I am passionate about photography and hate it when people shamelessly copy photographs from the Internet and do not provide any source/reference whatsoever.
Recently, as some of you may know I started curating a list of Top 6 Photographers everyday. This means that I am now carefully browsing the Photography Tag and unearthing those hidden talents.
To my horror there are plenty of users (particularly new ones) who are simply copying images from the Internet and posting them on Steemit. Most of these posts do not have any text at all, leave alone sources or references and are earning decent amount of STEEM. It is very disheartening to see legitimate users doing poorly and these Plagiarized posts earning money.
I have started reporting these posts and users to the @steemcleaners group but they seem to be too many.
How to find Plagiarized Images in JUST ONE STEP
This is the solution which works with Chrome Browser on Desktop
1. Right Click on any Image and select "Search Google for Image"
This is it, this is all you need to find the original source of the image. If the image is found, Google will display the results and you can simply get the original source of the image.
The next step is to simply report the Post along with the Original Source at #steemcleaners-linkdrop on steemit.chat
I urge you all to report offending accounts and make Steemit Cleaner. Don't Upvote on any post where there is a slightest doubt on originality. Upvoting such posts only encourages these users to post more crap.
@anyx @firepower - I have reported a few users who are regularly posting copied images. A problem I have noticed is that these guys are posting a lot everyday but only 1 or 2 posts get flagged since it is difficult to report all the individual posts. Any suggestions?