It does not matter what sort of upbringing you have had – whether you came from a good home, a bad home, had great schooling or terrible schooling. It does not matter whether you have been guided adequately throughout your life or not – we ALL have an inherent understanding of what is fundamentally right or wrong
when it comes to certain things in life…
NO Plagiarism "PITY PARTIES" on Steemit!
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No matter WHO you are, you KNOW these things!
STEALING for instance is WRONG!
There is not a human being alive that can honestly and truthfully stand there and say
that they see nothing wrong with taking something that is not theirs.
So PLEASE for the love of pretty little daisies can somebody tell me HOW and WHY it is that so many people here on Steemit, feel that it is ok to STEAL other people’s content and attempt to use it as their own?! This is just NOT acceptable… not in the real world and not here either!
It doesn’t matter if it’s one paragraph, an entire article, one photo or ten photos – if it is not yours, then you have NO right to turn a blind eye to the truth and pretend that it is!
I do my best to run quite a “tight ship” in our Steemit Bloggers discord community, so I am sadly faced with having to deal with quite a bit of this sort of thing and what REALLY gets under my skin is how easily the individuals plagiarising other peoples content will LIE about it, ENDLESSLY defending themselves, or even worse attempt to create a ”pity party” for themselves, proclaiming their innocence towards being aware that they had done anything wrong in the first place.
Now, I am not talking about someone who has omitted to credit a random image. This is a mistake that many new bloggers make and is something that can be rectified easily enough. I am talking about copying and pasting an entire blog post from somewhere else and then acting SURPRISED when you are confronted about the matter, reported or downvoted…
…You were NOT born yesterday and well, neither was I! lol
As a community, I really feel that the GENUINE content creators of Steemit should stand together when it comes to things like this. I don’t think second chances should be given because there is just simply NO way that such individuals did NOT know that what they were doing was wrong, and the sad reality of the matter is that someone who is brazen enough to do things like this once… will feel no shame in doing it again…
they will simply do it smarter every time!
CLARIFYING PLAGIARISM
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For the sake of clarity on the matter, for anybody confused as to what plagiarism is… here is a rather useful article compliments of http://www.plagiarism.org, which I would suggest you read..
REPORTING PLAGIARISM
For those of you that spot plagiarism on the Steemit platform or have found that your own content has been plagiarised, it is quite an easy thing to deal with… simply tag Cheetah and Steemcleaners in the comments section of the offending post –
along with a link to the original content.
There are so many fantastically talented content creators here on Steemit and availability to endless quality content, I just don’t see why it should be diluted by individuals trying to scam a quick buck…
Until next time...
Much Love from Cape Town, South Africa xxx
