Agreed. More has to be done in this regard, and it is a shame that it happens all over the internet too. The line between creating and sharing content has gotten blurrier in this time given what technology can do (Facebook, blogs, personal web sites). Here's one recent article on the problem with images on Steemit:
There is also, I believe, going to be more done to provide Steemit users with a library of free images, and they recently offered some pay to stock photographers:
Since you're new to Steemit, too, you may find this guide to the site that I put together to be helpful. God bless!
Thanks! I will check out both. I'm following you, but can't Upvote, as I did not understand the system and gave out too many votes. Still trying to figure out what I am doing!
You're welcome. And no problem about upvoting. I voted too much at one point and it's been hard to get my voting power back up since. Not many people understand the system when they first get here either :) I'm just starting to get to know it a bit better myself, a little at a time. It didn't seem that complicated to me before I signed up. There's so much having to do with cryptocurrencies and computer technology, though, that I'm not sure I'll be able to learn that much about. Is there anything you're wondering about right now? I might be able to give you some idea what the answer might be or where to find it.
Thanks! You have been so helpful with the link to your help post and the links to @uruiamme. I have signed up for his project. Now I need to educate the Christian community, as I see far too much copyright violation there, and that should not be! Oh, for more than 24 hours in a day! LOL! I have some power back now, so will try to Upvote now! Yeah! I'm going to be very careful now about what I Upvote!
You're welcome! Glad if I can be helpful. And I know what you mean about there not being enough hours in the day :)
I need to print it out and read it the old fashioned way, I think! :-)
I read that you were wondering about steem, SBD and steem power. Here's an article on them that may help some. I was completely mixed up on them too for awhile. I actually went looking at about a dozen people's wallets just to see if I could figure out what was going on but it didn't help much. This video helped some. From what I've learned, steem-backed dollars are about $1 U.S. There's a peg. Payouts are in SBD. The price of steem on the other hand fluctuates. I think one steem right now costs about $1.80. Steem power is like invested steem. It gives you influence here (determines how much your vote is worth) and you can "power it down" (withdraw a certain amount over a certain period. It used to be over 2 years but now is 13 weeks I believe ).
It gets a little easier to understand once you do a little more with it, like send some SBD to people or receive some. You might see that people offer SBD in posts and there are contests that do as well.
Now I'm at the point of starting to look into what to do with this SBD and steem to turn it into USD. THAT is really advanced Steemit, I'm starting to see. There are so many different options and steps, and the directions aren't always in clear English. Everyone seems to do things a little differently too. I'm just trying to learn about it all right now. From what I see, you use an exchange to turn steem/sbd into bitcoin or another coin, and then send those coins to a wallet. I've signed up with coinbase for a wallet and then from there I may see about getting something called a "shift" card, which I believe is a Visa bitcoin card. Whew! I think it may sell your bitcoin into USD as you use it. But so many people here have figured out some system for themselves that I'm encouraged that I will too. There are a lot of posts here giving advice about it and I've just started reading them. Have you figured out how to use your keys yet?
You are so kind. Thanks for helping. :-) I gave you a penny Upvote. LOL! What do you mean about keys?
You only got .001 from me, but hey! Every little counts, and it all adds up in the the end, I guess. I have learned that from microstock. I used to make hundreds and sometimes over a thousand dollars per image licensed, but with microsctock I make pennies and a few dollars here and there from someone who pays for a one time download. It all adds up when there are multiple downloads of an image. I have been doing microstock for only about a year and one image has had over 400 downloads on one site alone! Many of those sales were pretty good ones. This has given me an idea for a blog post :-)
Thank you! It does add up a little bit at a time :) And getting a little bit of a time in life does teach us more about depending on the Lord.
You are so right there! We are where we are because He needs us here! He needs us to know that we can depend on Him no matter what! He always has our best interest at heart!
Amen! He's working all things together for our good!
He is definitely the potter, and we the clay! He uses us however he chooses! :-)