideration.
sounds fine, thankyou
What is happened to user CIZED? He sent daily 10 articles to my programming community, i only allowed two in total, and blocked the rest (40 or so) and now he and his articles are gone, two of the articles i approved, are now inaccessible, but the preview of the articles are still displayed in the community https://read.cash/c/developers-and-programmers-c0e2 i think this is a bug, because if his account got wiped out, then the algo should have cleared the communitys as well. if he got renamed, then the links should change automatically.
Well, he decided to post about 100 comments with the same content getting quite a few points and got banned for it. Yeah, that's a bug, we'll fix it. Thanks!
hmm maybe the point system should be modified, and users should not be able to get more than a certain points per day (and people from the same IP mask x.x.x.* should be treated as one user from the aspect of the pointing system), then it would be hard to exploit it for free money.
Done.
thankyou
hi there! It’s great site. so many topics and opinions. I used to read, basically https://www.washingtonpost.com but now your site one of my favorites. Thank you!
Read.cash got a lot worse. This is a good first step, now remove the fund, remove the boosted, remove the upvoting and change the hompage back to the tiles please, thanks