What if I do NOT approve a pingback? Also a reblog question.
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I’ve searched support but I cannot find an answer to this:
What happens if I do not approve a pingback? Will the other blog still have my post on their site (a reblog)? Or will not approving the pingback comment stop the post from appearing on the other person’s blog?
Also, if I do not have the reblog button enabled, how are people still able to reblog my posts?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hello!
So, this article shows that a pingback itself is just the comment that’s created when you link to another blog post. Whether you approve the pingback or not just matters for your site, whether or not it will show in your comments.
If you don’t want pingbacks at all, you can turn them off globally here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#default-article-settings
If you want to turn them off on a post-by-post basis, see here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/
To turn off email notifications of comments (including pingbacks): http://en.support.wordpress.com/comment-notification-email/
By not enabling reblog, people can not directly reblog your articles with WordPress. However, as long as your site is public, you cannot prevent people from linking to it, as it is a public address. The only way to keep everything private and un-referencable is to set your site to private.
Someone may have more input, but I hope this helps!
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I have seen reblogs of my posts even when the reblog button is disabled. I’m not sure how this is being accomplished. Could it be “Press This”? Is that the same as reblogging?
Turning pingbacks off does what, though? Just stops me from seeing them on my blog?
By the way, I’m not trying to get rid of the pingbacks. I just wanted to know what the options actually controlled.
I was also not happy when I was reblogged on a brand new blog with no posts except mine. But I do understand I can’t stop that, apparently even with the reblog button disabled.
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Have you read this support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/reblogs/?
If there is a site hosted by wordpress.COM with nothing published on it but reblogs of your posts you could try using use the report blogs process https://en.support.wordpress.com/report-blogs/
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Thanks for that info. I did read the reblog support doc before.
I’m still a bit confused how a post with the reblog button disabled is still reblogged. This has happened a number of times.
I will hold off on reporting the new blog to see if additional posts of mine are reblogged there. It’s a brand new blog which, so far, consists of one post — something of mine.
Thanks again!
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Anyone can copy and paste to reblog any content from any public site with or without using the reblog button. It does not matter whether or not you disabled reblogging. Unless the site is private you cannot prevent reblogging.
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If someone is just copying and pasting, they’re just stealing content not ‘sharing’ it, aren’t they? If they don’t bother linking back, I mean…
I get that it’s a public site but ‘stealing’ content from others would be wrong… and in that case, I would report it. But that may not do any good. I’m not going to make my site private. To me, that seems like ‘punishment’ for me as I don’t want a private blog.
Anyway… I see what you’re saying. Thanks for replying!
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Do you understand that anyone con copy and paste a brief excerpt of your content on their site with an attribution link back to where the quote came from and that is perfectly legal? Doing that is not a copyright infringement.
Please read:
Copyright and Fair Use
https://en.support.wordpress.com/fair-use/Copyright and the DMCA
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Oh yes, I understand that. I just got off-topic a bit and was speaking of someone copying and pasting with no attribution.
Thanks!
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