A few of you have sent me e-mails on a post I made yesterday on the stealing of content. I wanted to clarify something. We encourage those of you that like our material to re-post anything you think worthy. 99% of all post that get transplanted to other sites carry the proper link back to the source story here on Geek News Central. We in no way have a problem with that. We only have a problem when someone leeches an article and claims it to be their own.
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I review approx 400 news feeds everyday as do a lot of other bloggers. The majority of the time we get the info directly from the source. The Chernobyl post was originally seen on daypop who re-directs you to the original story from the aggreator. We probably should put both sources in that instance but if the link to Daypop is going to re-direct you in the first place to the corresponding article then we don’t.
This all seems a bit hypocritical to me. I’ve seen plenty of posts made here that have no link to where you found them first – look at the Chernobyl post below. It’s been posted already on a lot of sites – but you didn’t link to where you found it from or give credit. Where did you see it first? where you just looking around angelfire sites and coincidentally stumbled upon the same meme making headlines elsewhere?
I’m not trying to troll, but simply state that if you’re going to complain about even 1% of posts not coming back to an article you wrote, shouldn’t you do the same with all of your posts?