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Why Is Copying bad for Everyone?
- Your Copy-cat Content Will not Be appreciated by the Community as much as if You Work hard and Create your Own Posts!
- You will not make as much $ as if you had created Original Content.
- Write and refine Your Thoughts in Your own words. Even if it doesn't look, sound, feel as good as Copied content, It will be appreciated much More, because people can see that you have put Your Time, and Heart into it!
Copying Images and Gifs.
- Of course you cannot make your own images for every topic, that's not Practical!
- Just at least Make sure to mention Original source of your Images, Gifs!
- Be fair to those who have put their Energy into making those Images and gifs...
just try hard to make our own content. copying other work in this site, will only make the site get worse in the long term i guess.
Hey Nick/@mirage, this is great advice, especially for all the newcomers. The amount of copied content that I have to wade through recently is beginning to get a bit annoying. And that's why if I see copied content I won't follow or upvote. Fully agree unique and original content will have immensely more value here on Steemit, especially over the long run, and now with the new hardfork, we all have less votes to upvote with. I'm already being more picky with my votes. Cheers!
On the contrary... Steve Jobs said it best; Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal'.
Copying is terrible! Sometimes finding the true source of an image you're using is hard. All you have to do is source where you found it (not google or anything)
Or if for whatever reason who lose where it's from you can still mention that it was not an original taken picture or content.
Yea, I completely agree with you.
Newcomers make this mistake (myself included). Giving friendly feedback about the negative side will often open their eyes enough to not continue doing it and produce original material.
Agreed.
Makes me want to watermark or otherwise brand my artwork more carefully. It's not that great, but it's good enough to get stolen ;D