Changes in New Community
I don't know how many are aware, but apparently, there were some changes in the community right before I was banned. One of them was that they added a tip jar to posts for gold members. This means that people can activate a tip jar where users can tip bloggers points. My question is this: Is this going to apply to posts with pictures taken from the internet? Because that, my friends, runs so far afoul of the DMCA, right of publicity, and copyright law that they're going to have issues. I can just see what would happen when their DMCA takedown office is flooded with takedown notices and they dilly dally like they do with everything else. Points, for all intents and purposes, function as currency. People other than the copyright owners will be profiting from their work. The other thing I took note of is when they said that Gold is being weighted higher algorithmically in the Trending List from now on. So, it seems, it's slowly becoming pay-to-play in th...