I hate plagiarism with a passion.
I call "thieves" and I mean it to all those who steal other people's content from all medium.
As a writer, copywriter and content creator on steemit, I live by this motto:
[ I think @jesta said it in a comment a few weeks ago and it stuck with me. if i'm wrong please correct me in the comments and I will edit].
I do believe that when the interface and accent on steemit will be on HOW important content - GOOD content - is, we will finally see the boom we know it's coming.
We mobilized bots + the whole steemit community to fight plagiarism and that's amazing. Seeing how united and interested in solving this problem the community is makes me feel humbled even be part of it.
I am doing as much as I can. It's hard to always catch them, but it's sweet when we do. Why? Because one mistake is all it takes for the cheater to lose all credibility. With the new reputation system to come, that could be a costly mistake.
Still, one thing remains unclear:
Is reposting an old post of yours from steemit without any[ or barely any] change frowned upon? Not encouraged? Unethical?
I have thought about this and on the one hand, a good article should net you payout for a long time.
I see bloggers that put out good content day in day out for years before they gathered a following and old posts that are quality but had 1 comment in 2012, have now hundreds. This is similar to what happens on steemit right now. A lot of yet undiscovered content creators put out good articles and they get 2$ or even 100$ for posts that maybe will net them thousands in 2 years.
On a platform like wordpress, this happens organically, as new people discover someone they like they go back to read his old articles and leave comments and gather him "views" <--- this is basically money for them.
As it looks now, it's very very difficult cu to go back too much, and then if you do the post will get nothing if it's over 4 weeks old. Is that fair to the writer?
Should we/they be allowed to re-post?
One counter-argument would be that creating new content is the most important thing and as long as one can find a read old posts, the rewards are secondary. Another might be that this could lead to a lot of re-posts and laziness and would lower the quality of content.
Personally, I think this won't be the case... we're all hungry to write new stuff, like it or not.
Yet, no official position on this has yet to be taken and I believe it's important.
I am all for re=posting but again, I'm only asking the community and the devs, what do you guys and gals think?
Can one plagiarize himself? Is it cheating to re-post old posts? Should we be flagged or allowed to do it?
Comment below!