However it has also been brought to our attention that many of these posts are acts of plagiarism.

After looking into this matter the following facts have been found:

The acts of plagiarism on posts using out #steemchurch tag are being done by people who are not members of Steem Church in any way, manner or form.

Some may have to date had contact with our members and even tried to or in fact joined our Discord server, however they as such are not automatically “members”. We do consider ourselves to be promoting the true meaning of the word and term “Church” which is “An assembly of Christians” without any of the doctrines that many of the organizations out there who use this term in their name.

As such all Christians are more than welcome to Steem Church. An assembly of Christians who are on our Steem blockchain.

As our name clearly defines, we do as Steemians have the responsibility to ensure not only that our #steemchurch tag is not abused or as may be the case with some, used for malicious purposes, but also to ensure we help build our Steemian societies and our blockchain in the best and most positive of ways.

So I am issuing this CALL TO ACTION:

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All members of Steem Church as responsible Steemians are to take the following actions when they suspect any form of abuse or malicious behaviour on posts using our #steemchurch tag:

• If the post is a case of plagiarism, it must be reported to Steem Court via the dedicated room in our Steem Church Discord server. Likewise as responsible Steemians, the post will BE REPORTED TO STEEM CLEANERS after proper investigation.

• If the post has spam comments in its thread, please take one of the following actions:

● Nicely tell and explain to our fellow Steemian that his/her actions are not doing any good as it is Spam. Ask them to please stop doing this and to inform themselves about why this type of behaviour is not acceptable.

● If you see that it is an abuser, an account using an automated bot to beg for votes etc. Then PLEASE FLAG THE COMMENT.

Flagging is a tool that is here to be used and not abused. It is fully acceptable and in fact expected from us to use this tool in this type of situation. You can also inform SteemCourt about this user account, so that necessary actions that the court have in place so as to ensure this user stops doing this.

SteemChurch members have to take the responsibilities that we have very seriously. We have to ensure that we are proactive contributors to our ecosystem.

FURTHER MORE:

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Steem Court is asking for volunteers to help ensure this type of behaviour by those users using our #steemchurch tag is taken care of more efficiently in future.

We need a TEAM of Steemians who are willing to dedicate some of their time each day to type in the tag #steemchurch and to review the posts.

So that any potentially unacceptable behaviour is approached in an orderly and efficient manner by Steem Court and if need be by Steem Cleaners.

If you are willing to HELP with this effort to ensure our #steemchurch tag does not get abused by anyone, please contact me on Discord.

This will be one of the most important TEAMS within our Steem Church community, because it shall be actively contributing to the quality of our Steem ecosystem and to the quality of posts that use our #steemchurch tag.

Thank you for reading and please resteem this post.

The more Steemians who partake in our efforts, no matter if they are members of Steem Church or not, the better it shall be for everyone.

Look forward to hearing from you and working with you in the true hope that we can all help make our opportunities here on Steem better for everyone.

STEEMCOURT - LIBERTY IN THE CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM

signed:Chief Justice