This kinda sets a strange prescient. Straight up stolen content and nothing else, like copying someone's entire article, sure, ban them. But what if a meme (that someone else created) is used or someone links to another's Youtube video to highlight a point they might be talking about, like many people on Facebook and the like do.
However, because the video that you've taken a screenshot of is a Steemit tutorial maybe it was a newer Steemit user that thought the information would be valuable to newer Steemit users because they found it on Youtube and were not aware of it being posted to the site before. Either way, its a Youtube video, the video is getting more views because of it, so it looks like a win-win.
I'm just being wary because everywhere I look people want more people to come to Steemit and get involved in cypto, but they'll get blind-sighted by stuff like this, since many of them are probably coming from places like Facebook, where just posting youtube videos they want their friends to watch is something that is allowed there.
The content views from Facebook still generate ad money, but the money goes to Facebook and not the poster. So why is it allowed there and not here? Why police something like simply posting a video, that the original poster will get views for anyway? Like I said Youtube pays ad revenue too, so win-win... Now if someone were to copy someone's entire article and re-post it a couple days later or something that like, yes, definitely, ban them. I just don't see the harm in a Youtube video. I suppose the Youtube video's creator should have the final say, if they really wanted to pursue it. Though they might lose subscribers that way.
I've been trying to take action to battle spam, stolen content/images and plagiarism, if you want to join me, check out The Daily Downvote.
It's important that people who are seious about the platform take action to help keep quality, original content a priority. The issue of stolen/spam content is only going to get worse as more people join. They need to incorrporate a button or form for plagiarized content.
Make sure that the rules are stated clearly for new users too :) Edit: They're not even 'rules' really. More like guidelines. Damn I respect it so much though. On a side note, just heard about that 'radiosteem' idea the other day and thought about what it could do for the music industry. Revolutionary shit.
With a little thought it would be pretty easy to remove the spammers you are referring to.
But I do feel that user moderation is the most sensible way to go, after all why would you create an incentivised, decentralised social media platform and then pay moderators to remove content.
User incentivised moderation could be the answer if a good way of implementation could be found
This kinda sets a strange prescient. Straight up stolen content and nothing else, like copying someone's entire article, sure, ban them. But what if a meme (that someone else created) is used or someone links to another's Youtube video to highlight a point they might be talking about, like many people on Facebook and the like do.
However, because the video that you've taken a screenshot of is a Steemit tutorial maybe it was a newer Steemit user that thought the information would be valuable to newer Steemit users because they found it on Youtube and were not aware of it being posted to the site before. Either way, its a Youtube video, the video is getting more views because of it, so it looks like a win-win.
I'm just being wary because everywhere I look people want more people to come to Steemit and get involved in cypto, but they'll get blind-sighted by stuff like this, since many of them are probably coming from places like Facebook, where just posting youtube videos they want their friends to watch is something that is allowed there.
The content views from Facebook still generate ad money, but the money goes to Facebook and not the poster. So why is it allowed there and not here? Why police something like simply posting a video, that the original poster will get views for anyway? Like I said Youtube pays ad revenue too, so win-win... Now if someone were to copy someone's entire article and re-post it a couple days later or something that like, yes, definitely, ban them. I just don't see the harm in a Youtube video. I suppose the Youtube video's creator should have the final say, if they really wanted to pursue it. Though they might lose subscribers that way.
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To be on the safe side, always give credit when using someone elses work
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I've been trying to take action to battle spam, stolen content/images and plagiarism, if you want to join me, check out The Daily Downvote.
It's important that people who are seious about the platform take action to help keep quality, original content a priority. The issue of stolen/spam content is only going to get worse as more people join. They need to incorrporate a button or form for plagiarized content.
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Perhaps the other steemit blogger simply cut and paste the articles or even videos from the original authors, without them knowing it ?
Or perhaps the "identity thieves" lack of original ideas to post up, rather than using other people's contents ?
He or she should get the permission from the original author in the event he or she would like to use the articles, photos or even videos.
OR perhaps these are hot and popular topics in the past ? Brought up again, to get more upvotes and gain some cents from these...
What say you ?
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Looks pretty blatant. It doesn't take anything to post a credit for a video or photos. So it looks intentional.
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Pretty angry, I'd imagine. It's theft.
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Make sure that the rules are stated clearly for new users too :) Edit: They're not even 'rules' really. More like guidelines. Damn I respect it so much though. On a side note, just heard about that 'radiosteem' idea the other day and thought about what it could do for the music industry. Revolutionary shit.
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With a little thought it would be pretty easy to remove the spammers you are referring to.
But I do feel that user moderation is the most sensible way to go, after all why would you create an incentivised, decentralised social media platform and then pay moderators to remove content.
User incentivised moderation could be the answer if a good way of implementation could be found
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