🌱 Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism
Plagiarism is copying someone else's work without credit, while self-plagiarism involves reusing your own previous content without proper citation. Both are prohibited to ensure originality and fairness in the community.
🤖 AI-Generated Content (Text)
AI-generated text is not allowed. This appears to be a good thing, if not for all humanizers AI that are available and make it impossible to know if the text was produced with AI. A focus on content and circumstances are needed for a post to be personalized and have its identity.
🎨 AI-Generated Content (Media)
Expecting everyone to be a professional artist is highly unrealistic. Users are welcome to use Limited AI-generated images to get generate a thumbnail or explain a concept, as long as the content of the post is engaging and genuine.
📺 YouTube Videos
Besides fair use. Youtube terms of Service allow the public to embed YouTube videos on their websites considering that add are still being served, and all social medial platforms are leveraging this feature for the interest of all parties. Inside the Ecoer community, users are free to share a YouTube video as long as the embed feature is provided by the original owner and uploader when sharing his video, and the proper referencing is provided. The owner of the video still reserves the right to request the video shared to be removed from the post.
📜 Low-Quality Posts
Ecoer is a blogging community, not a microblogging one. Users are encouraged to create small, meaningful blogs and avoid low-effort contributions. The effort put into posts should align with the rewards they expect to receive. The goal here is about maintaining a fair balance between effort and compensation.
📚 Proper Referencing & Sourcing
This is pretty straightforward, users are invited to source and reference any open assets they are using, and avoid copyrighted materials.
🌐 Localization
All users are invited to use their native language. But a mandatory English version is required. Users are invited to use GPT or any translation tools if they do not know how to write in English.
🕵️♂️ Identity Verification
The community reserves the right to request additional verification from accounts that are deemed highly suspicious. The process should always be done privately.
📣 Complaints
Complaints, if not resolved by reached the mangers of the community, can be directly sent on discord to @ecosynthesizer.
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Thanks for sharing these detailed guidelines. As a community manager, I am glad to see that we are promoting originality and fairness. The balance maintained with AI generated content will help creatives without compromising the authenticity of posts. Proper referencing and encouraging multilingual participation is a strong step towards inclusivity. Together we will ensure these guidelines are followed and that quality and mutual respect are maintained in the Ecoer community.
Awesome… I joined today . I have also invited others to join.
https://blurt.blog/blurt-1787181/@offgridlife/611z8r-joining-the-new-ecoer-community-on-blurt
Can I rewrite this post in Bengali? Those who are Bengalis can join this comment. All the rules and regulations are written in Bengali.
Hey, Provide a Bengali version, and we will add it as a translation to the main guidelines.