Taking the money and running

in steem •  6 years ago 

I HAVE HAD IT

After 15 months of almost 100% original content, I post
ONE poem just because I thought it was beautiful and people
Would enjoy it as much as I did.
No, I did not ADD any 'original content' nor did I use the
#originalcontent tag (like I will on this post)
I DID link out to the original poem location
I DID link out to the original author... and still, after

FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY SIX posts

almost all of them EXCLUSIVELY originalcontent
I'm told in disputes on Discord

"We want to encourage original content on the blockchain. This means if you copy something without giving attribution (plagiarism) it's very bad. In your case you gave a source but didn't add something original (Copy/Paste). This is still bad.
So if you want to simply share something like the poem you have two ways of doing it:

  1. You decline the rewards in your settings before posting it. (I didn't know you COULD do that, nor do I know how to do that)
  2. You add your own original content to it. Thoughts about the poem, an explanation why you like it, whatever. At least 50% of original content are recommended.

This one case won't ruin your Steemit account so take it as lesson, move on and do better in the future. I am sure you can do this.
@tsuseer

@tsuseer even 5000 original posts won't make a Copy/Paste look good. I gave you some hints how you are able to share such poems without getting problems. It's up to you if you take them into consideration or not.

So now, I've had it. I can't take the nickel and diming income, the back

Biting users who presume to come and lecture even after the
Change was made.
I'm sick of this madness.
Someone take me by the hand and show me how to take my Steem,
My Steem Power and convert it all into nice hard USD, then I will say
SAYONARA STEEMIT

"Taking the Money and Running"
by
Jerry E Smith
©10/3/2018

Yes, this IS GODDAMNED ORIGINALCONTENT

Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post.
If you enjoyed what you read here, create your account today and start earning FREE STEEM!
Sort Order:  

Come on over to Weku. Use my referral link if you like. https://deals.weku.io/pick_account?referral=cecicastor So far it has been a good experience and you will find many familiar faces over there.

Nikki @coquiunlimited sent me this one
https://steempeak.com/

👍👍

@blacklux asked me if I'd joined weku

  ·  6 years ago (edited)

Oh boy! Sorry to hear this happened to you! Cashing out is easy. You just need to open a coinbase account and use blocktrades to exchange your steem for bitcoin/ethereum/litecoin. Just follow the instructions blocktrades gives you. Or like @rebeccabe said, google it. Is very easy!

I have had a coinbase account for months,
it scares the hell out of me. I don't know what I'm doing.
I wanted to wait until the price came back up over $1 at least.
I still may wait,
but I ain't gonna waste no mo a ma time wit dis
💩
No mo posting
Thanks @blacklux

Coinbase is easy, you just have to follow the instructions... Also haaa!! At the end you joined weku 😅

I joined them all. I will not post a single thing in any of them
I am disgusted. I am betrayed and I am hurt.

Just like tsu!!!

What is a W$?
11 hours ago by khiereidle48W$80.98
4 votes
I don't think I'm up to learning yet another platform, first tsu and steemit have chapped my ass and burned me alive, I can't do it again.
I'll just cash out here, leave FB and move into a cave somewhere

Great Jerry. Glad to see you will try it. So far I have found it a better experience. Fingers crossed.

@cecicastor, how did you get that referral link? I'd like to send one to Nikki, she says she hasn't had any luck in getting in on Weku

You get the referral link when you are signed up. It is posted on the bottom of the cover page of your blog.

I got the cheetah bot once a year or so ago. I put the link for the info on carnations only I messed up the link somehow.

I wrote in comments what happened and moved on.

Sorry, it upset you so much. I am not sure that cheetah one works anymore.

Do both, stay here and also go to Weku @cecicastor is right, you will know everyone over there.

As far as cashing out I have never done it. However, I just googled "How to cash out in Steemit" and some links popped up with instructions.

Sorry this happened Jerry. I know Steemit is strict on plagiarism and not sourcing other’s work.

I DID SOURCE IT!!!

I POSTED LINKS TO THE ORIGIN

I POSTED LINKS TO THE AUTHOR

The only thing I DIDN'T do was say some namby pamby crap about how it made me feel or why I liked it or what philosophical bullshit it meant to the world at large.

I just wanted to share beauty

It seems you have been unjustly reprimanded then. I didn’t see your post.
I thought as long as an article/poem/photo/etc was sourced that was enough.

Jerry, I think you are getting your knickers in a knot over something that is only a warning. Now you know and I know the rules-just now read the rule on sourcing about also adding something to the post from your own thoughts.

15 months I've been here. I had run ins with both steemcleaner and Cheetahbot in the first three months.
I learned about citing proper attribution,
I learned about putting in links to the author
I learned about and HOW to do these things and I have been
SCRUPULOUS about doing those things for the last year.
This crap about adding FIFTY PERCENT of original text?
so I am supposed to post a 17 line poem, and write at least
18 lines of my own blah blah feelings about how it made me
Feel, why I thought it was beautiful (THAT is self evident; the POEM
IS BEAUTIFUL)
It is a MINDLESS regulation, it is stupidly onerous and I'm sick of
Legalism. I am sick of control freaks. I WILL NOT BOW DOWN TO
A POINTLESS CONTROL FREAK REGULATION just for the sake of
Conformity.

Sorry you had this experience. I really hope you stick through it. You are not defined by this

Posted using Partiko Android