Our upvote bot is free for any registered member. It's part of why it does so many upvotes a day, and why it frequently get's abused.
We try and make some exceptions for photography, but we have found that no matter how good your photography is, it is best served by adding some commentary beyond the method/equipment.
Look at users like @crimsonclad for what an excellent photography post might look like.
See how quickly this can evolve into "approved content"?
Is there a list of users whose work will be used to judge as appropriate or inappropriate?
Take away the incentive, i.e. the free upvote bot and the problem goes away.
I, like the rest of our community, would probably feel that the bot does enough good for new users to counter any of the bad that it might cause.
It's not uncommon for us to use being added to the Blacklist as a way to help a user improve their content, and in the end get more out of the platform than they might have, had we not bothered to say something about what they were posting before.
I wish you the best of luck.
O.K,
Thanks for the tip.