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RE: 'Attention @spaminator, @blocktrades & HIVE members - Please Forgive My Ignorance'

in #thealliance3 years ago (edited)

I agree. The main benefit of stating a piece has been posted elsewhere is to avoid being accused of plagiarism. Your content is yours to crosspost/syndicate where you choose to.

The term 'self-plagiarism' is irrelevant here on a blogging platform. It's relevant in academia and research where using your previous content/arguments without clarity that you're recycling content is considered to be a serious breach of trust.

Attempting to apply the word here would mean that anytime a person puts a post up that has any language previously used in one of their posts without referencing the post they would be self-plagiarizing. That would apply to all those posts that have repeated parts along with updated information. That gets pretty silly, pretty quickly in a blogging situation.