Firstly despite what @jpiper20 has done I commend him for apologising. This always takes guts and we have all done stupid things.
Further I think it would be better to give the rewards from the original post to the actual creator as @katyakov suggests rather than burning them on promotion.
I like this idea as well. I'm just blown away by these new revelations because I just started following @jpiper20 like a day ago and was like "Cool, he is into wake surfing and is really going hard at making content." Hopefully we can turn this into a positive.
I second this. Don't just burn the money. Give it back to the plagiarized authors or community in some way. Doing it this way will also have more of a positive effect between all people involved too.
He doesn't have any SBD but in the comments of my post I asked him if he would forward whatever rewards he got from plagiarism of Steve's art to the artist in whichever form Steve would like, and invite him to Steemit as well.
Great, so you already had this idea! It could be a good continuation of the story. If @jpiper20 makes a post about his communications with the author and (hopefully!) him joining Steemit, this will be not only a good case for the platform, but probably an interesting read, so a good way for @jpiper20 to earn rewards in a proper way and get back his reputation. Just an idea )
Would not be inviting the original author to Steemit and sending the rewards to him a better solution?
Firstly despite what @jpiper20 has done I commend him for apologising. This always takes guts and we have all done stupid things.
Further I think it would be better to give the rewards from the original post to the actual creator as @katyakov suggests rather than burning them on promotion.
This would be a win-win.
The most effective use of a bad situation is to turn it into something positive.
I like this idea as well. I'm just blown away by these new revelations because I just started following @jpiper20 like a day ago and was like "Cool, he is into wake surfing and is really going hard at making content." Hopefully we can turn this into a positive.
I second this. Don't just burn the money. Give it back to the plagiarized authors or community in some way. Doing it this way will also have more of a positive effect between all people involved too.
He doesn't have any SBD but in the comments of my post I asked him if he would forward whatever rewards he got from plagiarism of Steve's art to the artist in whichever form Steve would like, and invite him to Steemit as well.
Great, so you already had this idea! It could be a good continuation of the story. If @jpiper20 makes a post about his communications with the author and (hopefully!) him joining Steemit, this will be not only a good case for the platform, but probably an interesting read, so a good way for @jpiper20 to earn rewards in a proper way and get back his reputation. Just an idea )
And I agreed to do so.
Good suggestion :D
like most theifs by the time it comes to getting the stuff back it has already gone.