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RE: Self-Plagiarism and Dishonesty on Steemit / Is Self Promotion Okay?

in #abuse7 years ago (edited)

If the same author writes it, then I don't think its a problem at all.Just think as posting on other social medias,
It's kind of promoting my own content utilizing social media platforms.
And I think its allowed on the platform,I've seen steemcleaners stated

Let us know if you are the writer of that content.

or something like that.
no offence!
cheers!! Steem on

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Yep. If you wrote the original content, then you have every right to post it where ever you want. To say that someone should have no opportunity to earn rewards for something they previously posted before steemit came along and enabled people to earn rewards, is illogical. There's far bigger things to worry about here than people sharing their own writing.

Hello @ofc,

I guess that a better question to ask is when we are sharing our work, do readers deserve to know if it was made for Steemit or not?

Yes, You are right.👍🏻

Thank you for your feedback @katteasis,

I agree that self promotion is good to do, to help put yourself out there to a wider audience. However the difference between Steemit and other social media is the ability to be paid for your efforts. Self-Plagiarism I feel should be expressed in a little more detail.

"Word for word copying and pasting from any source."

Is what @steemcleaners determined counts as plagiarism in this post. The article I was referring to did this, with zero new information. If it is okay to profit now from old ideas, then I am okay with this as long as this aspect is clarified as not being a form of abuse.

Mahalo,
@shello

Yeah I think it is good etiquette to state up front if you are reposting older works.

I was pointing this.


profit now from old ideas...

If the ideas are not outdated it doesn't matter whether it's new or old.
When you realize our whole scientific innovations rely on Netwon's Old Theorems.

I'm actually talking about the first thing noted in your picture that

"Copying/Pasting full texts is frowned upon by the community."

Which is excatly what happened. No idea is truly new completely, but there was no innovation made on the authors part either :/