Good point, and I would have downvoted if I didn't see that @dantheman , among others, had upvoted it. This is sending us all mixed messages about what are considered best practices.
Users like you @kevinpham20 are the kind of users I want to promote or curate. Not copy and paste users that are part of a scam to game the system to make millions of dollars off of the original content of others.
Pilfered content from YouTube can be promoted by whales and their lamprey for no effort to the tune of millions of dollars, while the real users are trying to:
- Replicate their "success" by reposting others content, to no avail since they don't have the proper "backing", which wastes our and their time and
- Create their own original content which can take hours or days to complete, all for no recognition.
Feels like a variation of Citizens United. Money is speech. You pay for influence which begets more money and influence.
I really want to see a site where people are civil, are rewarded on merit, and create new original content. That is the promise of Steemit.com, but we aren't close to that right now. It's being exploited in a huge money grab. Hopefully, the ship can right its course before the damage done prevents it from avoiding crashing in to the rocks.