In essence the crime here is because I stated I didn't own the rights
We do not support monetizing unoriginal content that amounts to little more than changing the order/spelling of words (a.k.a. plagiarism). This is especially true in regards to the misuse of content owned by Gods Unchained, directly.
This is crap to me.
Whether or not you believe "this is crap" is irrelevant in this case. The entire reason you were receiving upvotes/curation was because it was believed you were creating this lore on your own and thus owned the rights for posting it.
We did not mute your account, entirely, because we understand we initially missed the issue. You only received a warning because we recognize you put effort into these posts, even if it wasn't what we originally thought.
I never stated I owned this stories and I made sure I always state that on my every post.
Unfortunately, this isn't true as is evident by the following:
- Your first and second posts of this nature were based on Chapter 1: Citadel of the Gods. You didn't site your source in the original post, and you recycled the post a week later (this time with a source).
- The next two posts in the series (Lysander & Neferu) have no mention of their original stories.
- You added a source for the next post, but "All resources are found HERE" is a tad misleading. In no way does it indicate that you are rewriting the lore posts provided by the GU team.
We also noticed you've been voting for your own posts while largely ignoring posts from others in the Gods Unchained community. This is generally frowned upon for Hive, as a whole, and we are focused on encouraging engagement between members of our community.
TL;DR - Despite your protest, there are patterns in your posting that strongly suggest you're attempting to "farm" upvotes from the generosity of the Gods Unchained community. We've given you the opportunity to prove us wrong, but we will not be reversing our stance on these rehashed lore posts.
There's a community called Open Mic where people sing songs(not original) and they get voted for that, which I'm sure is still under the control of this community, that isn't a problem? Well if it's not allowed it's not allowed but the down part is having to down vote all of my previous post, that for me is low. You speak of Plagiarism, I never claimed ownership of the contents, I always made sure I put in my references. I never copied and pasted it. Some of this same post made it to the top post in this community, you talk about monetising, I've created some tutorials that weren't curated but made it to the top post, you didn't see me complain about that because the purpose was serve which is reaching audience that found it useful. Many players here make video post, which nobody watches but get curated all the same. I thought the overall goal was to promote the gods unchained gaming, and how do you do that without actually promoting it in totality. Before now there are players who aren't aware of this back stories.
Where is the value and that you should be rewarded for "rewriting existing lore in "your own words"" as you say which is just a fancy word of saying you're just spinning content. Do you think people value that? Oh yeah, let me read how admiralsp rewrote the existing lore content instead of one produced by a professional with proper grammar.
We were under the assumption you were generating these from scratch not just rewriting content which is frowned upon not just on Hive but literally in any school you go to already at a young age. It's not much different from direct plagiarising and honestly if I could I'd downvote all the posts so you're lucky to have gotten away with it due to non of the curators being that interested in Lore and being aware there already existed some from the GU team.
This isn't a way to "promote" the original lore, you can just make a post linking to them and saying some of your own words what you think about it, not rewriting it and getting rewarded for something someone else has created. That's closer to theft.
I vote for post I find useful, and I also make comments, otherwise I wouldn't have been among the top active users recently published. Like I said if it's not allowed it's not allowed. A simple warning would have been enough, but going back to downvote all my previous post is low, I don't know maybe you're trying to send a message to others and I ask myself to what end. Smh
Let me be abundantly clear:
Upvoting your own posts is self-serving and does nothing for the community.
Unfortunately, it's not something strictly disallowed by Hive, so we only make note of it when considering other activities alongside it. It's a red flag that prompts us to pay closer attention to a poster's other activities.
In your case, you were rehashing content belonging to the Gods Unchained team. There is no way around that fact.
In response to your other comment, it is not the same as vocalists/musicians doing covers of music, because their individual voice is unique to them and thus adds to the original work. There are still very strict Intellectual Property rules that exist for governing royalties that must be followed. Whether or not other communities follow those rules has no bearing on whether or now we enforce a strict no-tolerance policy for plagiarism of any kind.
A warning has been provided.
What you did was wrong, whether you realized it or not at the time. Your "punishment" was to lose what you gained from something we do not allow in this community. Thieves are not allowed to keep what they stole when caught just like you are not allowed to keep the curation rewards you received for plagiarizing GU lore when discovered.
The difference is we didn't remove you from the community, entirely, and future posts will not be downvoted provided they are original content made by you.
Goes to show that some people only focus on the rewards. Rather than being glad he's only getting off with a warning over something that should be obvious to most people not to do, he's mad that his pending post rewards got removed. Instead of apologizing that it's cost ocd countless of curation rewards its delegators are losing out on cause of him and ocd being the main provider of the rewards and trail, he's pissed he can't continue milking rewards for rewriting content. Shameless tbh.
Downvotes often show people's true colors.
You are allowed to see things from a point of view and you might be right, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong, as it was never my intention to make people believe I owned the original articles. You had replied and I said if it isn't allowed then it's not allowed. When I was corrected on one of my post, I accepted it and noted it.
On this page there aren't any do's and don'ts at least none that I know of. These articles you are all chastising me for, it wasn't as if I copied and pasted them, these are stories I found interesting and I felt the need to share,and if you read the original and compare with mine, you would realise the amount of work I put in. I never claimed ownership yet you start liking my articles to that of theft (that's a big insult) all for what? You said I admitted not owning the articles somewhere else, like you messaged me privately? I said the post weren't mine on one of my post comments when asked. Even I later switched to highlighting my source by making it bold, because I felt maybe people were getting the wrong idea.
We are humans and there's no one here that won't feel bad in this same situation.
I see something that interests me I want to share it. If there was a prior warning and I continued doing same, then actions taken would have been justified. Many of us are new to hive. We all have our understanding of things. I won't talk about this issue again.
To any user that I might have led on to thinking I owned this series I'm truly sorry, they aren't mine.