Thank you for your feedback @katteasis,
I agree that self promotion is good to do, to help put yourself out there to a wider audience. However the difference between Steemit and other social media is the ability to be paid for your efforts. Self-Plagiarism I feel should be expressed in a little more detail.
"Word for word copying and pasting from any source."
Is what @steemcleaners determined counts as plagiarism in this post. The article I was referring to did this, with zero new information. If it is okay to profit now from old ideas, then I am okay with this as long as this aspect is clarified as not being a form of abuse.
Mahalo,
@shello
Yeah I think it is good etiquette to state up front if you are reposting older works.
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I was pointing this.

If the ideas are not outdated it doesn't matter whether it's new or old.
When you realize our whole scientific innovations rely on Netwon's Old Theorems.
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I'm actually talking about the first thing noted in your picture that
Which is excatly what happened. No idea is truly new completely, but there was no innovation made on the authors part either :/
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