RE: Nothing is Original - Plagiarism is not steemits greatest enemy
I haven't the time to watch the video this morning but will later.
I just want to add my thoughts to this discussion.
Yesterday afternoon I made a post that was just a StormCloudsGathering video from YouTube and the transcript for the video copied from SCG's website.
In the title of the post I clearly said that this was from one of my favorite YouTubers.
In the body of the post I also related the creator's wish and desire that his content be shared wherever and whenever it could be.
"The core principles of steemit are
- when posting, aim to contribute
- upvote material that contributes value
- only flag material that is abusive"
While I can't say that I knew what the core principles of Steemit are exactly. I only copied,(shared), that video and the transcript because I felt that it contributed value. And because I hadn't seen it on Steemit. Of course it's could be found in other places on the internet. But I thought that it would be a good thing to share it here.
Evidently, I was not correct in that assumption.
Here's the thing though. I am not interested in gaining anything from posting. Not that post or any other post I have made or will ever make. I'm not here to acquire gain anything other than the satisfaction of sharing, reading, viewing or listening to stuff that interests me and which I feel is important to the world in general.
I wish that there were some way to set up my account here that it couldn't be rewarded monetarily. (not that that has been an issue). At least that way my motives for posting something would not be questioned. And I wouldn't end up, after sharing something I felt would benefit others, feeling accused of being a selfish thief.
Thank you @stevesmith I agree sharing material is contributing value if you personally find it valuable. The only mistake you made with that post was not citing the article linked directly in your article. However you did nothing wrong technically as it was linked within the YouTube page. But @cheetah is a bot. It just couldn't detect what you had done. It only detects the copy paste and lack of linked source for copy paste.
Thank you so much for sharing this though as I think it's important that @anyx sees this and realises there is an issue in how it's received because as you haven't caused any offense nobody should have caused you any stress. We really don't want users like yourself getting a bad impression from steemit over good intentional policing of plagiarists. And that was the whole point of me writing this post as personally, I have friends talking about coming on here, and I worry about how they will feel when they slip up, make a common error and end up getting possibly harrassed or interrogated (but hopefully just kindly educated) over their easily made mistake.
Thank you for that. I understand what I did wrong and feel somewhat better about things now.
I will certainly be much more careful about what I "share" from others in the future. Most likely though, I'll just stick to posting stuff of my very own creation.
I hope I haven't damaged my reputation too badly.
PS I edited this comment because I forgot an "and"
That idea of yours is a good one. I wonder if they are planning on giving the option to remove rewards. It would probably mean the post would only be shared with followers and if any of them reblog their followers.
That would be very useful though. It's a great suggestion. Perhaps check the github and if it's not there post it as a proposal.