Membership Validation Post by @zology69: 17/05/2021

Hello everyone, I am Hamza(@zology69) and I am making my membership validation post to become a fully active and interactive member of this awesome football community, world of football. I am a Manchester City fan and my favorite player is Aguero. I know, he wasn’t really everyone’s favorite in our most recent loss against Chealsea but all players have bad days😅.

Joining this community, I have taken my time to learn and observe and I have posted nothing but football-related posts and will continue to do so and to abide by the rules of the community. I will continue to participate in contests and make quality posts about match previews and reviews, current team and player forms and interesting things about football gods like the goats.

My understanding of content etiquette is a standard or requirement content must meet before it is considered a viable quality post. It entails rules guiding the posts of the community, what to do and what to avoid. It teaches us to avoid plagiarism and copyright abuse, which the steemit community generally frowns upon and discourages. Rules put in place to avoid these fraudulent and unacceptable acts are citing and referencing.
Plagiarism is taking and using another person’s Idea or work as your own original work without giving them credit by referencing or citing, whether ignorantly or deliberately. Not just the world of football community but the entirety of the steemit community frowns on plagiarism. I have never committed this act as I always cite and reference the copyright-free licensed images I use.

Copyright is a right of authors that gives them ownership to their and protect their work against theft or unauthorized usage. It enforces their custody to their work and gives only them and people they give authorization to exclusive rights to reproduce it.
When you use copyright protected works without authorization or permission from the author of the said work, you’re said to have committed copyright-abuse. Copyright-abuse or infringement calls for penalties and sanctions not just on steemit but in real life.
I find copyright images from google. I’ll show you how I get them and how I properly cite them below.
How I get copyright free images:
• I go to google and I search the picture I want. I am going to be using Manchester City’s emblem for this demonstration. So I search “Manchester city emblem” on google.

• Since I’m looking for a picture, I go to the image category of the search result.

• To obtain copyright-free images I filter using the black-circled button.

• Click on usage rights and select creative common license.

How I cite them:
To cite properly you’ll need two more details of the picture, License and address link to license. This is how you obtain them.
• Click on the desired copyright free picture on google and click license details.

• The license is a combination of letters and numbers.

• The license link is the address link to the license . We can only use an image whose license clearly points that it is free to use.

Now I finally properly cite my image:

1. Image Referencing
   [source](Image address link)
2. Referencing license of image
   [License](license address link)
   This is a complete proper reference using the Manchester City crest.

source
license

In this community a first offender of plagiarism or copyright abuse is warned and muted upon further incidence of offense. Find more of such offenses here.

I am excited to be on this great community of football lovers. I hope this community accepts me as a member and I look forward to validation of my membership of this great community.
I am well aware of the rules of this community as well as the norms of steemit and will abide by them at all times.
I am thankful to @njaywan and @abdulkahargunu for introducing me to this awesome platform.