Introduction
Hello steemit community, Today I am going to Confess regarding my wrongful conduct on Steemit and I am going to declare that I will not do any such abuse anymore. I also explain what is considered spam or abuse? Let's use this platform fairly and make this platform great.
Let's Promote the Vision: Collective Efforts Inclusive Growth.
Confession
I have done many wrongful conducts on steemit which considered to Spam or Abuse. I did not know or aware what is considered spam or abuse. But there has a legal principal i.e. Ignorance of Law is no Excuse. So, I made this Confession and I declare that in future, I will not do any wrongful conducts.
Why am I writing this post? I am doing it to help others who also do not know What is considered spam or abuse. So, for better understanding, I am going to share some of my faults elaborately-
I have posted my first post on steemit on 23 October 2017. Which maned Assessment of Laws and Policies for the Prevention and Control of Trafficking in Bangladesh. I had made this post by 100% third party's data. Which I had used without giving any credit or reference relating to the source. I had done such major fault still tomorrow.
The Second major wrongful conduct was comment plagiarism. On 10 December 2017, I had made a poster relating to Human rights day for promoting awareness relating to human rights. I thought it should be promoted that's why I made many comments on others posts with the post link. Which was the serious violation and I also got some downvotes.
Third I had posted many plagiarist pictures without any legal authority. In the explanation part, I will explain how you can use third party's pictures or data.
Forth I begged upvotes and resteem. I also induce other to view my posts, which also violation of common rules.
I swear I will not violate any rules that's why I made my confession and now I am going to explain to others what can you do and What should not do on Steemit.
Remember My Vision: Collective Efforts Inclusive Growth.
Explanation: What is considered spam or abuse?
Steemit is a blockchain based blogging platform that supports community building and social interaction with cryptocurrency rewards. In every platform, there have some rules and terms for using such platforms. Steemit also has some rules and regulations. It's our duty to know and implement such rules to maintain steemit biodiversity. I am going to explain some major rules.
First; I will start from Copyright Issue-
According to Steemit Terms of Service
You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable license to access and use Steemit and Steemit Content for your personal use. You retain ownership of and responsibility for Content you create or own ("Your Content"). If you're posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any Content you post; that you will only submit Content that you have the right to post; and that you will fully comply with any third party licenses relating to Content you post.
So, according to this term, you cannot submit content that you have not the right to post. So, if you have right to post then you can post with any third party licenses relating to Content you post.
We usually post many pictures from Google Image Search but we do not know whether we have right to use it or not! Let me explain-
Such as, when we searching for any picture on google search then we simply take any picture and post it or add to an article but we do not check whether we have right to use it or not.
Google notify us that Images may be subject to copyright, but we still use it. It's a total violation of Copyright Law. So, what can I do? There have many Copyright free website you can use pictures from that side or use google search such as follow-
Afer searching anything on google then click on "Tools". Which is right after search box.
Now, click on "Usage Rights"
Now, we get five filter options, You can select any one relating to your purpose.
Now, you can get pictures related to your subject matter. You can use those pictures but you have to proclaim that those are not your data and you have to mention the proper source of such data.
Second; Plagiarism, Spam, and Abuse
According to Steemit FAQ following activities will be considered as a spam or abuse-
- So, if we asking upvote, resteem, view or comments to other or induce others by a comment on others posts or own posts it will consider as a Spam or Abuse.
- In steemit, you can also make cryptocurrency by comments. so, if you do similar comments on multiple posts it also considers as a Spam or Abuse.
- If you are the host of any contest of game then you cannot require upvotes to enter or play in a contest or game.
- Unrelated tags and Comments also consider as a Spam or Abuse.
- Upvote for Upvote also Violate Steemit mandate.
So, I am requesting you who are violating rules like me, let's start fair use of this platform. No more violation, No more upvote begging.
Just remember "Collective Efforts Inclusive Growth".
Conclution
Steemit is a great platform for me. I make this post from my love for Steemit. It takes 4 hours but I am still so happy to complete this post. Let's take a step to clean this platform and build our common vision Collective Efforts Inclusive Growth
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