@cheetah is not the only bot that hates duplicate content. The googlebot despises duplicate content. Googlebot penalizes sites with mirrored content.
Since SteemIt has more inbound links to most sites. Google will automatically assume that it is the canonical source for your web content.
SteemIt articles show up on a large number of interfaces. So this thread is on SteemIt, Busy and numerous other sites.
https://busy.org/ai/@redpossum/why-i-hate-bots
Googlebot, and other webcrawlers, see this as a content mill. They will give demerits to all of the sites that have the duplicate content.
Mirroring your web site on SteemIt has the potential of completely removing your web from Google and other search engines.
Mirroring your site on SteemIt is a silly, silly idea that can destroy a site.
The best solution for content creators is to use SteemIt as an indexing service.
That is one should write a short paraphrased article on SteemIt with a link to the full article on one's independent site.
The structure where you paraphrase an article on SteemIt and link to your content makes it clear that your web site is the authoritative source for the information.
Rather than getting mad at @cheetah, I think people should rethink their decision of mirroring content on SteemIt.
That is some useful information, thank you for replying.
I don't have an ongoing dialogue with AMN. I'm just someone who enjoys their content, and I felt outrage at seeing them slandered by a %^&$#* bot.
The truth is, I have an ongoing hatred for bots in all forms. In factories and so many other places, they are the death of the working class. The only leverage we have ever had was the fact that the ruling class needed our labour. This is the meaning of the phrase "workers control the means of production". The introduction of robots to replace us in so many jobs is the end of that, and with it the last nail in the coffin of any hope of social justice. When the bosses no longer need us, we will have been reduced to irrelevance, and from there it is only one short step to annihilation.
If you think I'm paranoid when I say "annihilation", consider the Zika epidemic which struck Brazil in 2015. Genetically modified Aedes mosquitoes were introduced into the area by a British firm called Oxitech in 2014, supposedly to combat Zika, but instead a minor problem affecting a few remote villages became a sweeping epidemic affecting multiple nations. But we are told there was no connection. Granted, coincidence does not necessarily imply causation, but common sense tells us that was not an accident. Consider some of the public comments by Bill Gates about the use of GM mosquitoes for "population control" in Africa, and tell me he's not advocating eugenics.
The word "Luddite" is used to discredit anyone who speaks as I do, but the Luddites are much misunderstood. Ned Lud and his followers were not blindly anti-technology, per se, they simply objected to the loss of their jobs, and with them their ability to feed their children, their very means of survival.
I dislike bots as well.
Unfortunately, the net is awash in bots that attack and mislead people on the net. The only way to counter the bots that are attacking the net is with defensive bots.
Spam is generated by bots. Viruses are bots.
Search engines are generated by bots.
There are numerous bots that harvest and republish content on the net.
I mentioned busy.org. Busy.org is a huge site that republishes posts from SteemIt.com. To an extent, busy.org could be described as a "bot." It is a server that republishes information from SteemIt.com.
Creating a bot is easy.
People often behave like bots. That's the idea behind memes. A graphic artist creates a provocative graphic and a huge number of people reblog the graphic.
We can't get rid of bots; so we have to talk about what they do and we need to figure out how to deal with issues related to bots.
As @cheetah and steemcleaners are trying to use bots to counter other bots, they are an interesting structure.