The standard in the hive is original content every time.
No recycling.
Plagiarism is the ultimate sin.
IF you set rewards to burn or decline for the videos not created and shared by the original author everybody will be much happier.
If you keep posting the videos of others and don't decline or burn rewards, that is an issue sure to bring out the mean in certain whales that care about this issue.
In order to show respect to the others that did this before you, we can treat you no different than we treated them.
That means that your rewards will be downvoted and your reputation will take a hit.
Please stop profiting from the works of others.
The 10% beneficiary is not a problem for me, you bring eyeballs to the content and that has value.
But, those videos by people that don't have accounts, and don't get set as a beneficiary, will likely see their rewards adjusted to the community norm.
Why would we want to reward somebody that can't be bothered to have an account with us?
Nothing personal, just business.
I think you are missing the point of vigilante.tv (and maybe even the token) Look at the creators original content, they are even linking back to their channels and get's paid. By downvoting you are only preventing the content creators from getting paid. For us it is not about earning crypto on the platform at all but creating a video platform where there is actual freedom of speech. Some of the creators we have has been deplatformed on YouTube etc.
What I am not missing is the long history of abusing the reward pool by sockpuppet accounts and the community's response to that.
It's great that you bring new eyes to the content and hive, but not at the expense of authentic content creators already here.
The reward pool is a commons.
The rewards that go to non-authentic content are taken from the lowest earning authentic creators.
That has been deemed not acceptable by the community and we downvote this type of abuse when we find it.
A simple solution to this is to burn, or decline, rewards for videos from creators that can't be bothered to get an account.
If those creators that don't link to us on their other media outlets and can't be bothered to get an account because they don't care about the rewards then why would they object to our zeroing of their rewards?
They don't care about the rewards, right?
Their content will be here whether they get rewards, or not.
Burning/declining rewards really is a simple ask.
It precludes any accusations of ya'll plagiarizing to benefit yourselves and as you say it makes no difference to those not concerned with the rewards.