Foundations of vision, accountability, synergy, and transparency are not always built on stone. Sometimes, these foundations form from an idea that we make manifest in reality. It's so fragile that should you whisper, the idea may fade into a dream.
We strengthen our community one step at a time. We address concerns brought up by the community one step at a time. People have their own lives and responsibilities apart from the POB tribe. Some people even initially worked for free because they believe in the ideal.
We're stronger now and moving forward with community development...one step at a time. 
One group in the community I feel we haven't adequately addressed are those new to tribes. The following section is dedicated to them.
Welcome to the HIVE blockchain and whichever community or tribe you choose to join! You're presence and engagement in the blockchain are welcome. It's pretty daunting when first arriving as there is so much to see, experience, and learn. I know I felt that way.
Fortunately, there are paths available to those who first arrive. These groups and articles are open to one and all.
@livinguktaiwan
@leprechaun
@themarkymark
@theterminal: Some staff I've had the pleasure of speaking to include 
@brittandjosie and 
@thekittygirl.
@heyhaveyamet that helps introduce newcomers to the blockchain.The items discussed here are but a small fraction of the engagement and learning available to anyone on the blockchain. They're here to support, and it's a missed opportunity if you don't at least look at the services they offer.
Learning about the blockchain is another essential key to success here. One aspect of learning that is important is regarding behaviors in varying communities. Multiple people work together to engage, teach each other, and protect their community from negative behaviors like fraud.
It exists in every shape or form. Someone once told me to pick a number of times fraud attempts occur on the blockchain and then double or even triple the number. People try to game the system to their advantage and, overall, it hurts the value of the blockchain.
In this section, we will discuss one form of fraud that I find is rampant throughout the blockchain, namely: Plagiarism.
Plagiarism is the deliberate, or unintentional, theft of property, whether it is intellectual or physical. You can plagiarize content and not realize it.
For instance, you can reference some facts you found on the internet but fail to attribute the information you present to your audience. In other words, you don't include your sources, or you fail to indicate to the audience your information originated from somewhere else. Mistakes are understandable.
Given the number of times, however, that intentional acts of fraud and deceit occur daily, responses to plagiarism can be without compassion.
The Plagiarism Organization holds that, at a minimum, the following acts constitute plagiarizing (direct quote):
- Turning in someone else's work as your own
- Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
- Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
- Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
- Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
- Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)
In the Proof of Brain Community, acts of plagiarism can be met with:
When I first started curating, I decided to use the above method because it was very clear to all reviewing. You knew why the downvote occurred and where the information originated. It's quite tedious do to that over and over again, but I feel it's helped others to identify other acts that I could not. Please also follow @Calumam, if you haven't already, to learn of POB's curation team efforts.
You can read more about POB's developing policies from
Do yourself a favor and reference your work. Take the time necessary to ensure you don't get caught in the crossfire.
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