Abuse Series: The Folks You Come Across

         Sometimes, you come across the strangest people on the blockchain, and these people are in no short supply. They can give you chuckles, but often leave you scratching your head, or even baffled because you realized that such personalities exist in our world.

         Let's take some time to laugh, feel bad for humanity, and then laugh again. Maybe shed a tear or two? The drama alone is well worth it.

1. It's totally my work I swear!

         Consider how much crap Hive account@logic goes through each day, I am somewhat amazed to see how this guy prepared ahead of time for his defense against any plagiarism claim. Talk about a rotten egg from the start, eh? If Hive account@logic wasn't decently compensated, I don't even know how he puts up with the shenanigans.

2. Be honest for my dishonesty

         This one is comical. It's already been shared by Hive account@meno and Hive account@themarkymark before and they've had entire writeups about it. It's pretty ridiculous how someone could turn around and try to present themselves as the victim of some terrible crime. It gets funnier, or worse, depending on who you talk to, when the said person accused Hive account@organduo for plagiarism...

         Okay, I will cut him some slack by saying that it's actually harder to see that author information on mobile. However, it is pretty obvious for anyone who spent a minute to check out the blog on the desktop.

3. It's not a copy!

         I understand that reading is not everyone's forte, but if you are participating in a platform that requires a lot of reading, I would expect you to have some basic reading comprehension. Somewhere in the Hive account@steemcleaners comment, the explanation was lost. In fact, I see Hive account@pjau and Hive account@naturicia telling people to read the comments, which offer the reason for flag, on regular basis.

4. I forgot to decline payout...

         To give some context, part of the Hive account@cheetah appeal process requires the Steemian to post 7 ORIGINAL posts over the period of at least 7 days before being considered taking off the blacklist. Somewhere along that guy's thought process, he figured he'd just go "full Hive account@dlike" and decline payout to satisfy those requirements. Suffice to say, he completely missed the instructions.

         Now I have thought about it, I think "gone full Hive account@dlike" should be an expression on the blockchain. Maybe it will pick up? I know I will start using it.

         I don't want to be the judge of their moral character, but I certainly hope these people don't behave like that in real life and invest in more integrity. I'm not perfect, but at least I try to be a decent person. Then again, I guess nothing is new under the sun. People will be people.

         This marks the conclusion of Volume 1 of Abuse Series. More will come in the future when I take better notes.

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