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RE: A Huobi and @Dmania update
We looked up every meme that was rewarded for over a week in steemspeak. There was less than $200 in unoriginal content rewarded.
In the case where people were reusing old memes, who is really damaged by that? I am not saying that I agree with the practice, but to me there has to be some damages involved or else it just seems like trying to control someone else's morality.
I am challenging the statement, out of respect, not in a fighting tone... I would really like to hear your response.
I stopped paying attention to Dmania a few months ago after watching the nonsense and hearing some of the responses from zombee. However, I think when it is Steemit-backed, there should be zero tolerance for plagiarism as it might put them in a bad position legally if copyrights come up. Perhaps this is why they should be careful with their delegations.
When it comes to memes, I don't think they have hundreds of dollars of value in them and I don't think a narrow group at the top should be making so much from them. They were using the delegation like a lottery attractor but, the game was most likely very rigged. If they had spread their vote much wider with a manual curator, they likely wouldn't have got into this mess at all.
I am not a huge defender of memes though as most of the 'good' ones I have ever seen get little more than a chuckle at best. I would rather see 15 lame memes rewarded 10 dollars than 1 lame one get 150.
Thank you for the response. :) It is appreciated. I get the part about SteemIt shouldn't be picking the winners and I know some are concerned with copywrite laws.
As for the rest I just see it as personal preferences, which you have every right to defend.