Well this 'know-it-all' pointed out that if he chooses to use his work elsewhere he should make sure to say so ...something that should have been explained to him instead of tossing the plagiarism term in like he was committing theft of content when all he didn't do was state where it was first published. It's his content to use as he wishes.
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While it may be best practice to acknowledge where your content was originally published, as long as it is YOUR content you should be able to use it how you please, with or without acknowledgement of previous use. I mean even by posting to the hive blockchain, your post is published on many websites.
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.