Greetings to you, wonderful Steemians! I trust you are all having a good day. Today on my blog, I will be sharing with you the general guidelines or code of conduct guiding our activities with regards to content creation and posting in this wonderful platform. Following the successful voting and verification of my achievement two post, I have come up with my achievement three post which is aimed at conveying the essence of content etiquette in the steemit platform.

INTRODUCTION

The essence of content cannot be overemphasized as the true value of an object or thing is known by what it carries or it is made of. Etiquettes guides the activities of a particular organization or establishment.

CONTENT ETIQUETTE
Firstly, content is said to be that which an object contains or hold while, the Cambridge Dictionary defines etiquette as the set of rules or customs that control accepted behaviour in a particular social groups or social situations.source

In every organization, there are sets of customs which are established to regulate the behaviour of individuals working in the organization in order to keep the organization moving forward. Failure to follow these laid down rules attracts specific punishments.

STEEMIT ETIQUETTES

There are notable etiquettes which serve as guidelines to the individuals that uses the platform in order to help them not just to post original contents but to remain relevant in every aspect of usefulness that they can be to the communities they are subscribed to!
Some of these guidelines are stated as follows according to @thecryptofiend source

• Don’t post and run
• Don’t over-post
• Don’t Post nudity or graphic imagery unless you tag it with NSFW
• Don’t be a fake, plagiarise or pass off others’ work as your own
• Don’t engage in tag spamming
• Don’t resteem everything you see
• Don’t post unrelated links in comments
• Don’t directly ask for votes
• Don’t expect reciprocal votes
• Don’t bribe people for votes, re-steems, follows or ask directly for money and so many more.

PLAGIARISM

In simple and direct terms, Plagiarism is, I steal part of another person’s content or work which could be a picture, a phrase, a sentence or even an entire body of work and then label or rename it as mine without giving credible credit/acknowledgement/citation to the original owner.

This offence is highly punishable by law and can cause a setback to the culprit.
Plagiarism could be in diverse forms which includes the following;

DIRECT PLAGIARISM
Direct Plagiarism refers to me directly copying a person’s text, word for word and then reproducing it by pasting it to my work as my own. This form of plagiarism is the most barbaric of all.

SELF PLAGIARISM
This refers to me copying most or part of my previous work and then reproducing it in my current work instead of creating a new and different one from my previous work.
MOSAIC PLAGIARISM
Here, it means I get to copy fragments or parts from different works and then combine them together in a bid to be smart and creatively creating a content which I know it is not originally mine. ACCIDENTAL PLAGIARISM
As the name implies, accidental plagiarism has to do with me forgetting to cite the original source from where I got the initial information I used or a situation whereby I unknowingly create the same words or phrases another person has used in his or her work before.
In order to avoid Plagiarism, proper citation of the sources you got information from needs to be done on your work.

CITATION CONCEPT

Citation is the way or manner with which you inform your readers or audience that a certain material you utilized in your work came from another source. It also gives your readers the information that are necessary to find that source again. Such information may include;

• About the author
• Title of work
• Name and location of the company that published your copy of the source
• The date your copy was published
• The page numbers of the material you are borrowing and even more. source
  

EFFECTS OF PLAGIARISM ON STEEMIT

One’s integrity can be at stake when he or she is flagged to have been found wanting of plagiarism. When such continues, one’s reputation is set on retrogression and such a person is seen as unprofessional which can lead to a massive declination in the person’s benefits and rewards as there would be a lot of downvotes on his or her votes.

CONCLUSION

Having meticulously studied and understood the whole concept of the steemit community content etiquette, I pledge to do my very best to apply them in all I do on the platform.