If it's not about the money, why do you not decline payout? Still, doing that doesn't give you any right to copy paste articles that you haven't written. You're stealing other people's content.
Since this platform is decentralized, there have to be these so-called cops to stop people from you doing these kinds of things.
Write original articles, don't go around taking others'.
How is it stealing if i'm citing the actual source? I'm not claiming authorship in any way. From what i can tell, there is no way to decline payout.
When you create a post, you can decline the payout in the bottom right corner.
Now back to the main point. What you're saying now is kind of like "How is it stealing if I make it clear where I stole it from?". I suppose I should just go steal a bike now... according to your logic, it's not stealing if I let the police know where I stole it from.