Hi Arthur,
I appreciate you adding a critical note. I read back your comments on this post and on other users' comments where you encourage them to flag and let it sink in. I can see what your concern is.
What I'm thinking now regarding your 'fight' against :
- He seems open to discussion seeing his comments on other users suggestions. Maybe start with that? Asking your questions and seeing the respons first?
- It is annoying to see users get these 'scare comments' if they're innocent, and this is mostly caused by the pace with which the bot is testing now. I understand the need for testing though, so I would give a user I know nothing about the benefit of the doubt. (I am by the way suspecting this is a longer term user trying out a bot on a fresh account, but of course, I can also not be sure about that.)
In the big scheme of things I do see the problem with Plagiarism as one of the biggest on Steemit. I use Pinterest, for example, and on that website I sometimes get an e-mail saying 'I'm sorry, the pin you saved on your account has to be removed for legal reasons'... And 'non-blockchain blogs' get sued all the time for not appropriately crediting the use of images, even professional blogs (which I suspect will not be the biggest part of Steemit users in the end.) What does it mean for Steemit once plagiarised things get locked (after 7 days) in the blockchain? Who is responsible for it, who can remove/edit?
Anyway, lots of questions, I'd like to have a discussion on it, especially if we can do that in a civilised and calm manner. I do hope will join in and shed some light on the concerns mentioned in yours and my comments.
RE: Introducing photomatcher: reverse image search bot for photo posts