>My view for what it is worth, is you're curating photographs and people are upvoting based on your taste and judgment.

Except - too many of Masteryoda post I've seen are _**someone else's**_ curation. 

Going to another person's website and copy and pasting _**their**_ curation, isn't curating.  

## For example [here's a Masteryoda post](https://steemit.com/photography/@masteryoda/2016-underwater-photographer-of-the-year) and [here is the post where he selected 5 photos from someone else's post](http://avax.news/touching/UK_Underwater_Photographer_of_the_Year_2016_Winners.html)

The photos posted are amazing - YES. But unless masteryoda runs [Avax](http://avax.news/) someone else put in the hard work putting them together and writing up commentary on them. 

# Curating art IS a valuable skill people SHOULD bring to steemit. #

Art Gallery curators do a real job - and there are virtual equivalents to that. Sifting through the mountains of material available on the internet and bringing quality content to the fore, even if it is not your own original content is of great value.

But copying other's curation is no different than copy and pasting a Buzzfeed article in my opinion. 

If @masteryoda was transitioning to doing more actual curation with his platform that would be great, in my opinion. But selecting photos from Avax posts alone personally won't get my vote (not that it counts for much).


People are free to upvote, but people are equally free to draw attention to 'copy and pasting' and let people choose to NOT upvote.