ban blogs that only reblog content
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I have not been overly concerned about this; however I have noticed that such blogs are useless even if one follows and likes them. I perhaps have too many followers now to investigate this too closely: however, when they come to my attention, I have been reporting them. I do notice that the most egregious of them do get banned or limited in some way after a few months.
I also have used the reblog function; and I also do not like the way it looks, the way it removes formatting, the way there is little control of how it looks. I have, rather taken to using the “Blog this” control instead. The result looks much more aesthetically balanced and is completely customisable. Still, there are occations wherein I use the reblog simply because it is available in the reader, and I can type a short comment. I have three blogs and limit my reblogs and such to one only.
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Oh dearie me.
I have a reblog blog. Actually, I have two reblog blogs now, because I realised one of my ‘normal’ blogs had morphed into a reblog blog due to poor state-of-mind leading to diminished writing ability.
The reblog blog is purely for sharing stuff from WP that doesn’t fit into any of my other blog categories because there are tons of awesome posts out there on WP that deserve a far wider audience than they already have. The other blog started out as sociology and social policy oriented blog to catalogue stuff that I found during my research for my degree of the same subjects. However, due to the dodgy mental health issues, the degree’s been failed, but the stuff that’s being put on there is still based around those subjects, and so just yesterday I decided to officially rebrand it as a reblog blog for that subject material.
Why do I reblog? Well it’s certainly not to drive people my way, because all my way does is point out everyone else who’s managing to write so much better than me. It’s not about me as a blogger, but about those blogs I reblog. When I share something through a reblog, people who browse my interests/blogs/etc. are going to find those other bloggers.
I’m confused as to why so many of you are so against these things, because all they do is point a wider audience to the reblogged posts.
But yeah, yay for taking action on the truly spammy type.
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Because WordPress.com is a home for original blogging, not like Tumblr, which is an aggregator. We assume that anyone participating in the community to the extent of having a blog here will put their original thoughts on the line. Having a blog which consists solely of reblogs denigrates the platform to the level of a filing cabinet.
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I have one, on Tumblr. Since reblog-only blogs don’t actually get wider exposure for existing posts (thanks to staff disabling the normal SEO-friendly features) there really isn’t any point to them other than storage, and if storage is the only function, it’s appropriate for them to be Private. In fact, I wish I could make my Tumblr private.
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“Since reblog-only blogs don’t actually get wider exposure for existing posts“
They don’t?
“And a filing cabinet filled with other people’s stuff. :)“
*hands over funniest accurate comment award*
“We assume“
Aaah, see, now that’s your problem right there.
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LOL.. Well.. I am very Glad to have found this sooo quickly after Joining.. I have 2 friends that use this site and I had a moment of… “Gosh” I need to start posting my thoughts… Today.. one of those friends posted something that was totally in line with my current mindset.. I copy/pasted to my site… like a journal entry in my mind.. then read a couple more of her recent post and tried to post.. or re-post and HATED the way it looked.. a link that said nothing.. meant nothing to me.. so just commented to her asking How do I re-post??
Personally I am on here for Me.. If I get readers I would be surprised
I am at a point where I feel a Need to write my thoughts. and sharing someone’s writing with myself that fits my current mindset Seemed Fitting ;))But I will sure be careful about sharing someone’s work work I enjoyed from now on
Thanks.. Newbee
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