I am sick and tired of reading the same freaking thing 20 times in one hour on my RSS subscription list. Just because you see Problogger, or Chow, or Shoe or Cow or any of the other big names write on “How to Use Social Media”, or some other topic does not mean you should immediately go to your blog and post the same damn thing. I can’t take it. Save me, please.
There are a few instances, where I admit, this is okay to almost okay. If they are promoting a new affiliate program, and you want to get some sign ups under you, go for it, I suppose. Chances are, they saw it at the big blog first though. Another reason is for any news. I deem this acceptable, because not everyone may see the bigger blogs post. That is it!
The reasons I’m so upset about this, is because you aren’t being original. If you want subscribers and amazing commenters and everything that comes with a great blog, you need original content. You need to be the first posting your ideas on the “use of flibble-bibble” (I made that word up) in your blog. No body, I especially, wants to read the same thing over, and over and over again in the same day, week and sometimes the month. I just don’t care to read the same thing more than once. It’s boring, repetitious, and even tedious to have to read through the same type of post twice.
I don’t care if you use it as a reminder, but remind me after I forget. If you wrote a kick ass post on how to monetize your blog in a new way, I probably remembered it. If you read this post, and you want to blog about, link to it and write some ideas about it, but please, like I keep saying, do not repost a reworded post from someone else. You look no better than a “spinner” in my eyes. (A spinner is someone who takes an article, changes a few words, and then reposts it.) You are breaking laws! Copyrights and plagiarism laws could almost be in place for that article you just almost rewrote!
I’ve just been upset about this after some things that have been going on around in the blogging world. I obviously have been reading the same article too many times on different blogs. Older blogs generally know better than to do this. I see a lot of noobs doin’ it, probably because they don’t know anything about their niche. I also got upset when I saw this done with one of my articles. He was even on my RSS Feed. He posted what would have been a follow up post to a pretty big guest post I did, but did not include a link to the original post. He ended up just reiterating the facts, so it almost felt like my work was plagiarized. I was furious and let him know in the comments that “Hmm… I think I just posted this same article on another blog…” It never got any response, but a proper blogger should know better than this.
So, to you noobs into this: No more! You won’t get my subscription, and you don’t deserve anyone else’s. Take a stand against these bloggers, my readers! Wipe them off your RSS Feed list to let them know what they are doing is boring, not sufficient, and completely wrong!
