RE: Does Steemit count as commercial usage of content?
Right now, I see cryptocurrencies as trading tools, not either just property or money. I can't buy anything with it outside of Steem, for example, so I need to sell my cryptocurrency to get another currency that people want.
It's like a thing we hold to resell later, to hold in here, on Steemit, as stocks, but SBD is what I use the most to pay for bots, so I think that it is the cryptocurrency with the biggest "currency" value right now for me. The others are similar to stocks in day trading that I buy and resell later when the value is higher.
And yeap, people suck and it's hard to do things right when people overcorrect. I don't like having to say "I took this from Pixabay" because Pixabay is CC0. But oh well, people like to be able to confirm the origin of things without having to reverse image search every time they look for curations. Perhaps we can see it as making curators' lives easier.
I exchange my SBD for other coins that I hold, and sometimes I cash it out into USD. Looking at cryptocurrency as a tool is still leagues above giving meaning to paper! Bots are nice and all, but I want everyone to visit my blog to be made aware that you can still succeed without buying them. In a sense helping out newer users not feel pressured, but inspired to work more on their blogs.
It is a shame that we still need to attribute our cc0 images to thwart further investigation, but as you said—it may actually be good to help curators get to more posts!