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I'll begin saying that a particular characteristic of Steemit that attracted me when I was investigating about it was that I saw a lot of people fighting for their rights of having the authority of the content they produced. I said "Hm! Tha's pretty good!", because I share that point of view.
If you come up with a joke, and thanks to that joke a stand-up comedian can do a show, and thanks to that show that stand-up comedian gets paid, THEN... You should get recognition for that, for adding value to another person. Simple principles that talk about social relationships through the importance of value in our current world. We are no longer cavemen, people, we have more complicated social interactions because of technology.
To be put in simpler words, it was a possible promise of community, interaction, creativity, and authority.
It's obviously different when you go to Source and see a lot of posts about things so superficial and you think maybe that's all that the current Internet has to offer to mankind. But then you find something different, something that smells like a new car still, with high technology and Pro-Decentralization with a cryptocurrency flag, it said new and better in each of its spaces. Of course, you decide to try it because why not, as I always say "if there's a possibility is worth to be considered".
Steemit is still a mystery to me, as a digital space of social relationships through the authority of creativity. But I decided to start unscrambling it. So I entered a contest. I won't name anybody or the contest itself because I don't want to start a fight, I just want you to listen to my story.
The contest was about telling an anecdote, pretty much my jam, an easy thing to do for me, the only difficulty is that I had to write it in my second language: English, but since I decided I was gonna work harder this year, I took the challenge, and I started remembering through my past life a funny anecdote to tell, and do it in the right way (You're in a writing-based social network, c'mon put some effort in real writing...)
I elaborated my story very carefully to cover all the details worth remarking, and so I sent my entry. Days past and other people sent their entries, some were really funny, some othere were not, but every other is competition so you still compete with other people for the prize, basic rules of contests I thought.
Someone sent an entry that seemed funny to me at first, seconds later I found it familiar so I kept reading it over and over. Till the Eureka moment came, I recognised the anecdote because I had already seen it before, or to be more precise, heard it. Then I had that thing on your brain that tells you that you know the connection between 2 points of the story but don't know which of them are. I couldn't recognise it because that information was presented to me as a different form of communication, audiovisuals. But since I read it, I didn't had the sound of it.
Conclusion: The anecdote sent by a participant of the contest was exactly the same as an anecdote in a video of one of my favorite audiovisual content creator.
I know what you're thinking but pay attention to this: Imagine your favorite music artist, ok, 3 seconds, ok now imagine your favorite song from that artist...yeah let it sink into you, ok, sing the song even if you want to...
Done? Now Imagine that an artist that you don't even know it existed said that he is the author of that song and makes a movie about it (and in such extension violating the rights of the real creator of the song). You wouldn't like it, would you? I mean, as a fan of that artist.
I thought talking with the host of the contest directly was too hard at first, so I decided to go polite but sincere the first time with the person who pretended to steal another person's authority of content. I copied the Youtube link and then I sent it to this person with a message that pretty much said:
I didn't know what I wanted to get, but that night I went to bed knowing that I had done well. But I ended up getting not good or bad things because I didn't get anything. I don't know if the person at least saw the message but I'm pretty sure he didn't reply. After that I decided to wait at the end of the contest, maybe he wouldn't be one of the winners. And I was wrong again.
There were 19 different entries for the contest counting mine and the other person's. It was a contest for various winners but I can say the number was below 5, so there was a probability of 1 in 4 to be a winner for the contest. And this person who pretended to steal someone else's real story was one of them, I couldn't believe my odds.
I then talked with the host of the contest and said something like:
I am still waiting for that reply...The host of the contest didn't do anything. He acted exactly like the person I contacted because of the problem of authority, I don't even know if he got the message but pretty sure he didn't reply.
At the end I saw that the person got the prize (everything is registered forever in the blockchain isn't it?) I felt a little dissapointed, but feeling dissapointed doesn't fix a community. What does it is being better. That day I made myself the promise to always be Pro-Author, I cannot assure you I can cover all the cases of plagiarism, but at least from me my fellow Steemians, will have someone that'll always try extra hard to give proper authority addressing.
Hello everybody, thank you so much if you read till this part, it means a lot to me since I am putting real effort in creating content here. I want to test the creative limits of Steemit. Special thanks to @muratkbesiroglu for creating this article Source that has helped me a lot to understand this social network, and to @javicabrera for teaching me a little bit of HTML to address the pictures. Also I wanna remind you of the Company that I'm working with, @elcoincenter, GO CHECK IT OUT!
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