Great initiative. copy paste and stolen images MUST be fought in a daily base, but I just hope you can be a bit flexible there on your approach...
As a photographer, there's probably no one hating stolen content more than I do, but some times I just don't feel like writing at all.
Shooting and editing until you get a ready to post good picture might take days, depending on what you're aiming for with a particular shot.
My point is that it is also wrong to go to someone's post and write what you wrote here:
https://steemit.com/photography/@roxxane/4zvetr-sea-landscape-black-and-white-photography
I would feel very disrespected if that was my post.
That photo is original, not stolen and posted on the right "photography" category/tag.
Photography is a form or artistic expression as any other, and for sure doesn't need any writing on it. On the contrair, if you write too much you are killing the possible interpretation from who ever looks at it for the first time.
Please don't get me wrong here, I think that what you're doing is very positive, just don't turn this into a witch hunt.
Cheers!
Ohh, now I saw it, you actually downvoted that original photo... Why?
That's what happen, when the poster just put up without Text Content.
Should have say something about how it been taken, 100% own work, where it have been taken.
Not simply Chuck in a post.
I didn't damaged the reputation, but cut the rewards back a bit.
If they didn't realize and show a bit more work they won't simply get more.
You still downvoted an original image, and someone who brings original content to the platform.
If I post on photography tag I don't have to write anything if I don't want to. That's why it's a photographic category, and not text, travel, poetry or whatever.
It's easy to check if it is an original image or not, there's ways to do that. The easiest is to right click on the picture and "Google search" the image.
Better than downvoting someone who's actually trying to bring original shots to Steemit, just because you don't like pictures without text.
This is not an original one, entered for my MonoMad competition. This one deserves a downvote, but you probably wouldn't do it, because it has text, the guy even says he was the one taking it...
https://steemit.com/photography/@sea-otter/monomad-photographic-contest-silhouettes-entry-1-lightscape-n-1
Will check in a moment.
Let's see.
Waiting for him to verify.
If he can't, consider the account is gone.
If he can, he is a rich man.
That one post he can't get rich.