First of all, thanks for stopping by @joshpeterson! I just checked your vlog: great work on teaching new users :-)

One thing that attracted me to the Steemit community last year when I joined was that there was a huge emphasis on original content, and that groups and mechanisms existed to police against plagiarism and content theft.

The core spirit is still the same, but with the fast growing number of active users it gets more complicated to get this under control. That's why it's important to spread the word and also punish those who don't respect the rules. We're all in charge, not only those with higher VP.

I still haven't been to the mountains, that's going to happen in March. I'll definitely publish some videos from the now then :-)

Happy weekend to you and keep publishing the good stuff :-)