Thank you. Your initial guidance and help made me realize the mistake I had made. Will certainly connect with all my good friends who are here on HIVE. Will do my best to keep good content. I work hard on my photography and my posts. Hope I am able to live up to the standards.
And just so we are clear for the other know-it-alls that popped over here:
From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary -
Well this 'know-it-all' pointed out that if he chooses to use his work elsewhere he should make sure to say so ...something that should have been explained to him instead of tossing the plagiarism term in like he was committing theft of content when all he didn't do was state where it was first published. It's his content to use as he wishes.
I did 😁
While it may be best practice to acknowledge where your content was originally published, as long as it is YOUR content you should be able to use it how you please, with or without acknowledgement of previous use. I mean even by posting to the hive blockchain, your post is published on many websites.
I agree. The main benefit of stating a piece has been posted elsewhere is to avoid being accused of plagiarism. Your content is yours to crosspost/syndicate where you choose to.
The term 'self-plagiarism' is irrelevant here on a blogging platform. It's relevant in academia and research where using your previous content/arguments without clarity that you're recycling content is considered to be a serious breach of trust.
Attempting to apply the word here would mean that anytime a person puts a post up that has any language previously used in one of their posts without referencing the post they would be self-plagiarizing. That would apply to all those posts that have repeated parts along with updated information. That gets pretty silly, pretty quickly in a blogging situation.
Noted. However, I have already decided that I am not going to post on Steemit. As you have pointed out, most of my old friends and mentors are on HIVE now. So - the question of self-plagiarism does not arise if I only am posting here on HIVE. I am a bit dejected though. Still getting downvotes even on comments and responses from @spaminator Do not know if I should continue to post and interact. ☹️
talk to @guiltyparties and see if he can help you with that. It could be you need to be manually removed from the bot.
@shadowspub - How to talk to @guiltyparties ? On Discord or something? I am not very familiar with any chat mediums on Hive. Would be grateful if you can point me in the right direction. Thanks
yes Discord is your best bet. You can find him in several servers including the Hive one https://discord.gg/cqyMtaQfJw ... I suggest you tag him and ask if you can DM him to ask his guidance.