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It's really a good post but concerning my own case. If you check most of my post on natural medicine concerning herbs,with due respect you will observe that I always mentioned my Dad because when he was alive , he's someone that so much believed in natural herbs and he knew about it,he lived in the village for about 34years before he came to city to settle down and got married. So some of these herbs,I gained much of the experience from him. There were times that he will take me along with him to a bush with a sack in my hand while he would be cutting the part of trees and told me their uses for different ailments. Though no evidence on that but that's just the truth. With due respect,What are we going to do about or do I need to really back up my write up again with google when the personal experience is there or what? Thanks! I STAND TO BE CORRECTED.🤝
@naturalmedicine have in the past written invaluable guides with the pure intention of helping users such as how to convert our crypto last year during Covid lockdowns; the intention of this blog clearly has been written to help folk who don't know how to quote info they've sourced off the web so it. Personal experience is a whole different ball game and this blog certainly is not aimed at users who share that!
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Noted!
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Awesome advice for quoting sources @naturalmedicine! Thank you, I've cross-posted it to the Silver Bloggers.
This is fantastic! Thanks!
Gracias por la información me es de mucha utilidad.
awesome resource for those that don't know how it works, I used to be one of them once haha..
hello, I think the suggestion is very good, we have to be sure of what we are going to talk about in the publications, educate ourselves well and not make a copy and paste of the information, and we must keep in mind that we are giving this information to be applied or consumed in people. blessings.
Excellent indications @naturalmedicine on how to invoke references. It is a fundamental rule to give credit to the authors and lead the reader to delve deeper into the referenced topic. The above enhances what is written. As we are told, "go to the source". Thank you.
Thanks for sharing this information.
I agree, most of us are common bloggers even if some of us know about our topic. So I suggest we should either resource properly or write a disclaimer. Thanks for the guidelines.
Hello, I'm new here, it's my first time of posting in this community, I didn't source for any of the information and it was an act of ignorance, I wrote my article based on what I've been taught and out of self experience, I hope I won't be banned.
Please, I have taken note and I won't do it again.
Muy interesante para todos los que somos parte de esta comunidad
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Excelente!!! Gracias.
Thank you for sharing.. this is really helpful