If people use text, images, audio or video in their posts that has an appropriate licence then that is okay with me as long as they add value to it with something original, as this post did. Profiting purely from the works of others is not acceptable.

So I will say again that this post had an original element and the copied text was legal as well as being acknowledged as sourced elsewhere.

If you think that using free-to-use/public domain content without sourcing to exploit Hive should be accepted, then you are part of the problem.

Please do not put words in my mouth that were never there. Some licences do not require credit to be given, but on Hive the copied works should not be claimed by others. That is obvious.

I have said many times that you are doing a difficult, but necessary, job that you may not get full credit for. I just don't like to see people driven off Hive for transgressions they may not even be aware of. That is why I take the time to step in and try to coach them to a better path. It's because I give a shit. I know others would just give up, but I'm stubborn like that. I really want to see Hive prosper, but given the tiny size of the community we cannot afford to lose people who could give it more value.

Amy is part of communities elsewhere that outnumber the entire active population of Hive. If she goes there saying 'Hive is a pile of shit' then we lose.

There is a difference between the misguided and the malicious, even if it is hard to detect sometimes. I may be fooled at times and so may you.

I think I have said enough and I have other things to do.