{"id":10266,"date":"2016-12-07T18:50:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T05:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2021-09-11T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T08:27:53","slug":"im-going-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/frot-design\/im-going-to-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019M GIVING UP, I\u2019M GOING TO QUIT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019M GIVING UP, I\u2019M GOING TO QUIT<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

It\u2019s all too much for too little reward, and I can\u2019t go on anymore. Now don\u2019t panic, I don\u2019t mean I\u2019m going to quit Steemit, or even top myself. But I am going to quit arguing a controversial opinion on Steemit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Posting links to source images has become accepted etiquette on Steemit, and I can see that arguing about the rationale behind that behind that \u201crule\u201d is just shooting myself in the foot. Hell will freeze over before I win this argument. And in the meantime, most of the movers and shakers I\u2019m trying to impress on Steemit are going to disagree with me, so it\u2019s not getting things off to a good start.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So this is going to be my last post on the subject. I already posted a more in depth overview of my opinions on the subject here<\/a> and I still fully stand by all of it. But from now on I\u2019ll just shut up about it and toe the party line.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I do want to mention here that as an image and content creator myself, I fully support Steemit\u2019s hard stance on plagiarism. Without that, this might as well be a cross between Reddit and Facebook.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The main point I was previously making is this:<\/strong>
\nIf you do a reverse Google image search, to find the source for your image, you are likely to find around 20 million of them. eg.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As to where any of them really originated from, I think the internet has been interbreeding for decades, and the idea that we can work out the original source for most images is an idealistic myth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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But I\u2019m going to quit arguing the point now, and from now on, I\u2019m just going to do what most other people are doing \u2013 copy the first URL I see and credit it as the source for my images. Where the images are my own, I will include one of my signatures on them @sift666<\/a>, www.sift.co.nz<\/a> or www.frot.co.nz<\/a>, and if they are not my own work but from my own photo or images collections, which includes photos taken by friends and contacts, that I often can\u2019t remember who took, I\u2019ll put a link to www.frot.co.nz<\/a>. We have over 1200 web pages online and chances are, somewhere in that lot, is the image in question.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As well as not wanting to alienate people on Steemit who disagree with my viewpoint, I am also a supporter of the new Steem Trail<\/a> initiative to curate and promote posts. My partner Deb @kiwideb<\/a> is one of the first curators, and one of the things they expect in a post is links to image sources. So although my viewpoint hasn\u2019t actually changed, arguing this any further would be shooting myself in both feet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One of my odd little quirks is that I make a point of including an image every time I post a comment. These images are typically the first appropriate image I see on my SteemIMG account https:\/\/www.steemimg.com\/sift666<\/a> and I plan to keep doing that because I like images (But I won\u2019t be posting any links to those, sorry)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sometimes discretion is the better part of valour and I suspect this is one of those times, so I quit. Apologies to anyone who wanted to see someone take a stand on this, and if I see any posts expressing similar viewpoints, I will upvote them with the full power of my insignificant minnow account.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u2019M GIVING UP, I\u2019M GOING TO QUIT It\u2019s all too much for too little reward, and I can\u2019t go on anymore. Now don\u2019t panic, I don\u2019t mean I\u2019m going to quit Steemit, or even top myself. But I am going to quit arguing a controversial opinion on Steemit. Posting links to source images has become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10,66,34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22122,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/steemit\/five-things-i-quit-doing-when-i-switched-to-blurt\/","url_meta":{"origin":10266,"position":0},"title":"FIVE THINGS I QUIT DOING WHEN I SWITCHED TO BLURT","date":"May 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This year would have been my second anniversary on Hive in March. 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