We hate spammers and cheaters on Steemit!
Lately I've seen a lot of stories with copied material receiving many votes. Especially quality photography stories copied from another web sources directly here without any credit.
Please don't give your votes away. Be responsible when voting! This way you can give reward to people that are struggling to bring you quality original content.
How you do a basic and quick check to verify if a posted image is original or not:
If you are using Chrome it's really simple:
1. Right click the image
2. Select "Search Google for Image" option
That's it! You will see on the search results if the same image was indexed before.
If you use another browser you can read all the details of using Google Reverse Image Search.
You can also use http://www.tineye.com - another reverse image searcher
As an example, If you search for the image from this story you will see that I've just added the Steemit logo over a stock image so the image is a fast edit that does not deserve any vote!!! Please do not vote on a story that has posted just a photo like that without any other valuable content. This is just stealing!
Let't try to keep this place "clean"!
will this work if I have loaded my photos sometime back to say steemimg.com or elsewhere and then write a post that include that photo?
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Good question! Try it!
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I'm working on a post of some pics I loaded last week and will post the story next week. let's see how that goes.
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This works if you see many multiple instances of that image being used., but you should always check first though. Often people upload their photos onto Flickr or other media sharing platforms and the photo might actually belong to them. It's not nice to be accused of plagiarism for your own photos!
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Thanks for the heads up, i figured people would plagiarize when money is involved
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