It’s Lazy and Unethical to Earn From What Other People Submit To You Anonymously

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[–]kerbassle 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

“Please click here to submit the most controversial, titillating, shocking, interesting, and/or never before published stories that have the potential to go viral which I will publish under my own name without any indication of this in the title, and only a statement at the beginning that asks others to also send in their work for you to profit from, which should indicate to readers that every word of the content that follows has been written by someone else who will get no credit or benefit of any kind from it because all of that will go to me, me and only me. While you are working to make me a millionaire, I will be [relaxing at the beach, snow skiing with the Kardashians, coming up with other ways to take advantage of people for my own benefit, etc.]” Is what she say others are doing and should be putting on their Articles.

She implies that making money of what others Submit is evil. I feel like she thinks people are either retarded or children, why would someone send/share anything online and not expect it to circulate through the internet without the possibility of monetary gain.

She also thinks that even if someone is aware of this that its still wrong because they go unaccredited, She must really hate Christmas "dam evil doers not crediting the creator of Santa Claus".

This reminds me of the time when the happy birthday song was copyrighted, people were being fined left right and centre because they didn't pay royalty's.

[–]Nechama[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Okay, obviously this is intended as tongue in cheek and not meant to say that anyone said this directly. On Medium I noticed several pieces where the person basically said for people to submit stories to her and she would then add them to her publication where she would be paid every time they clapped for each of these other writer's stories. "why would someone send/share anything online and not expect it to circulate through the internet without the possibility of monetary gain." I would never expect everything I've ever put online would be taken and published under someone else's name for them to earn money from. In fact, that is called plagiarism. You can't just republish anything you want that is written by someone else to earn from. "She also thinks that even if someone is aware of this that its still wrong because they go unaccredited" I think that in terms of what we write, that we don't need let others take what we write so they can earn from it while we get nothing. I suppose if you really want to do all the work while someone else sits back and earns from it you can, but the point is that this implies that it's fine to do and I think most people would argue it is not. I have no idea how Santa got into the discussion of this article. Regarding the Happy Birthday song and the copyright issue, I don't think that the people the people singing happy birthday were doing so specifically to make money from not did they ask the person who wrote it specifically to do so then give it to them so they could earn money off of it, so this is not analogous.

I think you might want to take another look at the Pyramid of Debate before commenting on other articles.