RE: RE: When I First Started Blogging, I Was Scared To Death...

No, I read something Task wrote on it. You see, people don't realize what a lifesaver Hive was to me when I found it in the form of Steemit.

I'd spend hours writing my posts, only to watch some guy from South Asia who must have used some sort of software, instantly posting my work as his own. I'd publish at noon, and by 12:07 he had my post up with my byline replaced with his name, it was so disheartening.

Blogger corp was no help, as they wanted me to fill out a long for each of the hundreds of posts I'd already written.

In effect, I was working for the content thief, seeing him receive all this praise for "his" polished posts, while he was making way more money than I was on my own work.

So I stopped. Why work for him for free? Can you believe he actually got mad and demanded that I continue, because his audience was wondering when "he" was going to publish new posts!

After going through that to have 12 of his copycat posts taken down, I gave up on blogging. I stayed away for several years, then wondered if someone would combine blogging with crypto, then along came Steemit and I was back in it! I couldn't be more grateful.