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RE: Why does Steemit encourage lifting off articles from web and pasting here?
This is from the Steemit FAQ:
What is @cheetah?
@cheetah is a bot developed by @anyx that scours Steemit for copy/pasted content. Cheetah will not downvote copied content, but it alerts other users to look into it further.Abusive accounts (serial plagiarists or identity thieves, for example) will go on Cheetah’s blacklist. These users will get downvoted by @cheetah accounts when they post.
More information on the @cheetah bot can be found in this post:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cheetah/faq-about-cheetah
Buyer beware, I don't think there's monetary reward for @cheetah's upvote.
Note that it does not say "developed by Steemit."
There are a lot of people who do work to try and improve this platform for the benefit of the entire community.
I don't have issue with copy/paste - I reference/use YouTube videos all the time, but a small attribution will let users know that you have borrowed the information, I hope I am making it clear as to what I mean!
Maybe you can point out to me where Steemit is encouraging people to do this?
The whole idea is that this is an open platform where the community decides, not some centralized almighty Zuckerberg who decides what can & can't be done.
@cheetah points out that material may have come from somewhere else so that the community can decide if the post should be upvoted, flagged or ignored.
it was presumptuous on my part to state 'encouraging' I should have said 'noting but not flagging' ONLY when its not properly referenced...thank you for your note blindsquirl
I understand your frustration.
I don't know how to describe it but, Steemit is a huge departure from what most of us are used to. It's decentralized, there's not any one person or even a core group of people "running" it. And there are a lot of people coming here who don't understand that and are just doing what they've always done. i.e cutting & pasting shit.
There are also people here who have figured out how to game the system and make huge money posting that same shit for consumption by other shitty whale-wanna-be's.
But there's a lot of really good content here too, you've just gotta wade through a lot of shit to find it.
That is a problem from quality perspective in the long run for such a revolutionary platform
Several people have pointed out to me that this is still a Beta version of Steemit. I'm willing to give it time.
If nothing else, it occupies hours and hours of my time composing rants that my family doesn't have to bear the brunt of. ;-)
I am willing to wait too just pointing put so someone takes notice...
Just keep in mind, when you feel like you're wasting your time, that all it takes is for one person to get your message and that makes it all worthwhile.