He means he copies an article from a site like coindesk.com and posts it to his blog. Then uses steempress to automate posting it to steemit. He goes so far as to replace the coindesk links with his website link.
A frequent scam is to create a site - xyz.com, steal content and post it as if they were the author on xyz.com, and then put the source on their post - xyz.com hoping the community will think they wrote it.
Thanks, @patrice :) If that's the case, not very good at all :( I can't really see how that would trick anything or why really, given the bot crawlers should know it was first on coindesk.com. You gotta wonder, if that is the case, why he would even write it here... Life never ceases to amaze me though...
It really does give a little perspective as to what sort of experiences drive @steemcleaners from their point of view, which helps to balance some of the pent up emotions I have vented some here in this post. I'm a reasonably practical guy and I still think we absolutely need to setup some clear cut rules and practical guidelines for posting, especially on the pics, which is mainly where I got nuked. Thanks again for the insight.
The #photography is sorely abused.
There is a lot of frustrating things for both members of @steemcleaners and new users. Being a decentralized platform there are no real "community guidelines" that are up to date. While the FAQ isn't completely useless overall there are parts of it that don't make it clear that the FAQ isn't really a full set of rules for the community - because there really are none.
The community has to find ways of moderating itself without creating a ton of spam. Which isn't easy. I had a bot in the works to comment the first time someone used the #photography,
#steemit, #steem, #introduceyourself, and others informing them of their use. Unfortunately that potentially would just create more blockchain spam as these comments are largely ignored.
It was unfortunate that you had a bad experience with @steemcleaners.
Thanks for your understanding, @patrice :) I had a good chat with @guiltyparties and between that info and what you shared above helps a little to see things a bit more balanced, albeit **my most important post that got nuked of my poetry can not be restored, because it's over 7 days old now... Still gotta figure out what to do on that one... Plus, @blacklist-a follows @steemcleaners and downvotes everything and he said no one can fix that. Maybe remove the account all together... Although, that would only be treating the symptoms and not the main issue of the downvote itself... This is a major flaw in the entire steem platform or steemit or whatever, that if isn't changed I do not see a lot of hope for steemit in the future.
This whole experience has shown me a lot of bugs and areas which could really improve here, but doesn't seem to be any intention to do so, while at the same time, just how much junk you guys have to go through to help improve steemit for everyone.
Maybe, make the main goal of steemit more prevalent too. I mean if the FAQs say we can post basically anything that is legal, to each person in each part of the world "legal" may entail very different things too. The problem also is that it is NOT decentralized if it is owned by a corporate body and so much extreme power is given to so few.
Some things need to be made clearer in FAQs and other places... Still more to digest on it all, as I learn my way through this obstacle course...
Have a nice weekend :)