Users need to remember that if they encounter a post that was just copied or is a fake but they already upvoted, that they can still reverse it so that they don't receiver any Steem.
If you upvote something and it goes up 2 cents and later find out that it's a fake, you can simply click it again and the vote will be gone and so will be the tip.
Also, as curators or for anyone who holds steem power, it is our best interest to make sure we upvote great content and also flag or downvote spam/copy content. It's in our best interest or else we end up getting crap on the front page. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying to censor stuff you don't like but to watch out and actively try to take out copies/spam that wouldn't benefit us.
My content is good but nobody values it.
A lot of your posts appear to be quite short, if you look at posts on the main page they are usually very long yet contain very little 'fluff' you could say. Some tips I would have is use photos more as this helps to add validation to your post. Makes it so that people can trust that the content is less likely to be copied from another source. Adding more interesting information to posts might also help. Using correct tagging as well as ensuring that the very first line of your post helps to explain the general plot and draws the reader in as a photo, the title and the first line are the only things that a user will see from your post until they click on it. Hope this has been useful to you, happy Steeming :P
Awesome advice for us aspiring writers. Thank you.
Yeah there's a difference between censoring content you don't agree with personally and making sure that the content that gets posted on Steemit is authentic and original. Honestly if there's any doubt you can always plug some of the post's text into Google or run an image through TinEye or some other reverse image search.