Thanks @mrwang, I tried to make similar points to YellowFever4U on his original Steemit post. It's important to differentiate between Steemit the platform/community/currency and steemcleaners. I understand YelloFever4U's frustration, but he could provide better, more targeted criticism of steemcleaners' behavior, rather than blaming Steem itself. Hopefully if he hears it from multiple people, he'll change to be more effective.
Agreed
People should read the whitepaper, specifically:
Eliminating “abuse” is not possible and shouldn’t be the goal. Even those who are attempting to “abuse” the system are still doing work. Any compensation they get for their successful attempts at abuse or collusion is at least as valuable for the purpose of distributing the currency as the make-work system employed by traditional Bitcoin mining or the collusive mining done via mining pools. All that is necessary is to ensure that abuse isn’t so rampant that it undermines the incentive to do real work in support of the community and its currency. The goal of building a community currency is to get more “crabs in the bucket”. Going to extreme measures to eliminate all abuse is like attempting to put a lid on the bucket to prevent a few crabs from escaping and comes at the expense of making it harder to add new crabs to the bucket. It is sufficient to make the walls slippery and give the other crabs sufficient power to prevent others from escaping.Linking youtube content is fair use and granted by the youtube license. Anything that is granted a license to use in any manner you see fit is ok to post on Steem. Steem isn't only about about creating original content, it's about creating work for the blockchain. The whitepaper, which few will read, goes into great detail about this.
Posting any content, of which I have a license, to the blockchain provides value to my followers is in and of itself "original" and provides "work". As long as you are not using content you don't have rights for all legitimate posts should be allowed and ignored by the cleaners.
If I take pictures from NASA of the moon landing and I spend the time to publish them on the Steem blockchain and my followers enjoy the format in which I have displayed it for those users I am doing work and the people who upvote are curating that work for the network.
Did I go to the moon? No. Did I take the pictures myself? No. Did I present them in a way that others can easily see and appreciate them? Yes. Is it OK for me to do that since it is public domain? Yes.