Yet I could barely find more than 2 Imgur links in the entire section going back a few days.

Yet if you go to /funny, you will see this http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ay8pa/shes... which appears to be watermarked and taken from lamebook.com.

I did not submit this to Reddit and unless I am seriously mistaken, I don't have any ads on this site at all...

It is a fair point on not pointing fingers at social media communities that try very hard to find unique content. However, it has become an issue in my opinion. I don't see any other sites with a grip hold on social that are re-purposing content.

I would never pretend to tell anyone what the purpose for them making a site is and I am not even going to bother with the 'if you make it, they will come' conversation.

And before you go passing too much judgement, Reddit themselves didn't seem to hate my advice and direction when I sat in their office and helped them with their SEO.

Sure.. Makes complete sense if you happen to be on that social media site and see that your content has been stolen. However, not everyone is.

Also... educate yourself on what a social media consultant is. The first thing I ever say to a client, is we don't try to use some trick or spam social media sites. Rather take the time and create real high quality content that social media users would like and to make it a regular part of their site going forward.

Just because their are a few hacks and 'so called experts' doesn't mean we are all snakes. Just like not all politicians are evil, not all lawyers are scumbags, and even though there are Haiti scam charities out there, I still gave to the Red Cross.

I also understand your third point. However, this is not always the case. In the cases where the top comment is the source of the article, I doubt anyone would have complaint. In many cases, and I happen to know quite a few people who run image based websites, people just steal their images and then do not give any credit.

In Digg, there are countless times I have seen people actually take a submitted image, then resubmit it off Imgur. In these cases, because of the support Imgur gets, they Imgur submit ends up getting all the visibility and success. That might not seem important to some people, but there are websites that are in the business of creating content and to have it stolen does not allow them to profit or benefit off the success the image gets. Now I know making money is not a sexy conversation, it is a large reason you have content at all.

So although there are cases where people use Imgur properly and although that is the way it should be used, too many people are not using it correctly and the social media communities don't seem to care 'overall'. And since Imgur has no ability to prevent copyright images from being uploaded and since social media users seem to turn a blind eye to the site since it is created with good intention, that is why it is an issue , in my opinion, worth talking about.

Hope your hungry.. I have said it and will say it again. I really like the Imgur site and that is the reason for it success. However, social media users have abused it to a point that it has to be looked at.

Valid points. However, the social media community is very harsh on Tinypic or Photobucket images that are simply stolen. The support and practice of using Imgur to steal content and push it independently has become blatant and abusive.

So why is it that Digg and Reddit users find it ok to take submitted content or original content, take it and then promote it in a different site. Because the site was created by a Redditor or a student?

You find me a screen shot of a Digg or Reddit popular section filled with Photobucket or Tinypic urls of copyrighted material... and I will talk about that as well.

Thank you for so clearly defining the double standard.

So directly linking to stolen content is ok, but blogging about it is not. That's just silly.

I like Imgur.. just wish social media users would stop abusing it, wish the social communities would stop embracing that abuse, wish Imgur would care more about protecting peoples original content.

FYI.. I do not run any ads at all...