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RE: "The Power of Steem" : Help us teach Cyprus about Steemit!
You should definitely write that article, I've seen a lot of artists complaining and despite the fact that I do my homework on those features, I've always been concerned that my blog could be taken badly. Thankfully I've always had a positive response from the artists.
I'm always hoping to write in a way that's mutually beneficial. I just reached 100 followers but it feels like a lot more, because I get a lot of support.
Plagarism is a big problem though and it's not as easy for the bots to descide whether it's fair use or not. We need to flag these guys to oblivion when they post and it won't last long.
I like a good feature when it is done right.
Here are 5 reasons why I don't think artist are going to have a hard time feeling positive about your features.
You make it clear it is not your work and that the purpose of the feature is to help them gain followers and support
You call the artist by their names, you get to know their life story and fully critique them.
You keep the artists in your past features in future posts... so in a way every time you feature someone new you are actually also doing a mini feature of the artists you already covered every week. It is like a commercial for those artists every couple days.
You properly link - with their names
You engage with the artists themselves and do not expect something in return from them. It is just a pay it forward feature.
If I could make suggestions it would be to perhaps add a watermark over their images that you feature saying "This is (@insertname) work go check them out on steemit. Make sure to scale the image back a bit so people have to go to the original creators work to see it in all its fine glory. Distort the image in some way with a water stamp or size to give people an excuse to go see the original. Or perhaps just a part of the image and say... "This is only a part of the artwork" if you would like to see the rest of it go and give (@insertname) a helping hand with a resteem-upvote-comment.
I have upvoted your suggestions here @artwatch and followed you- brilliant - you should definitely add that to a blog
Thank you - already doing so to you and gave you a resteem on your permaculure post.
Why thank you - glad to have you as a friend
My pleasure.
Yeah, noted, I agree with that. I like the idea of using small images, I think in future I'm planning to write a bit more anyway and then have the featured artist as the second part of the blog or something like that.
Thanks I appreciate your feedback and your support (especially the randowhale upvote).