It came to my attention several days ago that there is a lot of plagiarism and spam in the NSFW category of posts. People are copy/pasting images from various other websites, failing to offer attribution, and often then using bidbots to increase the profits from their lazy behavior. The NSFW tag serves as a barrier to keep most users from ever noticing this, too. I have spent a considerable amount of steem power countering their illicit profits in order to balance the reward pool away from rewarding such spam, but some spammers are responding with flags on my posts rather than by rectifying their errors.
Compounding this problem, @partiko actually defends such plagiarism and spam as if it is somehow an exercise of free speech rather than acknowledging the flaw in offering a chance to auto-vote anything and everything their app users post and making an effort to stop rewarding misbehavior.
We are on the bleeding edge of technology. It is our responsibility to promote ethical behavior on the blockchain and discourage unethical behavior. No outside force is going to do that, and the Steemit developers don't seem to care. Do support @steemcleaners, @steemflagrewards, and @cheetah, because they are trying to help us keep Steemit from becoming just another internet wasteland of spam. Don't reward the people like @partiko who support spammers, or people like @chbartist who abuse bid bots to buy a place on the trending page every day.
Remember, If you still want to share copy/pasted content,
- Provide attribution to the original creator.
- Decline payout unless you are using such material within the context of your own original content, such as an image for illustration.
- Try to use CC0 or public domain content if possible, but still link to the source as a matter of courtesy.
This is basic ethical behavior. We need to set the standard so the minnows joining our platform have a better example to follow. It's not a matter of mere legality, but one of integrity. Otherwise, Steem will continue to spiral into altcoin obscurity.
Do you generally flag people with way less steem power than you? Or just poor people
I'm a lurker now but I think the color challenge posts are fairly pointless too....
Post a picture of a red apple on the red day or a Moo Cow and get rewards.
https://steemit.com/colorchallenge/@liberyworms/color-challenge-monday-red
Will you start flagging those ones too?
Personal question - do you masturbate or is masturbation a sin or unethical for you?
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Why are you deliberately refusing to understand the very clear and simple argument I have been making about your posts being spam and plagiarism? If all you are doing is sharing a copy/pasted image someone else created, decline payout and offer proper attribution links.
https://www.plagiarism.org/article/what-is-plagiarism
Now stop trying to dodge the issue by trying to re-focus the discussion to your outlandish speculation. Your behavior is downright juvenile.
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I'll try better next times in my post. I do take your points, if you think my posts are wasteful you will target them. I get it.
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Woah, talk about a real issue. I hope partiko can also get their shiz together. Thanks for letting us know about this crucial information. It's sad to see copyrighted post.
#makesteembetter
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Who died and made you pope? Is this your attempt at calling the imaginary steem police? The blockchain allows it, so if you're so concerned buy a shitload of steem and flag what you see as unethical. Before you jump my shit, I just want to say while I'm not advocating this shit, calling out a front end dapp like @partiko makes you look well, silly, and ignorant. How are they responsible for maintaining integrity? Why have you singled out such a well liked and appreciated part of the blockchain ? I assure you this will backfire, oh yeah I think you're the same person that I saw flagging pics of nudes bc you see yourself as the keeper of morality lol.. Get a life
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I claimed the title as a joke. I am not arguing from personal authority, but from a consistant position of ethics. No one is above criticism, and I mention @partiko because I have had an extensive argument with that user. What specific part of my post offends your sensibilities? Cut the sophistry and start arguing without fallacious nonsense. I was flagging people for spam and plagiarism, and only tangentially for porn because that is what I found people spamming and plagiarizing.
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My sensibilities aren't offended, and I wouldn't call my pointing out that ethics aren't applicable in an ecosystem of economics built on the principles that the strong can eat the weak and all is fair in the love and war of anarcho capitalism as deceptive or false..Clearly, this is a personal issue more than anything between you and I assume the creator of partiko.
I don't think it benefits any spammers to hide in NSFW as you claim, it's a bit of a contradiction and furthermore it's a tiny segment of the rewards pool compared to others. I can't stand chbartist self help garbage but if they choose to work this system to obsessively appear in trending and profit we must accept the flawed game we signed up for.
Look, I appreciate that you're interested in the future of steem and want ethical behavior to be rewarded but your points are moot as there is nothing pursuant being that nobody is doing anything not maintained and supported by this blockchain. Maybe it's destined to collapse under the weight of its absurdity, perhaps it's a sophisticated scam that only a handful of people are aware of. The important thing is its an infantile experiment and malleable so long as the stakeholders have faith that the system can correct itself with the implementation of a more evolved economic incentive formula.. For now it's bidbots and witnesses we can choose to trust or not..
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Contradiction in terms.
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-editorial-collective-an-anarchist-faq#toc7
I signed up before linear rewards, I'd like to go back to proof of brain.
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Clearly it's a contradiction in terms, nevertheless it best describes the platform here. Democracy and capitalism are also not synonymous yet there is a pseudo decentralized democratic process here.
Fair enough you signed up before linear rewards but that's ancient history, and you still being active is basically your present consent. I'd like many things to be different but I'm of little to no value on the blockchain. The powers that be adopted this current system and for them it's working and I'm quite positive they're not going back to the way it used to be..
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Yeah, it will probably take a fork to get the abusers up off us.
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Calling something a contradiction and then deliberately disregarding the definitions actually used isn't intellectual honesty.
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Right, now who do we blame, the one that has been misdirected, or the one that cites sources?
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Double speak is the universal language
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Yes, the biggest flaw of Steem is the tragedy of the commons scenario its distribution system creates. But we have the choice to remain silent about abuse, participate in the abuse, or speak out. I chose option 3.
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Option 4 figure out how to do more than speak out, I'm sure if enough people collectively demand change and throw money at a solution things will be adjusted appropriately... Speaking out is effective with action and leverage but fortunately you're free to use your RC as you please..maybe someone with power will listen, but being that they're all in bed with freedom the anonymous investor any changes that attempt to rock the boat will be difficult to say the least.
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ouch
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Don't worry @jacobtothe
You do have a life.
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And i am here for you as a friend
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If you are really here for me as a friend, you will stop being a spammer and a plagiarist.
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