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hive.blog has optional mute lists you can subscribe to to solve the "spam problem".

i don't understand why everyone's so fired up about people paraphrasing articles.

isn't that like 90% of twitter and facebook ??

doesn't every newsroom on earth paraphrase the associated press or reuters or bloomberg ??

if a corporation posts the exact same image and text a thousand times, isn't that "spam" ??

why doesn't @hivewatchers consider memes and gifs "copyrighted material" ??

I don't care about something rephrased. I report clear plagiarims when people just copy past text from the web. Why some should write their original content and get nothing from that, but a spammer just by copy pasting and looking so great should get it all. The reward people is limited and if it will given all to spamers, nothing will be left to original content. About pictures, there are so many websites with free pictures and gifs to use.

what would you call this ?
https://hive.blog/leofinance/@hivewatcher/quwvr8

And,

most gifs, especially from giphy.com are not licensed and no "attribution" is provided, even though they contain copyrighted images.

And,

copying an article and reposting it (with attribution) is simply news aggregation (like google news or yahoo news) which could also be called "curation".

people do this on twitter and facebook all day without fear of being "blacklisted" or "downvoted into oblivion".

Also, "original content" is often BORING.

Why should we be like facebook ? I didn't get it.

the hive kings are always ranting about how they want HIVE to be just as popular as facebook and twitter, that's why i mention them.

onboarding, onboarding, onboarding.

Why do you think @phusionphil downvoted you?

I downvoted him for insulting my sovereignty with the Hive discord groups, suggesting I should join something as repulsive as a social club that has a status quo, is offensive to me.

So, not something they could have predicted.

Lol was he mad that I didn't warn him and provide him with a ToS for this decentralized blockchain lol

DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD WISH THEM TO DO UNTO YOU

If I was downvoted because of the picture, here is the source : https://pixabay.com/ru/photos/%d1%88%d0%b0%d0%bc%d0%b0%d0%bd-%d0%b4%d1%83%d1%85%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%bd%d1%8b%d0%b5-%d0%b4%d1%83%d1%85-%d0%bf%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b9-%d0%bc%d0%b0%d0%b3%d0%b8%d1%8f-2897334/

They also say that's :

All are free for commercial use and no attribution required!

So, why I should add the source or not use it ? It's free to use !

Do you know what's Creative Commons ?

So, why I should add the source or not use it ? It's free to use !

I agree, but I've also seen @hivewatchers address pixabay images specifically, and they say that you need a link, even for CCZERO, if only to prove that you have not simply forgotten to post the "attribution" link.

If that's needed from @hivewatchers to make it easy for them to check posts, I will add the link. I have no problem doing that.

That's another problem.

People get downvoted and they don't know why.