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'.
RE: Targeted on steemit? This should not be happening in the first place.