On my self-hosted blog and Facebook, I used to write full articles as well as link to the work of others. Whenever I posted a link, I would quote an essential part of it to show the reader that the article is worth reading. This is fully covered within Germany's quotation law and usually very appreciated by the author, as it shows others his article is worth reading while still sending readers to him. I appreciate others doing this with my articles as well.

I did this here on steem, when I turned to publish mostly on steem. Now I see that some (self-appointed?) *guardians of quality* judge this legal and mutually beneficial practice as "spam" and thus flag me. I just discovered that @steemcleaners flagged [a post of mine](https://steemit.com/deutsch/@torsten/die-bild-muss-sich-entschuldigen) fully following German law.

I could ask the editor in chief of the newspaper in question now, whom I know personally, to write a statement that he appreciates this way of quoting and sending readers to his newspaper. Because he does. But seeing how smug the people running this account behave on discord, I guess it is a waste of time. 

They are the self-appointed guardians of Steem. They will let bots like @zer0hedge, who made **tens of thousands of dollars** by doing nothing but linking to the original articles **of someone else** without quotation markups continue. But I get flagged for sending readers to a newspaper?

Seriously? But it fits perfectly to my comment about Steem I wrote in German: https://steemit.com/deutsch/@torsten/steemit-ist-schlechter-als-facebook-was-die-meinungsvielfalt-angeht

More on "Zer0hedge":
https://steemit.com/steemit-abuse/@patrice/tyler-durden-of-zerohedge-joined-steemit-oh-it-s-only-copy-paste-zer0hedge