As I have mentioned in the beginning, this talk is not concerning the daily contest posts and given prizes. All is fine and everybody is participating on a good will knowing consequences.
I;m trying to rise the question only of those color challenges which are actually are reposts of other photographers works. And while your self upvote is 4$ and upvote given to the the represented photographer is about 1$... the total you get on this fine example is 23$... And question is as long as i'm the author and mostly my text is there.. where is the trick and why?

Earlier when whales were not too much about curation the situation was completely different, but now everything changes