Hi Dear Steem Fellows,

I think some people don't really understand the rules about creating content on Steemit. I wouldn't like to blame anybody as you can make your own testing yourself about all mistakes you could do in your life, but i just wanted to point out the fact that too many posts on Steemit are often copy/pasted content located elsewhere on the World Wide Web.

Of course , you're not infringing the law if you display correctly the url source of the content you want to share and give all credentials it requires to its author name, but this is exactly as if you were showing to someone in a public space a magazine's review you didn't do yourself and found somewhere else.

In other words, this is boring for your readers and it won't make you great rewards for that. That's what i call the strategy of the " Copycat Content Creator" and i didn't find it elsewhere on the Web. I found it everywhere !

What are consequences of this strategy ?

• You don't add value to others.
• You don't add value to yourself.
• You didn't understand that Google is hungry only of genuine quality content.
• You will not get paid so much (that means, in fact, not at all!).
• You're at high risk to lose all your reputation (or even worse getting ban and going down self-sabotaging yourself).

So, what should you do instead ?

The answer is quite simple. Do like me. Find a problem, give your solution(s) ! But indeed, on the long run, it will make you more work and effort to put in. But it will have also the exact opposite consequences because then :

• You'll add value to yourself by adding value to others.
• You understand clearly that Steemit is hungry of genuine and top quality content ( as Google ) !
• You will get paid because you help your other Steem fellows, sis and bros to understand good practices.
• You have a great opportunity to increase your reputation as well as your Steem Power to gain more authority and more followers on the long run.

Finally, rewrite the content you want to share. That way you create your own genuine and top quality content...