One of the reasons why there is little interest in SportsTalkSocial is the price of the token.
Most bloggers here keep powering-down at regular intervals and selling most, if not all, their earnings regularly. This behavior impacts the price of the token negatively as it puts constant sell pressure on the price. Besides it also affects investors in Sports token, like me, as our investments keeps dropping in value. Worst still, it is the same people we vote who keep putting selling pressure on the token and devalue our investments. We, the investors, are poking our own eyes by voting for these people!
The other reason is the widespread image plagiarism/copyright infringements in SportsTalkSocial. I have asked three retired sports journalists/writers to become members in SportsTalkSocial and all of them refused after looking at the poor quality of the platform, in particular, the widespread image plagiarism/copyright infringements.
In fact there are many good sports writers in SportTalkSocial community but they are inactive, for one reason or another. Unfortunately, imho many of these good writers also don't know much about copyright and are constant copywrite infringers. Many are under the impression that simply citing the source of the copyrighted image absolves them of copyright infringement! Even HiveWatchers thinks so and encourages such practice. The truth is citing the source of the image is a cure for plagiarism but not copyright infringement. They would do well to read-up the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement.
I think there is a way forward. That is by addressing the above two issues. If you are interested and wish to know more and want to be part of the solution let me know.
Thanks for reading my content.
I actually thought no one would bother reading.
I am really sorry for the lose of investment, but i don't still know why people chooses to do the wrong thing.
Regarding the issue of sourcing a copyright image or content, which is very wrong, i still don't know why writers chooses to do that. While writing my content yesterday, i took my time to search for an image that won't implicate my post, and i have been doing this for some time now.
I really want to be part of the solution, and i also want to learn more.
Sportstalksocial must stand tall.
I guess i now understand the reason why certain people keeps using copyright photos.
Writing a post which is sport related requires pictures of the sport athlete, which helps to captivate interest from readers.
Most of this pictures are always copyright, and they ain't free for use. I guess that's why i av n't write something few days back.
Is there an alternative to using such image @fit.zone ?.
Although it is difficult to find sports related free images, you can with some effort find Creative Commons Images from two sources:
"Google Image Search>>Your Search Term>>Tools>>Usage Rights>>Creative Commons Images."
If you are using this method be sure to check and verify that these images are indeed Creative Commons Images, before proceeding. Google does list commercial images (not free images) by error under that search. Creative Commons also has specific attribution requirement, which you must follow.
Alternatively, design yourself a Sports Themed Banner as some bloggers are already doing for all their posts. If you are not good at designing then you could ask one or more of the bloggers in the Arts related communities for help for a small fee. You could submit a classified ad in the HiveList Classifieds Community and ask for help from these designers, tagging some of them you have already identified. One such person who could possibly help is @vickoly.
You can also search for these designers in https://peakd.com/created/diy.
Finally, as a last choice use copyrighted images if you are sure your use of the images falls within the ambit of Fair Use doctrine. If you use this method make sure you include the Fair Use Notice at the end of your blog post as mentioned in the Rules.
Looking out for the link for the 50m Sports Talk Power Club. Please, furnish me.