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Commenting to ask for consent on someone's post isn't impossible, especially when you're already there to copy the image URL. You might be providing some benefit to these photographers but you're right, I mostly don't see it. I don't see upvotes on their posts, but I see some pretty big ones on these Photo Selection posts. That's not curation in the spirit of Steem.

No problem with that if the authors have consented to their photos being presented here though.

Interesting. You see that they don't have more upvotes, but you dont see that I comment EVERY post before I feature it. If someone thinks it is not in his/hers interest, he/she can reply and refuse. That is not enough for you?

Then the real problem for you is a curating reward. Are you telling me that it is immoral to get curating reward greater than a reward of a single contributor? If it is so, which contributor would it be?

And if you want to measure rewards, then measure a sum of all rewards that featured photographers got for a day, and then it wouldn't look so big. And I repeat, I do not get all the rewards from the @photo-trail account. It's a group of people. That reward is splitted among many.