cheetah bot rewards copy/paste‽

@cheetah is a plagiarism hunter. There is a piece on it in the offical Steemit FAQ:

@cheetah is a bot developed by @anyx that scours Steemit for copy/pasted content. Cheetah will not downvote copied content, but it alerts other users to look into it further.

Abusive accounts (serial plagiarists or identity thieves, for example) will go on Cheetah’s blacklist. These users will get downvoted by @cheetah accounts when they post.

More information on the @cheetah bot can be found in this post:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cheetah/faq-about-cheetah

The point of my post was that it upvotes. Why‽

According to https://steemit.com/steemit/@cheetah/faq-about-cheetah it seems to be 'a sign of good faith'.

Not sure how else to answer this. Maybe you can get a better answer in Steemchat Channel of @steemcleaners.

This is very odd to me, it's rewarding the very thing is is there to stop.
Thanks for your reply ;)

Maybe it's to avoid putting off good users who might make an unintentional mistake. :)

No problem! Happy to help with my limited knowledge haha