My original vision for #showcase-sunday involved reworking old content into something new. I have no clue why folks were simply re-posting but when I wrote that post describing my vision I did also say I'm not here to tell people how to run their blogs. There's also a lighthearted line in the post describing the vision I had stating "you're doing it wrong if you're just doing it to be lazy."
One of my approaches was to combine several old posts from a series I had created over time, plus adding commentary. At least two of those posts had over 10000 words once I was finished with them. A couple Showcase Sunday posts were ten or eleven posts combined into one, plus commentary.
I mentioned how some folks simply post one picture, no words, and call that a post, consistently. I suggested for showcase sunday something like, "Why not try a different approach? Take many of your favorite or best photos from the past, add some commentary, and showcase your talents?"
It was meant to be a highlight reel of sorts but at the same time I was hoping folks would be creative with their own approach.
There's also a huge difference between spamming and running a rerun. As a responsible content creator, you own your content and are allowed to do whatever you want with it. If you're an irresponsible content creator, you will repost the same nonsense nobody gave a shit about over and over, annoy your following, alienate everyone else, and end up going in reverse instead of advancing.
This is how I see it. I have enough content to repost 3x daily for nearly 10 years - but why would I do that?
The problem I see with a bot that is going to be somewhat insensitive to reasoning is, it will punish legitimate reposts in the same way as spam reposts.
BTW, The reason that I don't create a compilation is that each is so long adding a couple would become a novel :) I wouldn't mind doing some photography compilations though - but even then, I have never been the one-photo kind of person, as I see that the photos add to the words, not the other way around for my content.
What I have found through many of the reposts is that new followers connect with it as if it is fresh content and as long as it is decent, I don't mind that. It is kind of like discovering a great book from a long dead author... I am not dead yet though
Every time I curated that tag on Sundays, the content was always new to me. That was part of the point as well. I could put eleven posts into one post, someone comes along, all eleven are new to them. Sure, it's a long post, but at the same time, I pointed out how Sundays were typically slow and meant for relaxing anyway.
If a legit content creator is reworking old content into something new or running a rerun, how is that any different than a Youtuber creating a "best of" video? It's not. Many of the good ones run a clip show. Joe Rogan does it every week. Do we hear a song on the radio only once? Do we not see reruns on TV? Is that spam?
This #Showcase-Sunday initiative was only meant for responsible content creators. People who actually know a little bit about the industry. Sometimes I wonder if the content police know about the industry they police. I'm happy they combat spam. Reworked content and responsible reruns are not spam. I too have hundreds of posts I could be reposting irresponsibly. Why am I not doing that? Because it's fucking stupid. There's far more to this content creation life than posting and waiting for these goddamn rewards. Legit creators are not reward farmers even though some folks around here seem to think we're all amateurs and wouldn't be able to earn anywhere else doing what we do and we're only here to get daily visits from the crypto fairy who will sprinkle us with joy!
exactly! :D
I think a very large audience would sort this out without much fuss, as an audience will quickly tune out from only rehashed or reposted nonsense, unless it is classic material - which depends on audience opinion anyway.
I see it as repost at your own peril as your audience will judge you. However, this is Hive and there are many ways to scam, so I am glad that someone is keeping an eye out. Again, perhaps a large audience would make their job easier.
My most recent one, which was two weeks ago, includes two old posts that ran back to back. It has somewhere around 1000 words and at least half of which was new commentary describing what I was actually doing. It was like a making of article in a way; a step behind the scenes. Remember watching movies, then watching the movie with commentary from the director, producers, cast? That's using the same content twice. It's commonplace in this world.
Artists and photographers can use their images more than once. I've seen the same damn images being used in memes countless times, nobody calls that spam. I've seen the same damn Pixabay images being used all over the place in numerous blogs, nobody calls that spam. I made my own damn image database with thousands of images that's free for me to use, so I will use it.
Bottom line: We're allowed to use our work more than once. The folks doing it irresponsibly are only shooting themselves in the foot. It's not my job to hold their hands and teach them how to run a blog/vlog or anything responsibly either.
I think this is something relevant too. I think you see words as supporting your images, I see my images as supporting my words.
It goes both ways.
And see? I fucked up the tag this week, another reason why tag exclusions won't work :D
And see? I fucked up the tag this week, another reason why tag exclusions won't work :D
You also reposted this comment! BOOOOOOOOO! Burn the witch!
Accidents happen. Mistakes are made. Plenty of people screwed up that tag. #showcase-sunday.
I shoud start my own - #shitshow-sunday
I already did a shitshow for #showcase-sunday awhile back. I think rambled for about 500 words, then converted the post into what appears to be gibberish that turned out to be an actual language when translated. No idea how I pulled that off. Then the post turned into a joke about how to prepare a banana, for something.
I wonder if it would be considered "spam" if I located the endless supply of jokes I've written in posts and comments, put it all into one post, then published it. A comedian travels around telling the same jokes countless times. It's the same set over and over. Is that spam too?
Not if they are funny :D
They don't know until they try, then get a reaction.
I'll bring the flame thrower. How dare this user presume to post the same comment twice. Lol.
I'll bring the marshmallows.
Lol...I'll bring my guitar and we can sing some songs...Have a rollicking old time.
Better learn how to play this one since that's all I want to listen to these days.
I can do that!
What a great song and I love the video. I'm a huge fan of country music so this is my style. The perfect song to play at the burning. Lol.