I will upvote this post as it sheds light on some of the most blatant copy and pasting going on at the moment and this is also original content. You actually took the time to sit down and think about the issue and create a post.

Who is flagging Hive account@zer0hedge? I am.

Let me first say that I do not have a 'vendetta' against this individual and that I'm a frequent reader of Tyler Durden and ZeroHedge.com

Why I'm flagging this account?

Here's an excellent post from 3 months ago authored by Hive account@patrice

Tyler Durden of Zerohedge joined Settemit! Oh it's only a Copy and Paste Zerohedge

You can read this article for yourselves as the author makes a great point.

If you continue to support and reward Copy and Paste material you are signalling to the community (especially new users) that this is what's valued on the platform. What do you think the outcome will be?

Let's address a few things.

I've only ever flagged 2 accounts in my 11 months on Steemit and both have been for the same reason.

Hive account@zer0hedge and Hive account@sandrino

(The latter posts upwards of 10 youtube videos a day and falsely claimed to be affiliated with WSL - World Surf League)

You asked the question:

Have you ever linked a YouTube video?

Yes, most of us have. Aside from my earliest posts (when I didn't understand the platform), I have made a concentrated effort to source all of my material properly and this includes photos.

I don't support content as you've described in your post above (MEMEs, YT vids, links with a few words /etc.) and refrain from upvoting low effort posts.

So is Zer0hedge a plagiarist?

Hive account@zerohedge is a plagiarist

But you're mistaken to come to the conclusion that everyone who has uploaded a YT video here is also a plagiarist. There are excellent posters here who write posts and add in depth commentary and analysis and who link a YT video for emphasis or to begin their discussion (and most of them provide a citation or give credit to the creators). This is vastly different from copy and pasting.

There is either a line in the sand or there is not...we are either stealing content or we are not.

Yes, there's a line in the sand but i don't believe that the it's black and white as you present this dichotomy. If you site your sources properly, give credit and add to the discussion I don't believe that that's 'stealing content'.

There most certainly is a line and it isn't difficult to distinguish either.