this is deeply unsettling coming from someone in a position of authority on the network.
> In the case of social networking, it is expected and sometimes encouraged for people to post some copyrighted material in the hopes of attracting attention to the material itself and widening the fan base for the content producer. There are limits where this can cause damages to the content producer, but in a social network environment this occurs less than 1 % of the time.
If such a thing was "expected or encouraged" by the content owners, they could grant permission for such use when they published it. Since they, afaict, did not, then its copyright infringement.
TBH, im not on the slack and wasnt involved with this issue at all ,but noticed MY's posts independently probably the same way many did... when @Steemed revealed that MY was employed by one of the biggest stakeholders on steem to take this content and repost it without the owners permission.
thats both a bad reflection on the platform and a bad distribution of blogging reward funds.