It was that way for a long time but a month or two ago Jon suggested I changed it. He pointed out that people have an incentive to post to the forums first, then go import to the database, in order to get a 50% increase in acorn production. It was a good point so I changed it. You are now only awarded when you import someone else's photo. If it's your own photo, you should have posted it to the database first, then post to the forum using the db_image tag.