1. we are living in a bubble after all...
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3. > I'm not into anti-abuse anymore
By personal experience, you can try and leave it but the anti-abuse gets your soul and won't let you stay out of it (it means we care for the chain).
4. My ratio is 20/80 if your content is 80% original you can have 20% copy/paste (properly source) more than that is trying to monetize with content that isn't yours and abuse in my eyes.
5. What do you think of content that doesn't get even 1 upvote at all, in my opinion, you had your chance for a whole 7 days, and either the community didn't think of it good enough to be rewarded or you didn't do the promotion job you should have done to get it to be seen. But I know some people think this is not fair.
Not everything is discovered. This is less true these days with curation changes that encourages better behavior means curators are more desperate for good content to upvote as they are less likely to be upvoting their own content.