An Unintended But Welcomed Consequence Of Doing The W.W.'s Top 5 Photos Of Steemit

I've only made three of these top five lists so far, but something I immediately noticed is exactly how much photo plagiarism there is on Steemit. I mean, I knew it was always there, I just didn't realize to what degree. Spoiler: It's insanely rampant.

I may not have a lot of Steem power, but anytime I find these I will be calling out the poster, flagging their post, and then linking to the page of the original photographer if I can find them. I encourage the community to follow me in flagging these people as well.

Frankly, I am also not a big fan of posts that have pictures by other people even when the poster admits it if the images are not being used to accompany a written post. Any way you slice it, you are still making money off of someone else's work. At least in a written post, assuming that also is original, the writing itself could be claimed to be what earned the rewards it got, not necessarily the images. However, because it seems to be mostly accepted by the community, I won't flag those posts. Since my list requires that the image belong to the person that posted it, though, none of those will ever be found in my Top 5 lists.