RE: HUGE NEWS: Famous VC Investor FRED WILSON is ROOTING FOR STEEMIT!!
Wha?? The link to the article and text is in the OP. I thought the idea was to not take others creative content and to send Steemit users to the original sites that hold the content so that those sites will get hits/views. This is why @kevinpham20 didn't just post the full text in his post, I assume.
Then someone posts the full article in a reply and gets a lot of votes for doing what the original poster thought wasn't appropriate and ends up getting rewarded for it.
I've seen people on Steemit.com suggest that it's ok to link to YouTube content, because those channels are getting views and therefore money they wouldn't get otherwise. Well, if people are going to just copy and paste other people's content for convenience, what are the remaining arguments for this practice not being plagiarism?
I know it's still the wild west and proper etiquette is not clear, so I'm just adding my 0.02cents to the discussion.
So, we all want decentralization and less censorship, but we want it in such a way as to not have it conflict with the existing order of things. Have I got this right or am I missing something?
Your assumption is correct.
Also @doctostrange, the best way to voice your displeasure is to downvote the comment yourself.
Good point, and I would have downvoted if I didn't see that @dantheman , among others, had upvoted it. This is sending us all mixed messages about what are considered best practices.
Users like you @kevinpham20 are the kind of users I want to promote or curate. Not copy and paste users that are part of a scam to game the system to make millions of dollars off of the original content of others.
Pilfered content from YouTube can be promoted by whales and their lamprey for no effort to the tune of millions of dollars, while the real users are trying to:
Feels like a variation of Citizens United. Money is speech. You pay for influence which begets more money and influence.
I really want to see a site where people are civil, are rewarded on merit, and create new original content. That is the promise of Steemit.com, but we aren't close to that right now. It's being exploited in a huge money grab. Hopefully, the ship can right its course before the damage done prevents it from avoiding crashing in to the rocks.
@doctorstrange I felt uneasy voting against whales as well. Until I realized that we're all on the same team. If I justify logically that my vote was done in the best interest of Steemit, they'd understand. Our interests are all aligned and no one is infallible, even whales ;)