How do I refuse content from Automattic?
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I just created a hidden blog for sharing recipes (kosher, gluten-free recipes) with a few friends. I’m not going to give you the url for that. You don’t need it for this.
As I set up the blog, the system asked me what the blog was going be about. I chose “food” as an option. The system told me that it would be adding “relevant content” to my blog to help me “get started out.”
Am I to understand that your developers have taken it upon themselves to set the system to automatically post content for us to our new blogs? If so, I don’t see this as being helpful, at all. I would see this as being incredibly presumptuous, and deeply problematic. Is the system going to be posting these articles under my name? If so, imagine the conversations I’m going to be having in my synagogue as somebody’s recipe for creamed bacon on toast, and everybody thinks that I posted that to a kosher cooking blog.
Really, not cool at all. Darned awkward, to be exact.
Not that this would be the only problem with such a concept, but it would certainly be a significant one. So, have I misunderstood? If not, how do I turn off this unwanted feature, and put an end to these unwanted creative contributions?
I know that this will be a hard idea for some of the millennials on the staff to understand, but I am not open to the possibility of collaborating with some random stranger on the staff who wants to shove his contributions into my blog. Such a feature, if I could not turn it off (and expect it to stay off) would be a deal breaker, totally unacceptable. My blog is my blog. I either have creative control over it or I don’t, and if I don’t that here, I’ll just move on. Or give up, if better online options don’t exist.
Having control over what is posted in my name is absolutely non-negotiable. I hope we’re all in agreement on this point, and if not, I’m going to be at least a little bit shocked.
One other thing: experience tells me that some “more progressive than thou” type will show up at this point and preach at me about my supposed need to be willing to eat “all kinds of food.” To which my response is “mind your own business, and start learning how to respect boundaries.”
Which maybe is the problem, this time? Are the developers failing to respect the boundaries set by the users?
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I chose “food” as an option. The system told me that it would be adding “relevant content” to my blog to help me “get started out.”
I’m curious. I’ve just created a “food” blog and didn’t see that. What “relevant content” has been added to your site? Bear in mind that as the owner of the site you can delete any placeholder pages/posts/images/demo theme stuff that may appear on your new site that is only there anyway to give you some idea of what is possible.
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So far, nothing, I’m glad to say, but so far, all I’ve posted is a hand written “hello, tiny private world” post.
“Bear in mind that as the owner of the site you can delete any placeholder pages/posts/images/demo theme stuff”
That’s not what I’m worried about. Please re-read my post. Why I was concerned about is what might appear later. When I started this thread, my blog was just a few minutes old. If the system is going to insert any content, it hasn’t had much time to do so, yet.
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Hi there,
Placeholder content is added to your site at the moment the site is created. It’s not added in afterwards once you’ve already started working on your site, so if you’re not seeing that content, it has not been added to your site.
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