The art of communication in the real world involves repeating oneself on a regular basis. A person who makes a notable discovery needs to repeat the discovery.
Even the success of HIVE involves a certain amount of repetition. For example, people drum messages about the importance of powering up HIVE on the first of every month.
New users need to be greeted when they join HIVE. The people who greet newbies write similar messages.
Since repeating things is a natural part of human communications, I think we should expect some repetition.
I draw the line at copying and pasting. I believe that the best way to repeat arguments is to write the repeated posts from scratch.
Interestingly, the act of writing the same post twice often provides the author with new insights on the topic. I find that whenever I rewrite an article, I gain new insights on the subject at hand.
Occasionally, HIVE authors have materials published on a different platform.
The best way to handle that situation is to write a post that paraphrases the article and then to link to the article.
This is also the best way to handle youtube and threespeak videos.
You have nailed it all down, I must say.
Repetition is quite a large part of the human nature. And since that is so, trying to act like repetition is like an abomination is too stiff a hold. What I mean is, to have a an ecosystem that thrives, the ecosystem needs to be made flexible.
Flexibility, in the sense that, most authors get new insights when the revisit an article (or idea) of theirs because, with time and experience, their perspectives change and they see in a different direction.
Honestly, I personally can not feel comfortable of letting my new insight to an idea, that I have once shared, to die down or lay to waste all because I'm trying to "not upset" the ecosystem.
But with the way you nailed it, I now know better. Rather than being worried about upsetting the ecosystem, I'd instead work in a manner that would bless the ecosystem; which is "to write the repeated posts from scratch," like you have said.
Taking this a step forward ... An expert is a person who concentrates a great deal of effort on a single area. An expert heart surgeon pretty much does nothing but hearts.
A person does not become an expert without repeating the same procedures over and over again.
I would not go to a surgeon who made a point of never operating on the same part of the body part twice. I would want a heart surgeon that has concentrated on hearts for years.
The insistence that HIVE should be free of repetition means that the platform intentionally excludes experts. True expert on any given subject will end up repeating the same basic principles over and over.
Experts can be real bores.
HIVE would have no room for thinkers like Euclid. Euclid's geometry had only five postulates. Yeah, the guy repeats the postulates to create all of the theorems of Geometry, but the guy really only had original material for five posts.
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You totally cracked me up with Euclidean geometry. And you are absolutely right.
Well, I guess it is what it is. Everything here on HIVE is quite subjective. Everyone will always have their opinions and their decisions. That's basically life...
I really love your approach to this matter. Quite brilliant, I must say.
comment below.Well exposed @yintercept and yeah, I agree with everything you've said here. As well as I agree with what @darth-azrael mentioned and highlighted in his
After all, ¿What the heck is "original/originality"?
It is not that most or everything of what we "know", most of what we "understand" and "talk/write about" from the world is based on things which we have already received from other people? Things we've already read, seen or heard previously from the brains of everyone else?
Hey! "original" not even my own banana. };)
Personally, I think that the only things that HIVE should guard against are copyright violations and direct copy and paste jobs.
BTW: Copyright laws are really odd.
Paraphrasing and restating ideas should be accepted.
Public domain images, creative commons images and stock images (provided the user paid the stock photography fee.)
👌🏻 giving a link to old post is good idea. Sometimes we want modifying our old post