RE: steemcleaners is a fake, hypocritical "cleaner" service
If the idea was the stop everyone from reposting, that would be fine, steem would also be nearly empty.
If users want dumps of stolen content there's plenty of subreddits, blogs, porn aggregator sites that satisfy this need - steemit isn't the platform for posting stolen content. If it means that there's less content on NSFW then so be it - that'll mean that actual content creators will get more attention.
I was posting my favorite pictures of the day, same as anyone else.
If this is the case, why not deny the payout so that you aren't making money on the content?
Why would another whale bother going back and forth over that? I've been singled out by pepper, I will fight back.
I assume the whale you're referring to is the steemcleaners? They stand up for small users, combat the aggressive behavior of users profiting from stolen content.
You're not being singled out, you're simply being addressed individually (you're not the only user to be downvoted), given enough time hopefully posting stolen content will stop being a problem across the whole of steemit.
I won't be singled out just because I don't cite a FAKE source of a "tumblr" blog as the source of a gif or picture. It's actually worse than simply posting pictures, to citing some fake tumblr blog as the source when tumblr has nothing to do with the actual source/content producers/pay website that was created for those pictures.
At least faking the source shows some consideration that someone else created the content and that you're personally profiting off their content without forwarding these funds onto said content creators..
"At least faking the source shows some consideration that someone else created the content and that you're personally profiting off their content without forwarding these funds onto said content creators.."
No, you're simply misleading people and directing them towards a blog/etc with more stolen material, and falsely representing that that's 'ok' what kind of a fucking moron are you?
My posts didn't say, Hey - it's me, here are some pictures I personally took of a bunch of different girls. My posts say 'Nice tits of the day/etc' I don't think that's trying to come off as the original producer of the content.
"If this is the case, why not deny the payout so that you aren't making money on the content?"
The whole reason I'm posting is to gauge the interest/potential of steemit and the tips given. Don't give a shit about the 1-2$ that comes in on a post but it's still fun to see, and I won't disable it.
ok well.. your gauge is that the community doesnt like spam. nice experiment???
My point was that by at least faking the source you would be showing at least a tiny shred of effort in attempting to source your material. Obviously you shouldn't fake the source, nor should you steal content in the first place.
If the material you're sourcing is stolen already then perhaps you should source material from elsewhere with permission from the content creators?
Personally it comes off more like 'Check the content I stole, now pay me!'.
You could have done this without stealing content.