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RE: An open letter to the Steemit community on Content, Plagiarism, and the Cheetah bot.
Question: If I find a video online, let's say a YouTube video, that I find informative, funny, or subject to my likes how should the source be cited so as not to fall prey to the bot?
Not all in the steemit community are professional writers and this maybe their first time with social media so I believe education of how to avoid the issues the bot finds unethical is paramount to each Steemian having a joyful experience.
#bot #Steemit #Steemian #education #video #community
If you link something (article/video whatever), and then in your post have your own original thoughts on why you like it, cheetah doesn't comment on you. :)
Like @anyx said, the key is adding something of value. You need to put something of yourself into every post, otherwise it's not very valuable.
I respectfully disagree, especially once the follow feature is fully implemented. A curated feed of carefully selected high quality links can be extremely valuable even without the need to add some sort of comment to each and every one. If I find a poster who consistently identifies and and collects sources from the Internet of interest to me that is worth a lot and it is something I'm willing to pay for, even without added writing. That is especially the case in this format where the added discussion can take place interactively via comments. It doesn't have to be in the original post or from the person making the post.
A site with just links to other places is pretty commodity. It may have a place as part of Steem but if it becomes the core of Steem or highly remunerative, Steem won't be differentiated from reddit etc. It is also hard to curate such posts well. It seems to be worth discouraging now. But your respectful disagreement has made me want to noodle the issue more.
I view it as more a matter of having a place, as you put it, than a core. But I also don't think it (or anything else outside of clear abuse) should be strongly discouraged. Everything is an experiment now and crushing something at an early stage could potentially kill what evolves into something valuable and a big draw. If no one likes these posts and they don't get upvotes, then so be it. I could say likewise about differentiation. There are plenty of blogging sites already too. Steemit has to find its own unique positioning.
@smooth
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What? Man no one pays for anything here, nor does anyone somehow lose money here...Also regarding creation of posts, read This It will provide correct answers....
It was more of a hypothetical. If I'm willing to pay for something it is a strong indication that it has real value.
I realize this post is quite old, but its worthwhile to clarify here. Although i can't speak to the steemit policy on yourtube videos, AFAIK they are fair game to embed without copyright infringement, so long as that feature is not explicitly disabled by the poster on youtube.