RE: Indisputable Evidence of @akarantain Being an Intentional Art Plagiarist and a Poseur.
I'm all with you! And the fact, that its all recorded gives the opportunity to react. The question remains for me, what an adequate reaction looks like. And of course everyone has their own idea about that.
All I plead for is, what we call "Verhältnismäßtigkeit der Mittel" (proportionality of means).
Therefore I would like to see a distinction between simply taking (with little or no change) and something done with a certain effort involved. I'm not saying to "let go" of wrong doing. I'm saying, lets all go reasonably about it. Meaning, yes, go after notorious violators of rules and community standards. But give someone a chance first to correct a mistake and to learn and improve.
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To me it looks like @lamouthe and @anthonyadavisii have added some valid points, seeing the issue from different angles and bringing two voices of reason into the discussion.
Most people doing this on Steemit will deny they did anything wrong and that it is their work. As someone who fights abuse daily, this is true 95% of the time.
There is financial incentive to every action here. Most are here to take advantage of that regardless of ethics.
It’s hard to prevent that at the same time giving people infinite chances and benefit of the doubt.
I wouldn’t be so against someone if they took another persons work as inspiration and made their own version of it (unless they traced it or used other means that make this trivial) and submitted and disclosed it as such.
If someone is undiscerning, I agree with you completely. Would not have thought the situation is this bad, as I would expect, that anybody in their right mind would correct a mistake, when given the chance. And I'm not asking for infinite chances. Of course there has to be improvement.
I could be completely misjudging the situation, but when a fellow steemian edits a post after being made aware of a wrongdoing, could that not be seen as "correcting" of the very issue? Particularly, when that person from then on respects the rules?
You are misinformed, the user didnt edit those 21 posts when told the references needed to be cited on January 5, the user only did so after the posts were revealed in our reports, almost a month after.
Even if the person would be respecting the rules now(which you cannot assert with confidence), given that it was proven the user lied about the artwork mentioned in the post not being made from a reference image it is well established that the user intentionally omitted to mention it not because of inadvertance but with the intent to deceive. Hence, even if the user would be following the rules now, that fact has no merit or virtue and it is in no way redeeming for there is no merit or virtue in correcting something when forced to.