I think there is a very big difference in using a relatively common name (StarWorld) which has been used in several different places for completely unrelated purposes, such as a TV station, a furniture company, and so on, and using someone else's "personal" ID. The name "Marky Mark" was coined and used by the well known actor, Mark Wahlberg. To take and use his "unique" name (without his permission) can in fact be easily argued that it is a form of identity theft. Don't believe me? Ask your lawyer!
In any event, I see that the value of your Steemit account is quickly falling in value, partly because of the fall in the market value of Steem, and partly because you too appear to be in a massive "power down" mode. No doubt, you too can finally see the writing on the wall, and realize that Steemit's time is quickly coming to an end, or at least the opportunity it provided to make any worthwhile amount of money is over.
Steemit may never actually go out of business, but neither will it ever become a forum that will attract a significant user base. Sure, new members join all the time, but how long do they stay? A day? a week? a month? The vast majority of Steemit members never post an article, nor do they ever comment on one. They come expecting to earn rewards from curating other articles, and when they realize that is virtually impossible to do, they quickly leave!
Steemit never had a sustainable business plan, it doesn't, and most likely never will. Sure, Steemit may try and claim that it is "unique" within the "forum" landscape, and it may very well be. But there is a reason for that. Steemit's plan did not work. It was doomed form the start. @ned knew that, which no doubt is why he eventually bailed out. Perhaps he was a great programmer, but unfortunately, like so many "great" programmers before him, he had next to zero business savvy.
Nice to see that you still need to use your down-voting bot to show the rest of the Steemit Community what a total fucking asshole you are! You are one truly sick individual. Please get some help!
LOGICZOMBIE - Today at 2:18 PM
Ok, so anyone can use copyrighted images for their user icons as long as they make a post about it at some point?
This is "definitions-of-abuse", should I be asking somewhere else?
Atari Jaguar - Today at 2:19 PM
yes anybody can use the image of a well known character
"Ok, so anyone can use copyrighted images for their user icons as long as they make a post about it at some point?"
Technically "No", but yet many people do. In reality, no one is entitled to use a "copyrighted" image unless they receive permission to do so from the copyright holder.
"yes anybody can use the image of a well known character"
That is not true! Again, many people do this, but in reality it is illegal to do so. There are however different levels of IP rights infringement. For example, it would be considered much more serious to use a copyrighted images let's say for the cover of a book that is to be sold for a profit, than it would be to use a copyrighted images as a personal "avatar". By convention, the key is really the purpose for which the image is being used.
Oh, I see! Steemcleaners appear to flag posts based on 2 criteria: 1) If the post contains an image which is known not to be taken by the author, without giving credit to the IP rights owner; and 2) Re-posting an article or part of one which was simply a copy and paste from some other site, without crediting the IP rights owner and/or providing a link to the source. i.e. If I post part of an article from Fox News and provide a link to the original Fox News Article, that is perfectly acceptable. If however, I post part of an article from Fox News but give no indication where I copied it from, I would be essentially claiming that I was the author, and that would be a copyright violation.
Re-posting an article or part of one which was simply a copy and paste from some other site, without crediting the IP rights owner and/or providing a link to the source.
Actually, even if you cite your sources with a prominent attribution link, it can still be downvoted as "copy-pasta".
It's better to just decline reward-payouts (like me!) because all they care about is their precious-magical-reward-pool anyway.
And apparently there's an unwritten rule about "trashing steem" and or "trashing prominent steemit user accounts". So, I'll try to avoid doing anything like that going forward.
"Actually, even if you cite your sources with a prominent attribution link, it can still be downvoted as "copy-pasta"."
That is true! But unfortunately like so many other things on Steemit, some witnesses and high-reputation members have their own set of rules. As you know, they not only down-vote a post or article that they do not agree with, but they then resort to down-voting ALL of a user's posts, comments or replies just like @themarkymark now uses a down-voting bot to down-vote every comment I make as soon as I hit the Post button.
What these people didn't realize is that they totally destroyed the very thing they were holding so dear.
Take a look at @themarkymark wallet. He is now in the process of powering down all of his steem. I suspect that he too has finally seen the writing on the wall and now realizes I was right...Steemit's days as an ongoing entity of any significance are quickly coming to an end, and wants to cash in while he still can.
Personally I think that one day very soon, we will try to login to Steemit, and find that there is no Steemit...gone! Totally gone! along with any remaining Steem in our accounts. Steemit does not have a sustainable business plan. Only a very naive person cannot see that the end is quickly approaching. The writing is on the wall.
"And apparently there's an unwritten rule about "trashing steem" and or "trashing prominent steemit user accounts"."
Indeed! And to think there is no "censorship" on Steemit! In fact, with the exception of "porn" posts being openly allowed on Steemit, Steemit is one of the most censored of all public forums. Post something that those in control do not like, and not only is that post down-voted or blacklisted, but that users's reputation is totally destroyed, That IS censorship at its very worst.
OMG, you stole the company name of a furniture outlet and a television station.
Not once, but twice!
Lol,...
@themarkymark
I think there is a very big difference in using a relatively common name (StarWorld) which has been used in several different places for completely unrelated purposes, such as a TV station, a furniture company, and so on, and using someone else's "personal" ID. The name "Marky Mark" was coined and used by the well known actor, Mark Wahlberg. To take and use his "unique" name (without his permission) can in fact be easily argued that it is a form of identity theft. Don't believe me? Ask your lawyer!
In any event, I see that the value of your Steemit account is quickly falling in value, partly because of the fall in the market value of Steem, and partly because you too appear to be in a massive "power down" mode. No doubt, you too can finally see the writing on the wall, and realize that Steemit's time is quickly coming to an end, or at least the opportunity it provided to make any worthwhile amount of money is over.
Steemit may never actually go out of business, but neither will it ever become a forum that will attract a significant user base. Sure, new members join all the time, but how long do they stay? A day? a week? a month? The vast majority of Steemit members never post an article, nor do they ever comment on one. They come expecting to earn rewards from curating other articles, and when they realize that is virtually impossible to do, they quickly leave!
Steemit never had a sustainable business plan, it doesn't, and most likely never will. Sure, Steemit may try and claim that it is "unique" within the "forum" landscape, and it may very well be. But there is a reason for that. Steemit's plan did not work. It was doomed form the start. @ned knew that, which no doubt is why he eventually bailed out. Perhaps he was a great programmer, but unfortunately, like so many "great" programmers before him, he had next to zero business savvy.
Took you four days to come up with this nonsense?
Not really! Some of us actually have a life outside of Steemit.
!dramatoken
You've got
DRAMA!To view or trade
DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.@themarkymark
Nice to see that you still need to use your down-voting bot to show the rest of the Steemit Community what a total fucking asshole you are! You are one truly sick individual. Please get some help!
LOGICZOMBIE - Today at 2:18 PM
Ok, so anyone can use copyrighted images for their user icons as long as they make a post about it at some point?
This is "definitions-of-abuse", should I be asking somewhere else?
Atari Jaguar - Today at 2:19 PM
yes anybody can use the image of a well known character
"Ok, so anyone can use copyrighted images for their user icons as long as they make a post about it at some point?"
Technically "No", but yet many people do. In reality, no one is entitled to use a "copyrighted" image unless they receive permission to do so from the copyright holder.
"yes anybody can use the image of a well known character"
That is not true! Again, many people do this, but in reality it is illegal to do so. There are however different levels of IP rights infringement. For example, it would be considered much more serious to use a copyrighted images let's say for the cover of a book that is to be sold for a profit, than it would be to use a copyrighted images as a personal "avatar". By convention, the key is really the purpose for which the image is being used.
Eh, I'm only referring to "community standards" as currently "enforced" by steemcleaners.
Oh, I see! Steemcleaners appear to flag posts based on 2 criteria: 1) If the post contains an image which is known not to be taken by the author, without giving credit to the IP rights owner; and 2) Re-posting an article or part of one which was simply a copy and paste from some other site, without crediting the IP rights owner and/or providing a link to the source. i.e. If I post part of an article from Fox News and provide a link to the original Fox News Article, that is perfectly acceptable. If however, I post part of an article from Fox News but give no indication where I copied it from, I would be essentially claiming that I was the author, and that would be a copyright violation.
Actually, even if you cite your sources with a prominent attribution link, it can still be downvoted as "copy-pasta".
It's better to just decline reward-payouts (like me!) because all they care about is their precious-magical-reward-pool anyway.
And apparently there's an unwritten rule about "trashing steem" and or "trashing prominent steemit user accounts". So, I'll try to avoid doing anything like that going forward.
"Actually, even if you cite your sources with a prominent attribution link, it can still be downvoted as "copy-pasta"."
That is true! But unfortunately like so many other things on Steemit, some witnesses and high-reputation members have their own set of rules. As you know, they not only down-vote a post or article that they do not agree with, but they then resort to down-voting ALL of a user's posts, comments or replies just like @themarkymark now uses a down-voting bot to down-vote every comment I make as soon as I hit the Post button.
What these people didn't realize is that they totally destroyed the very thing they were holding so dear.
Take a look at @themarkymark wallet. He is now in the process of powering down all of his steem. I suspect that he too has finally seen the writing on the wall and now realizes I was right...Steemit's days as an ongoing entity of any significance are quickly coming to an end, and wants to cash in while he still can.
Personally I think that one day very soon, we will try to login to Steemit, and find that there is no Steemit...gone! Totally gone! along with any remaining Steem in our accounts. Steemit does not have a sustainable business plan. Only a very naive person cannot see that the end is quickly approaching. The writing is on the wall.
"And apparently there's an unwritten rule about "trashing steem" and or "trashing prominent steemit user accounts"."
Indeed! And to think there is no "censorship" on Steemit! In fact, with the exception of "porn" posts being openly allowed on Steemit, Steemit is one of the most censored of all public forums. Post something that those in control do not like, and not only is that post down-voted or blacklisted, but that users's reputation is totally destroyed, That IS censorship at its very worst.
@themarkymark wrote: "OMG, you stole the company name of a furniture outlet and a television station."
According to @themarkymark, Steemit itself is also guilty of stealing some company's name and adopting it as its own:
"A1 STEEM IT CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING"
https://www.angieslist.com/companylist/us/va/colonial-heights/a1-steem-it-carpet-and-upholstery-cleaning-reviews-312026.htm
They were in business using that name since 1989, so that certainly predates the Steemit forums.