Hehe! I thought you were gently chastising the whales too! Lol! I do it for the newbies on here, and often they don’t complain. I did make the mistake early on of reporting a whale to Steemcleaners, and boy did that not go over too well. The answer I got was that his time was too precious to be chasing after image ownership! What??
All the free sites have some stolen images on them, so everyone just needs to take a few extra minutes to make sure the images are not also listed on some stock sites. I have had to have some of my own images removed from such sites in the past. 😢
In a perfect world people would care about doing the right thing because of moral conscience. But we can’t change those people and how they think about right and wrong. We can just make it more difficult for them to succeed at the expense of others! I can’t even remember who the whale was. I was just spanking new, and thought I was doing a great job! At first I was reporting all the copyright violations till I learned that Steemcleaners don’t touch that! So, every now and again I write a post about it.