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Greetings steemians! Lately I've noticed lots of people trying to copy other people's ideas and doing incredibly less-than-mediocre jobs of trying to compete with them. I've even seen some people try to copy the copies. They see a successful project and jealousy takes over. Their egos just can't seem to take the idea that someone came up with a good idea and is doing a good job of executing it. So, first they try to attack the idea out of egotistical spite. When this doesn't work they try to copy the idea which only leads to further bruising of their egos since they lack the dedication and technical and social skills the ones who created the idea implemented to make it a success. 

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Some of these people might even know how much time, hard work and attention to detail was put into the original idea but their egos make them incapable of admitting to themselves that they lack the proper skills and knowledge to create anything close to competition. Others feel threatened as they think that somehow the community that springs up around the successful project will somehow detract from theirs. The funny thing is that their actions are the only thing that makes this true. There would be plenty of room for both as people can be part of both communities but their jealousy and associated tantrums cause people to leave their community. 

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Successful ideas are generally the result of months or even years of careful attention to every fine detail. The people who implement these ideas have usually spent many years developing the skills necessary to make the idea successful. This gives the idea creators the ability to foresee most problems and find ways to correct them or possibly even benefit from them before they implement them. You can't expect to be able to copy what you perceive to be their idea because, for one thing, you probably don't even fully understand the idea. If you've only put 2 days worth of effort into your copy and don't even know enough about what you are trying to do to foresee the problems that will arise then your project is almost certainly going to fail. If your project fails because of this it is no one's fault but your own.

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Copying a project after you have attacked it only makes you look bad. Since you've already stated what you think are the problems with it and you copied it anyway you not only look like a hypocrite but will probably not do nearly as good of a job at trying to correct those problems (if they are really problems) nor the ones you didn't see because they had already solved them.

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When you see a good idea being successfully implemented there is no reason to compete with it or attack it. These are the actions of children. It is a much more sensible position to try to work with those people. In my experience, creators of good ideas are usually open to other use cases they might not have thought of and will usually be delighted to incorporate other ideas into it if those ideas are beneficial.

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My advice is that if you don't have the skills or creativity to come up with a successful idea you have one of two options. You can either start to learn the knowledge and skills required to implement a successful idea as it is in the learning process that successful ideas are usually generated. The other option is that you can try to work with a successful project as your ideas and insights might be useful to those people. Anything else is madness. I really hope this helps some people in the future. Good luck and happy steeming!

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