spam and images and words and stealing

Ok.

This is about my site, Enlightened Conflict, images I use, words I use <and avoiding plagiarism> and spam.

Look.

I just deleted 2178 spam comments … oh … and I steal images <but I am not a thief>.

Just trying to get some big stuff out of the way and clear the air.

Therefore I apologize to:

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–          Anyone who actually commented but I was too lazy to weave my way through all the comments listed as spam to see if your comment was really a comment

–          Anyone who had an image I used and they didn’t like that I actually used it in association with what I wrote

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Ok.

With regard to the spam.

I probably get over 4000 spam comments a week.

I am sure <he says hopefully> that there are real comments buried within the cheap purses for sale, male enhancement offers, inexpensive drug sales, emails from Diondra/Deondina,Deodidra/Edinalva/etc., rooftop sales and more.

But if I looked through them all I would have no time to write posts.

As I often say in my writing … everything in life is a trade off.

With regard to images.

Just to cover my ass.

Images I use.

Yes.

I use other people images.

No.

I have not asked for permission.

I use images that I believe are interesting and support the idea I am trying to communicate.

Rarely, if ever, was the original image used in association in any form or fashion with a topic similar to what I am discussing. The original image was being used to support a completely different thought and topic. I apologize to the image owners/users but hope they understand their images are being used with good intent.

Plus.

I also admit.

When you find an image nowadays you often cannot tell if where you found it is actually the origin or they were using it from somewhere else.

Next.

What I write about.

Words I use.

I seriously doubt I have consciously plagiarized anyone’s thoughts or words. I have seen some well articulated thoughts that are components of what I write about and while trying to avoid using the same words … a well articulated thought is a well articulated thought and, frankly, it’s difficult to find better words if something is well articulated.

I have found things that I have written appear somewhere else (even though I know they have never seen what I wrote). That is the way of the world. If people have the same idea and they know how to articulate it, it will often look very similar in verbiage.

When I do actually use something that someone else wrote I either italicize or credit it.

Lastly.

Thoughts I use.

This is the trickiest.

Let me begin with my other site <although I do post articles about it here>.

I know I have not found anyone who has outlined the Global generation children’s education initiative that I have outlined.

Period <end that thought>.

With that said … my other writing which you typically find here. I have seen several thoughts written on just about everything that I have written about.

And some damn nice thoughts.

Therefore I have to assume some things I write may look similar to some existing thoughts out there. I stopped really looking around once I found my own writing style.

On the other hand … I do hope that some of my thoughts cannot be seen anywhere else (at least articulated the way that I articulate it).

All this is said so that no one thinks I tried to take their thought and make it mine.

Suffice it to say that when I write it is because I had an idea <a thought> and started writing.

I have not intentionally used anyone’s thought to replace mine. Maybe used a thought to support mine but that’s it.

Ok.

I will now issue an apology to anyone who sees something and invests the energy to suggest I stole, plagiarized or used something incorrectly.

Never meant to.

Certainly went out of my way to avoid it.

So.

Before you try to sue my ass or berate me publicly as a hack feel free and drop me a note and I will do everything in my power to make it right if I am in the wrong.

Thanks.