I have huge respect to the work @hivewatchers do and they are needed in a platform like Hive. I myself tried to defend a friend who just joined the platform a couple of weeks ago and got blacklisted immediately for plagiarism. He did perform plagiarism but a warning would be fair instead of blacklisting, especially for new users.
One more thing I would like to add is that this person I tried defending did write an honest "Apology" post today and the only answer he got was a "X" at his message on the Hivewatchers Discord channel. No instruction or advices about what he has to do to get of the blacklist.
Something must change in the way Hivewatchers operate.
As I stated I higly respect their efforts of keeping Hive clean from trolls and plagiarism but their attitude and replies towards users must definitely change.
Just my 2 cents (actually 10 cents hehehe).
Great post buddy.
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I agree, newcomers should be treated like humans that don't know all the state of the art of posting content. Some slack should be given to first offenders if they are willing to do an apology post and appeal their case in respect.
That will unfortunately make these content creator run on another platform and if asked about the Hive network won't give a good recommendation. Where just an explanation with a warning would have made most good intention people improve on the quality of the content they post.
Agreed! I hope something will change soon.
Who in their right mind thinks its Ok just to rip-off someone else's work, post it on Hive and expect to get rewarded for doing so?
Real content original creators have no issues.
Who in their right mind thinks everyone knows every rules and every laws of every systems in which they navigate ?
I'm just saying learning is part of the on boarding process and people should be given a second chance and be strongly encouraged to respect basic rules.
But sometime the line isn't that clear, a newcomers can do a great article with is 95% original content and put an image of someone else that isn't free tagged as free for use and they don,t think of citing the source because they don't know about it.
My point is : Please educate newcomers instead of nuking them which could result in them just leaving the BlockChain where they could have learned and improve to become a fully original content creator.
We were all newbies and dump on some subjects at some point in life and will probably continue to be on many subject. Maybe it's crystal clear for you, but I would recommend you put yourself in someone else shoes for whom it's not that clear.