Flagged for being copy-paste and plagiarism (the later since it is unclear that the poster is not the author, in fact it is clear from some of the comments that actual confusion has occurred). I don't really care about tag abuse as tags are currently mostly useless, but it would be that too.
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Why do you say ''tags are currently mostly useless''? I would tend to disagree because I use them on a daily basis when I want to know everything that comes out on a specific hot topic on Steemit such as, for example, #pizzagate, #vault7, #wikileaks...
I stand corrected. They were useless based on my experience trying to use them in the past, but somewhat differently. For high volume tags people tend to put them in whenever there is the remotest connection and it isn't a good way to find content. But I can see where, for specific narrow topics it does work. Thanks for sharing your experience.
one thing I would like to add, if you add in the context of the past 2-3 days, the talks around dan were the license of Steem and the license of it. SO it is related and context matters. I'm not seeing the point in flagging good content.
I've just read all the comments didn't see anyone saying "Congratulations on your book dan" being ecstatic that he's posting and hasn't given up completely is one thing,
And I can't see neither "by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine" on steemit :) With,
I agree that dan hasn't stated he didn't write the book, but he hasn't said he did either, and it shouldn't be his responsibility people get confused because they can get to the end of a post.
As it stands his mistake was not copy pasting the begging line of the chapter, "Boldrin & Levine: Against Intellectual Monopoly, Chapter 1" but seeing that the authors and the book is on intellectual property, I wouldn't say the exposure brought from someone supporting their views, would be bad, hell why not imagine the 200$(that were here when I saw the post) here go to the authors as a small tip :) why not fight for that then to be the next steem cleaner :)
I can just say I'm happy that dan has found the decline payout button :P getting on your guy's trigger fingers :D
On a more personal note about tags, yeah the UI can use a MAJOR improvement, are you up for ideas, I'm thinking of making a post that gets updated weekly with proposed changes, much like the steemtools, but more closely monitored(since much of what is there is outdated) and yeah weekly reports of the ideas and the implementation maybe, the tags could be a major benefit if we use them correctly. so far few haven't had much luck, maybe with the challenge30 started by dragos being the only time they were partially useful. I agree that they are mostly used towards exposure and vaguely contribute on the topic, currently everyone is using steemit because it's the most used tag, steem because we all use that as a currency :| so the vaguesness is endless.
So how about you whale people start working together, please, the divides aren't helping we need you we need ned, we need everybody to get together and start working alongside one another :) at least that is how I see it in my pink eyeglasses. Sadly even the guy with the pink glasses doesn't see that as a reality :|
I too stand corrected, this post might be worth a major flag, but personally I wouldn't because it's ned and he doesn't post every day. Plus he gave us the flags :D
Copy pasting in general is discouraged. Im not saying there is a hard rule, but linking is better IMO. When combined with the fact that it isn't clearly attributed the result is poor. As far Dan, I respect his contributions, but he left, and despite promising not to post or vote any more, he is doing both. Why not just move on to his next project without drama and leave us do what we have to do without him? To come back and stir up shit is just disruptive. I'm not saying I'm going to automatically flag him every time but I'm sure not going to give him the benefit of the doubt on ignoring community standards of behavior when his very presence here is: a) showing that he can't be trusted to follow through with what he says he is going to do (or in this case not do), and b) disruptive.
After writing my comment, I saw you UI comment above. I think the tag system could get much better. Not sure if when I read the word roadmap on Steemit, people are talking about things like homepage, menus, search engine and other UI related stuff, but I sure know the tags are not easy to find. That is if they are not among the trending ones.
He linked to the source at the end of the post. The tags refer to this concept as it relates to Steem and Steemit alike. It's no huge mental leap to see the obvious connection.