"At least faking the source shows some consideration that someone else created the content and that you're personally profiting off their content without forwarding these funds onto said content creators.."
No, you're simply misleading people and directing them towards a blog/etc with more stolen material, and falsely representing that that's 'ok' what kind of a fucking moron are you?
My posts didn't say, Hey - it's me, here are some pictures I personally took of a bunch of different girls. My posts say 'Nice tits of the day/etc' I don't think that's trying to come off as the original producer of the content.
"If this is the case, why not deny the payout so that you aren't making money on the content?"
The whole reason I'm posting is to gauge the interest/potential of steemit and the tips given. Don't give a shit about the 1-2$ that comes in on a post but it's still fun to see, and I won't disable it.
ok well.. your gauge is that the community doesnt like spam. nice experiment???
My point was that by at least faking the source you would be showing at least a tiny shred of effort in attempting to source your material. Obviously you shouldn't fake the source, nor should you steal content in the first place.
If the material you're sourcing is stolen already then perhaps you should source material from elsewhere with permission from the content creators?
Personally it comes off more like 'Check the content I stole, now pay me!'.
You could have done this without stealing content.