Hive SBI is an account-based curation program with a deep history on Hive. Members curate others for ongoing support, and they receive their curation rewards back in the form of upvotes on their own content.

While we believe that the choice of which accounts represent quality should be up to the individual, we agree that plagiarism, fraud, and minimal effort content should not receive a slice of the reward pool.

If an account merely cross-posts content that they did not themselves create we are in agreement with @hivewatchers that the content is plagiarism and should not be rewarded. We are adding sehrish-nosheen to our skiplist, so they will not receive any support from Hive SBI, regardless of how many units they are sponsored with.

We have less formal channels with @freecompliments, so have messaged them there, but will formally state for the record that we are discouraging them from sponsoring HSBI units for this type of content.

There is merit in the argument that 'curating content from elsewhere' is normal behavior for social media, but most social media does not include direct monetization for the end user. Hive as a community needs to hold itself to a higher standard.

Monetization of content that was creating by others, without obtaining explicit permission from the creator or adding substantial effort of ones own, such as extensive quotation or fair use doctrine, is plagiarism, illegal in most jurisdictions, and not supported by Hive SBI.