I think reposted/linked news with commentary has value, but not as high value in general. If I consider that something adds some value, I would like to use a vote slider, which I don´t yet have, and give it let´s say a 5 percent vote. While I would give a good original article a hundred percent vote.
If others do the same, then the incentive for easy money might disappear.
Also, I only reward people for news that I´m not aware of, and I´m aware of a lot.
So in order for me to find value, the person needs to dig up interesting news, from a site that I don´t know about, or haven´t checked lately, and provide some additional reflection, or connect it with other facts.
This could be quite valuable, and this is how news are made every day.
There is a grey area here. Provide one or two sentences, and it hardly looks like more than reposted content. !0 sentences and it´s starting to look like an article.
It´s up to us to decide what is good enough to reward.
This is great! You've changed my mind.
I´m happy to be of help. And I really appreciate your rational, objective mind.