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RE: De-Spinning the Spin - The real truth
If you downvoted people for harassing the innocent with their downvotes, that would deter harassment (which you are ostensibly against).
You use your downvotes to punish people who make personal attacks (and that's awesome).
Why not use your downvotes to punish people who make personal attacks (with their downvoting power)?
If you say "people are free to use their stake as they please", aren't self-voters "using their stake as they please"?
Aren't spammers using their resource credits (earned from their steem-power) "using their stake as they please"?
I'm not sure why you would be eager to downvote for one form of harassment but NOT for another form of harassment.
I can assure you I don't downvote for petty things like that,
Fantastic.
I have no idea why people downvote, usually the person complaining is not telling the whole story. I can't figure out every downvote (which there are a lot of) who is right or wrong. It would be an absolute nightmare to police every downvote.
I am not any authority figure or moderator, I am just another user like you and everyone else using my stake as I feel benefits the platform as a whole and aligns with my interests.
You are a de facto authority figure and or moderator, you manage community blacklists and have the power to deny rewards and hide all posts of accounts you personally disprove of.
You even use that (copyrighted footage) movie clip of THOR wielding "the ban-hammer".
Only a de facto mod has the power to influence view-ability of posts and comments on OTHER PEOPLE'S blogs.
I am just a large stake holder willing to sacrifice my time and stake to make the rewards more balanced. Nothing more nothing less.
You should look into and understand Fair Use Doctrine
Again, I am not a mod, I am just a stake holder that wasted thousands of hours of my person time to help balance rewards only to be shit on by trolls and spammers.
I know what fair-use is, but steemcleaners will downvote you for neglecting to provide attribution links for images (even free pixabay images).
I don't see any source credit or attribution links here -
https://steemit.com/buildawhale/@buildawhale/buildawhale1583512430
You misunderstand.
There is a difference between when third party content is your post and when third party content adds to your post.
If I use CC0 (public domain with no requirement to attribute) I do not source it. It is free to use without sourcing. I use gifs freely as they fall under fair use.
If I use images that are not CC0 I always source.
I NEVER make a post that is exclusive a third party piece of content and try to get rewards off their work. Any third party content always suppliments my post as fair use, but I will source so it is not assumed it is my own work.
The post that was downvoted by steemcleaners was over 100 words of original content with a few pixabay images interspersed.
Pixabay example,
https://pixabay.com/blog/posts/40-free-christmas-wallpapers-2017-144/
Also,
https://pixabay.com/photos/fox-nature-winter-snow-mammal-4893199/
I have no idea what post you are talking about, but I am not SteemCleaners, I am sure there is a reason. You can go to their #appeal channel if you have a problem with what they did.
So, you consider images ripped directly from a copyrighted movie to be CC0?
No, you really should read my responses.
"If I use CC0 (public domain with no requirement to attribute) I do not source it. It is free to use without sourcing. I use gifs freely as they fall under fair use."
I'm asking specifically about the thor "ban-hammer" gif.
Is there anyone else you can troll?
I'm asking sincere and important questions.
Feel free to ask me to stop, or simply refuse to respond.
I do my best to avoid ad hominem attacks and name calling (troll references).
"GIFs [all images] with famous faces
This notion of fair use becomes even more complex when a GIF features a celebrity [movie star like Chris Hemsworth or Nathan Fillion].
Individual celebrities also have the option to invoke so-called “right of publicity” laws that allow public figures to control how their image is used, according to Fortune‘s Jeff John Roberts.
Despite the absence of any clear legal decision on this matter, social media networks have already adopted measures to protect themselves. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) ensures that social media sites who host GIFs are not held responsible as long as they have a system to report and remove content accused of copyright infringement.
For you, this means that the DCMA will hold you liable for sharing copyrighted GIFs, rather than the platform on which you shared it.
Even if you include attribution or a link back to the creator’s website, you can still be held liable for copyright infringement."
https://modicum.agency/blog/animated-gifs-fair-use-copyright-law/
Feel free to contact them and ask them. But as I said before, you should understand Fair use. Bother them not me. You disagree flag it.
Ok, so all celebrity images and movie footage are considered "fair-use".
Duly noted.