As I have mentioned in the beginning, this talk is not concerning the daily contest posts and given prizes. All is fine and everybody is participating on a good will knowing consequences.
I;m trying to rise the question only of those color challenges which are actually are reposts of other photographers works. And while your self upvote is 4$ and upvote given to the the represented photographer is about 1$... the total you get on this fine example is 23$... And question is as long as i'm the author and mostly my text is there.. where is the trick and why?
Earlier when whales were not too much about curation the situation was completely different, but now everything changes
Didn't you choose to enter?
It would be easy for him to set beneficiaries for the authors he is promoting.
Clearly he is using your content to earn on in exchange for visibility.
It's a choice as long as you willingly entered. If it isn't worth it to you, don't enter.
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Yes, this photo was an entry to actual weekly contest, which results announced in due course. At this point there is no any problem with it, if photo used for a winners announcement post.
But definitely not for some another single post (even copying my text) and this is what I wanted to discuss.
It is not only about myself, but other photographers photos used for similar posts. Though some of them maybe happy.... who knows
And at this point yes, looking where the situation is going to just have to consider my further participation then...
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