Good day lovely people of **worldoffootball** community. I’m @suglo100 and I’m new to this community. I’m here to post my membership validation post on this community to complete my verification process and become one of the great members of this interesting community. _______ ![3A3E550B-F5F4-416D-B398-91BC99CE4D9C.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQy177NiSimZXcHxC5FCqvUC5o4fAJhH1aW8aH8hZbEEi/3A3E550B-F5F4-416D-B398-91BC99CE4D9C.jpeg) _{**My Validation Picture**} _______ **POST I INTEND TO CREATE** _______ World of football community is one of the interesting and known community on the steemit platform. The primary aim of creating this community was to unite football lovers and those who have the passion for football. I will be posting only football related contents such as; reviews of upcoming football matches, previews of football matches, news on the transfer window, great things that have happened in the history of football and many more about the game. In general the community is meant for posting football related contents and nothing more. _______ **CONTENT ETIQUETTE** _______ My understanding of content etiquette is abiding all the important rules when making a post. It can be seen that many people are found using other authors contents as theirs without crediting them for doing so. With regards to content etiquette, it is very necessary to reference your content. _______ **PLAGIARISM** _______ As we already learned from the newcomer’s community in the achievement 3 post. Plagiarism is simply the act of using someone’s work and making it your own without giving credit to the owner. This is a serious offense many people are found doing, claiming that they are the owners of the content. These are some of the ways one can follow to abstain from plagiarism. One need to understand what content etiquette is and start giving good references to his/her work to avoid being plagiarized. Also, one can go through the content he is looking for to get the understanding and write it in his own words without copying and pasting what is not yours. _______ **COPYRIGHT ABUSE** _______ Copyright abuse, is using items such as pictures and many other things which are not free to use. That is simply my understanding of copyright abuse. These particular items are often govern by the copyright law which make it an offense to use one of them without the author’s permission. There many many sites where one can get copyright free images to use and below are some of the sites I get my copyright free images; **1.** https://pixabay.com/ **2.** https://www.pexels.com/ **3.** https://creativecommons.org/ _______ **HOW TO PROPERLY CITE AN IMAGE** _______ To cite an image. After downloading the image from any of the above sites, you then copy the image address and the license details as well. Now you then indicate under the image you have downloaded, **[source](paste the image address here)** **[license details](paste the license addres here)**. Below is an example; _______ ![D293911D-9183-4E26-A0EB-CDEA69100371.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeiqgWPpbM11kBg1rg3MnKQiFf5bYBBC8r9qzCAkpbMea/D293911D-9183-4E26-A0EB-CDEA69100371.jpeg) _{[Source](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/France_champion_of_the_Football_World_Cup_Russia_2018.jpg)} _{[License details](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)} _______ **CONCLUSION** _______ Plagiarism is a serious crime on the steemit platform and not only in this community. It is prohibited to the rules and regulations governing this platform. If a person is caught practicing plagiarism in this community, his post will be muted and if that fellow don’t put a stop to it and keep on practicing it he will be banned forever from posting into the community. I am much pleased to make my post on this topic, it has enlighten me more on the rules of this community and I will do all my possible best to get rid of plagiarism and abide by all the rules governing this community. I am aware of the rules governing this community and steemit in general and will abide by them at all times. My best regards goes to @njaywan for his good work. **Thank you!!**