Hi Arthur,
I appreciate you adding a critical note. I read back your comments on this post and on other users' comments where you encourage them to flag and let it sink in. I can see what your concern is.
What I'm thinking now regarding your 'fight' against @photomatcher:
- He seems open to discussion seeing his comments on other users suggestions. Maybe start with that? Asking your questions and seeing the respons first?
- It is annoying to see users get these 'scare comments' if they're innocent, and this is mostly caused by the pace with which the bot is testing now. I understand the need for testing though, so I would give a user I know nothing about the benefit of the doubt. (I am by the way suspecting this is a longer term user trying out a bot on a fresh account, but of course, I can also not be sure about that.)
In the big scheme of things I do see the problem with Plagiarism as one of the biggest on Steemit. I use Pinterest, for example, and on that website I sometimes get an e-mail saying 'I'm sorry, the pin you saved on your account has to be removed for legal reasons'... And 'non-blockchain blogs' get sued all the time for not appropriately crediting the use of images, even professional blogs (which I suspect will not be the biggest part of Steemit users in the end.) What does it mean for Steemit once plagiarised things get locked (after 7 days) in the blockchain? Who is responsible for it, who can remove/edit?
Anyway, lots of questions, I'd like to have a discussion on it, especially if we can do that in a civilised and calm manner. I do hope @photomatcher will join in and shed some light on the concerns mentioned in yours and my comments.
Thank you for your feedback, I just stopped the bot for now, read here for an explanation.
Of course I'm always open for discussion and I would love to learn from anyone of you about how to take on the subject of copyright and plagiarism. I believe we all benefit on this platform from discouraging people that try to make some quick money with content that they have no rights to use.
So for now there's space for much improvement on the bot and I will develop further until I'm confident enough to announce and test the new version. Thanks again for all the feedback!
Hi, thanks for responding and being open for feedback :-) It's good to test and then take time to develop further! I'd love to hear your adaptations on the next version and will always give my feedback.
Even though English is not my first language I'm very sensitive to 'tone', so if you want me to five feedback on the tone of the automated text I'd gladly do so. For now / the first rounds at least, I would suggest adding a sentence like 'Photomatcher Bot is still in beta testing, so if I made a mistake by suggesting your picture is not yours please let me know by adding a comment to [link to dedicated feedback article]'
Good luck on developing!