Reblogging
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@panag, thanks for that heads up! In reading the multiple pages here I guess I must have just missed that the first time so yes THANK YOU.
@Tess…I agree that is a great Idea! and thank you again Panag for expanding on it and giving us back a bit more control again.
It is nice to see that there are others who are dedicated to protecting the users here when WP refuses to, but it is also very sad that we are being put in that position to start with. But hey….it is what it is right? So if that means you have to resort to fighting fire with fire…I will bring the Marshmellows!
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@gruebler : it’s not about you, its about the misuse of the tool. Think twitters could not be retweeted. Then would this much of traffic be generated ? No. But if there was no retweet feature, then couldn’t we manually retweet some content ? yes we could. Both ways we could we could make a retweet, but making a retweet feature extends the reach of the retweeting. Another example, if wordpress.com introduces graphical CSS editor, it would be much more used than now, but note that in both the case the same thing is being done, ie, editing CSS. So the tool introduced increase the domain of people using them.
But wordpress.com is a very good blogging service, and not a crappy “social” networking site, where there is no original content. The main thing is about the encouragement a certain group would get to reblog.
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check out the results of reblogging :
search i google with the below string
"21 Realistic X-Rays and Skeletons of Fictional Characters"
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I have a new blog here and am totally against this reblogging. I thought duplicate work was frowned upon by search engines, and how boring is it going to be when people search for something and get a load of blogs with the same content. I’m sure WordPress will fall out of favour with Google in a few months time when all they get is a monotonous flow of repetition. I can’t believe someone actually thought up this idea, and that they actually think EVERYONE likes to reblog. Count me out. It is giving people the wrong idea, by allowing them to plagiarise. WordPress are saying “yes, it’s ok to take others’ work without their permission”..well, IT’S NOT OK!! And how are the DMCA (can’t remember if that’s the correct department initials, sorry if it’s wrong) going to cope with all the complaints of plagiarism?
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@phoxis So what can we see from the results? First, re-re-blogging isn’t a big issue in this particular case. Mostly the link to the original post is provided
A serious problem is that the original post’s title is taken as the new post’s title and in some themes it in fact appears as if the reblogger is the author of the reblogged content.
I would suggest do make the following modifications to reblogging:
– Add the original post title as a <h2> headline (preferrably with a link) within the blockquote
– Add the original authors name (by <author>) in the second line before the actual reblogged content starts. -
I usually don’t like closing threads, but there seems to be a spiral of misinformation going on here. People are confusing our feature, which drives traffic to your blog, increases engagement, and builds your community, with spammers who leech off the internet.
I would like everyone to try out this feature for two weeks. See if your blog disappears from Google, if aliens come and attack you, if your traffic goes up, down, or stays the same. Reblog a few posts and see what it looks like. Like a few things. In two weeks I’m happy to have a discussion with everyone on their concerns, ideas, bugs, and hugs, but we really need people to actually use and comprehend the feature first!
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