Greetings fellow Steemit community.
We have run into a serious problem and your feedback is appreciated. Today we posted a link to a documentary on Youtube for educational purposes. We had a comment asking whether it was our content. We never took credit for this material but we felt it valuable enough to share it and that was essentially our response. We then flagged this content for possible trolling of our feed.
Immediately after, the link to the documentary we shared was hidden due to "low ratings". It appears that this person felt the need to censor our content claiming that we were not following community guidelines of identifying who did the work.
We could not disagree more. It is a youtube video that clearly identifies who created the work. Our name is not on it. It should be self-explanatory.
It is no different than the links to hundreds of news-related articles we share on a regular basis. It's self explanatory.
This is a horrible feeling. We came to Steemit to get AWAY from the censorship on other corporate social media platforms. We've never encountered anything like this. Having our content censored because someone appears to have some "Steem Power" accumuluated is the worst kind of Trolling.
We can't just ignore this troll. They are censoring our feed. How can this possibly happen on a platform that promotes itself as an alternative to censorship and other corporate social media.
This incident has us rethinking if Steemit is truly the social media platform we thought it was.
Any advice on this matter is appreciated.
If you wish to see the post in question, you can find it here:
https://steemit.com/news/@justastic/human-extinction-by-2030
Listen, I am really not trying to troll, but I understand that this is a subjective term. I am trying to encourage you to add appropriate attribution when you share the work of others, and it would even be a great idea to add some of your own words explaining why you decided to share what are sharing with us.
Perhaps I did flag you too quickly, but when you flagged my comment suggesting you add attribution, I did remove my upvote from your article and put a flag on your content, which was not appropriately attributed to the author.
If you would like to start getting voting support from other users it would be best to stick to posting content you have significant authorship of. You're clearly capable of doing that.
By posting links or videos here with no original material you're essentially selling other people's work without permission. Regardless of attribution, this will not be well regarded.
It also makes people far less likely to follow you if they're interested in the things you do post about.
You make it sound as though it's all about the money (votes) and less about the sharing of information. If that is the case, then this is not the right platform for us. It was never about the money for us. It was about finding an alternative to the corporate controlled social media and getting away from censorship.