I vote for post I find useful, and I also make comments, otherwise I wouldn't have been among the top active users recently published. Like I said if it's not allowed it's not allowed. A simple warning would have been enough, but going back to downvote all my previous post is low, I don't know maybe you're trying to send a message to others and I ask myself to what end. Smh
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Let me be abundantly clear:
Upvoting your own posts is self-serving and does nothing for the community.
Unfortunately, it's not something strictly disallowed by Hive, so we only make note of it when considering other activities alongside it. It's a red flag that prompts us to pay closer attention to a poster's other activities.
In your case, you were rehashing content belonging to the Gods Unchained team. There is no way around that fact.
In response to your other comment, it is not the same as vocalists/musicians doing covers of music, because their individual voice is unique to them and thus adds to the original work. There are still very strict Intellectual Property rules that exist for governing royalties that must be followed. Whether or not other communities follow those rules has no bearing on whether or now we enforce a strict no-tolerance policy for plagiarism of any kind.
A warning has been provided.
What you did was wrong, whether you realized it or not at the time. Your "punishment" was to lose what you gained from something we do not allow in this community. Thieves are not allowed to keep what they stole when caught just like you are not allowed to keep the curation rewards you received for plagiarizing GU lore when discovered.
The difference is we didn't remove you from the community, entirely, and future posts will not be downvoted provided they are original content made by you.
Goes to show that some people only focus on the rewards. Rather than being glad he's only getting off with a warning over something that should be obvious to most people not to do, he's mad that his pending post rewards got removed. Instead of apologizing that it's cost ocd countless of curation rewards its delegators are losing out on cause of him and ocd being the main provider of the rewards and trail, he's pissed he can't continue milking rewards for rewriting content. Shameless tbh.
Downvotes often show people's true colors.
You are allowed to see things from a point of view and you might be right, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong, as it was never my intention to make people believe I owned the original articles. You had replied and I said if it isn't allowed then it's not allowed. When I was corrected on one of my post, I accepted it and noted it.
On this page there aren't any do's and don'ts at least none that I know of. These articles you are all chastising me for, it wasn't as if I copied and pasted them, these are stories I found interesting and I felt the need to share,and if you read the original and compare with mine, you would realise the amount of work I put in. I never claimed ownership yet you start liking my articles to that of theft (that's a big insult) all for what? You said I admitted not owning the articles somewhere else, like you messaged me privately? I said the post weren't mine on one of my post comments when asked. Even I later switched to highlighting my source by making it bold, because I felt maybe people were getting the wrong idea.
We are humans and there's no one here that won't feel bad in this same situation.
I see something that interests me I want to share it. If there was a prior warning and I continued doing same, then actions taken would have been justified. Many of us are new to hive. We all have our understanding of things. I won't talk about this issue again.
To any user that I might have led on to thinking I owned this series I'm truly sorry, they aren't mine.