As a community, I think when people are outright stealing other people's work, we should flag the shit out of them until they give up and leave.
As a community, I think when people are outright stealing other people's work, we should flag the shit out of them until they give up and leave.
As mush as I agree, it is an endless process as they don't seem to stop even when warned, flagged, scolded... I think there are mental issues...
Flagging plagiarized content like that is all about altruistic punishment. We can and should encourage all Steemians with a significant stake on the platform to flag that shit. We should all sacrifice a small bit of our voting power temporarily to fight that. There is no reason to give up thinking it will never be eradicated. It won't but it can be kept under control. Besides, the community is capable of policing itself in this regard just fine. @emmaventure is not going to get paid for that copypasted post. Problem solved for that post.
One of the best aspects of Steem Power is that it is not a stake only on this blogging platform but a whole ecosystem of decentralized services including Utopian and DTube.
There is already enough attention given in the form of flagging and banlists for use of bots, the real question we need to ask ourselves is who these people are and what are their financial and educational situations and why that plays into their behavior on the blockchain. Because if you really think about it it is mostly because money is hard to come by in many places and educational systems aren't strong in many countries, and they are wasting their time posting, our time is wasted having to determine if it's spam or not, and the network's bandwidth and storage space is wasted transmitting and storing all of the garbage.
If we flag every last spam post and beggar for eternity then guess what, there will still be poor people on this earth. It is only a part of the solution. Flagging is essentially a big stick that you're running around hitting people over the head with repeatedly and it doesn't change the nature of their own human needs if they have or know no other ways to earn money. This is part of the reason why I am proposing some initiatives of my own, I have posted some very rough details but I believe that if I get this right then we can take a step in the right direction in offering positive incentives to people to not spam endlessly in the hopes of getting a few cents. You need positive reinforcement for good behavior and personal restraint from posting worthless posts in addition to the negative stick of the flaghammer.
I believe that a UBI can work in conjunction with directed charitable activities on the steem platform in order to help alleviate poverty and provide opportunities that would not otherwise be afforded some of these groups in a multi-directional attack on the core issues that these people are facing.
The exact same rules of community building and positive action apply here as in real life. I've seen a positive vibe coming from Nigeria. Ask the Nigerians. They probably have good ideas.
Yeah I'm not saying anyone from any country I listed is inherently making bad posts, and yes many Nigerians on here as a whole have a very positive attitude and bring a lot to the platform.
I agree with you sir
Your thought is right.
My vote doesn't count for much, but I did go to that post and flag the person and made a comment as to why.